Preparedness
The knowledge and capacities developed by governments, response and recovery organisations, communities, and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to and recover from the impacts of likely, imminent or current crises. Preparedness can be distinguished between financial preparedness (e.g. the creation of budgetary or financial mechanisms to respond to a particular type of crisis) and delivery system preparedness (e.g. investments in enabling social protection systems to be able to scale up rapidly following a crisis) (the Centre, based on UNISDR 2016).
This report captures and builds on learning from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) anticipatory action pilot in Nepal.
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This guidance note is intended as a common framework to support practical approaches to meaningful accountability across the sector.
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Process Learning For Disaster Risk Financing
This guidance document offers practical steps on how to capture lessons from DRF initiatives.
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This brief reviews the evidence on the welfare impacts of proactive approaches to setting up finance for disaster response.
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Policies and actions to reduce disaster risks, manage impacts and strengthen resilience.
Covariate shocks
Shocks affecting many households at once where losses are shared across the same community.
Fragility
High exposure to risk combined with weak capacity to cope, often leading to crisis.
Index
A measurable indicator used to estimate losses and trigger financial payouts.
Attachment point
The loss level above which a reinsurer begins paying under a reinsurance agreement.
Risk profile
Underlying risks that an organisation or country is exposed to and the extent to which they are mitigated by pre-arranged finance.
