Glossary

Resilience

The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management (UNISDR 2016).

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This report on Mali provides an in-depth analysis of the country’s social protection and disaster risk financing landscape to inform future programme design.

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other key terms

Vulnerability

Conditions that increase how severely people or communities are affected by hazards.

Indemnity insurance

Insurance that pays based on assessed losses after damage to a specific asset.

Preparedness

Skills, systems and resources developed to respond effectively to likely future crises.

Sustainable development

Meeting today’s needs without limiting future generations’ ability to meet theirs.

Risk transfer

When disaster risk is shifted to insurers or capital markets.

Trigger

A predefined threshold that activates payments or actions within risk financing mechanisms.