Pandemic
This paper outlines key trends of financial flows toward outbreak response and identifies relevant emerging initiatives.
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This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters.
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This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters.
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This cross-country synthesis study calculates what the opportunity cost of budget reallocations was during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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This report looks at key lessons from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) first anticipatory action (AA) pilot for drought in Somalia.
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This research has highlighted the flaws in the current system which is not always able to support response where need is greatest.
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This discussion paper examines the unequal impacts of the pandemic across different groups.
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This paper summarises the different shocks created by the global Covid-19 crisis.
Read moreSocial protection
Policies and programmes designed to reduce and prevent poverty and vulnerability throughout the life cycle.
Basis risk
The gap between measured indicators and real losses causing payouts to differ from actual damage.
International development financing
Public funding flows supporting development objectives in lower income countries.
Other official flows (OOF)
Public funding supporting development that does not meet official aid definitions.
Risk retention
When governments retain and finance disaster costs themselves.
Attachment point
The loss level above which a reinsurer begins paying under a reinsurance agreement.
