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).
Disaster risk management
Policies and actions to reduce disaster risks, manage impacts and strengthen resilience.
Risk profile
Underlying risks that an organisation or country is exposed to and the extent to which they are mitigated by pre-arranged finance.
International crisis financing system
The network of global organisations funding crisis prevention, preparedness and response.
Pre-arranged financing
Financing approved before crises that is released automatically when agreed triggers are met.
Disaster risk financing
Financial arrangements made in advance to pay for disaster prevention, response and recovery.
Fragility
High exposure to risk combined with weak capacity to cope, often leading to crisis.
