Climate change jeopardizes socioeconomic stability, and sets back efforts at development.
The increasing frequency and severity of climate-change-driven disasters threaten lives and …

This paper proposes a framework for ex ante evaluation of sovereign disaster risk finance
instruments available to governments for funding disaster losses. The framework can be …

Insurance has an important role to play in disaster and climate risk management. This role is
well-recognised in terms of response and recovery, where the rapid and predictable pay-out …

Executive summary 1 For a more detailed description of the methodology, see Annexes 1–3.
This paper does not analyse original data or conduct meta-analysis, but future research may …

The present study formulated a satellite-based rainfall insurance product (SRIP) at sub-
seasonal scale during 2015–2020 by integrating meteorological, geophysical and …

How do disaster victims finance the rebuilding of their physical space? Access to financial
resources is essential to the restoration of the built environment post-disaster. Yet, the …

Making insurance by the recipient compulsory–the laws of some countries establish this
obligation–is an incentive for recipients to take measures for mitigating losses (thereby …

Climate change jeopardizes socioeconomic stability, and sets back efforts at development.
The increasing frequency and severity of climate-change-driven disasters threaten lives and …

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) was established by the African Union (AU) in 2012 as an
Africanowned, index-based weather risk insurance pool and early response mechanism that …