Risk layering
Using different financial instruments for different disaster frequencies.
This report offers an in-depth assessment of pre-arranged financing tools using seven key criteria for ensuring pre-arranged financing reduces the human and financial costs of disasters
Read moreHazard
A natural or human process that can cause injury, damage or disruption.
Early warning system
Systems that monitor hazards and share information early, so people can act in time.
Vulnerability
Conditions that increase how severely people or communities are affected by hazards.
Risk profile
Underlying risks that an organisation or country is exposed to and the extent to which they are mitigated by pre-arranged finance.
Disaster risk finance diagnostic
An analytical assessment of a country’s disaster risk profile.
Index
A measurable indicator used to estimate losses and trigger financial payouts.
