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FINANCING ADAPTIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION IN CHAD: DISASTER RISK FINANCE DIAGNOSTIC
As part of the Centre for Disaster Protection’s support to the World Bank Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programme (SASPP), the UK-funded Sahel Shock Response Programme seeks to develop a baseline of in-depth analysis on the social protection and disaster risk financing (DRF) landscape in the Sahel region. This is the third in a series of diagnostic reports, focusing specifically on Chad, aimed at informing the design and programming of the Centre’s support to the SASPP.
OPPORTUNITY COST OF COVID-19 BUDGET REALLOCATIONS: CROSS-COUNTRY SYNTHESIS
This cross-country synthesis study draws from four country studies, focusing on Albania, Ethiopia, Pakistan and South Africa, to calculate what the opportunity cost of budget reallocations was during the covid-19 pandemic. The research on which this synthesis is based took an exploratory approach to the methodology applied in each country to enable readers to learn from the process as much as from the results.
MANAGING THE FINANCIAL COST OF DISASTERS
Lessons for IDA from the UK Government’s approach to explicit contingent liabilities. This paper draws on learning from the UK’s Contingent Liability Approval Framework to consider how IDA could better support the systematic identification and management of contingent disaster liabilities for its client countries.