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 moreContingent liabilities
Possible financial obligations that only become real if specific future events occur.
Other official flows (OOF)
Public funding supporting development that does not meet official aid definitions.
Trigger
A predefined threshold that activates payments or actions within risk financing mechanisms.
Disaster risk management
Policies and actions to reduce disaster risks, manage impacts and strengthen resilience.
Climate resilient debt clause or 'debt pause clause'
A provision in sovereign debt contracts that enables the borrower to temporarily stop repaying debt service for a pre-agreed period when a predefined event occurs.
Anticipatory Action
Actions taken before a crisis hits to prevent or reduce potential disaster impacts prior to a shock or before acute impacts are felt.
