Assessing Value For Money In Pre-Arranged Financing For Disasters: A Practical Framework
This guidance note has been developed to help the increasing number of countries and organisations that are considering or using pre-arranged financing instruments but are unsure how to assess their value for money (VfM). This note aims to provide the reader with an overview of VfM and how it relates to pre-arranged financing. It also presents a flexible process framework the Centre has developed to conduct VfM analysis.
Key Findings
Key Terms Used In This Report
Possible financial obligations that only become real if specific future events occur.
An analytical assessment of a country’s disaster risk profile.
Underlying risks that an organisation or country is exposed to and the extent to which they are mitigated by pre-arranged finance.
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