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

Social protection

Policies and programmes designed to reduce and prevent poverty and vulnerability throughout the life cycle.

International premium support

Premium support is international funding to pay for insurance premiums.

Vulnerability

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

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.

Trigger

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

Crisis financing

Funding designed to prevent, prepare for and respond to crises before and after they occur.