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Jamaica built a disaster risk financing system that worked. So why don't other countries copy it?

As climate shocks accelerate, Jordan’s challenge is no longer whether support exists, but whether it can move fast enough to those who most depend on it.

This blog explains how The Gambia’s disaster risk diagnostic helped the country move towards better protection.

The Centre for Disaster Protection’s flagship report goes further than ever before, read our comprehensive picture of how PAF is working at a global level.

Debt is seen as a symbol of injustice. Jamaica’s response to Hurricane Melissa suggests that, deployed deliberately and in advance, it can steady an economy in the storm.

Too often, pre-arranged funding tools for disasters are created to reflect the preferences of financial providers rather than the priorities of the governments that use them.