Prevention
Activities and measures to avoid existing and new crisis risks, including mitigation activities that lessen or minimise the adverse impacts of a hazardous event without fully avoiding the impacts (the Centre, based on UNISDR 2016).
Total crisis financing
Development funding focused mainly on crisis prevention, preparedness and response activities.
Adaptive social protection
Social protection systems that adjust to shocks, helping vulnerable people prepare, cope and recover over time.
Preparedness
Skills, systems and resources developed to respond effectively to likely future crises.
Vulnerability
Conditions that increase how severely people or communities are affected by hazards.
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.
Disaster risk finance diagnostic
An analytical assessment of a country’s disaster risk profile.
