Financing DRR

Bangladesh is building flood risk insurance and a Community Protection Fund using existing anticipatory action systems. The initiative uses established triggers, beneficiary registries and delivery networks, while adapting them for post-flood payouts.

Kenya’s new risk financing strategy funds disaster prevention as well as recovery, breaking with a model most of the field still follows.

This report examines how national disaster risk management policies integrate disaster financing and residual risk, finding weak practical links and recommending improved coordination, clearer risk metrics, costings, and joint financing strategies.

In the aftermath of a disaster, affected areas are trapped in a severe information vacuum. When roads are damaged and communications fail, entering the disaster zone and conducting onsite surveys doesn't give an tell what help is necessary and where.

Third season of Counter Crisis bridges the distance people closest to a disaster and decision makers about the money to respond. In each episode, the policymakers and the people living with their decisions are in the same conversation for the first time.

This research briefing analyzes how the intensifying El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole will heighten drought and inflation risks in Africa by 2026/27, impacting food prices and regional economies; it recommends robust disaster risk management measures.

The first DRRP Technical Working Group on Scaling Investment in Resilience, held in Brussels on 2 June 2026, brought Programme partners together to explore how resilience investment can be strengthened and scaled across OACPS regions.

This report examines Nigeria’s “double cost crunch” from climate impacts and the low-carbon transition, highlighting pressures on growth, public finances and investment and recommending adaptation, resilient infrastructure and energy diversification.

Report examines Indonesia’s “double cost crunch” from climate impacts and the low-carbon transition, finding that delayed action can increase damages and financing pressures and recommending early investment, adaptation and international climate finance.

This report examines India’s “double cost crunch” from climate damages and the low-carbon transition, finding that delayed mitigation intensifies economic pressures and that immediate climate action brings greater long-term benefits.

When disasters strike in Guinea-Bissau, their effects can linger long after the immediate danger has passed. How quickly the government responds can shape how well lives are protected and how soon services, livelihoods, and communities recover.

It was May 2019, and I was in a large events hall in Goma — a venue built for social gatherings of the community. We weren’t there to celebrate. We were responding to what was then the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record. With spreadsheets.

On addressing heat stress, Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment Janil Puthucheary said MSE has set up a new office to spearhead the Republic’s efforts in this area.

This policy brief explores the role of micro-disaster risk finance in helping close protection gaps and strengthen resilience across the region. Disaster-related damage in Emerging Asia reached USD 685 billion between 2010 and 2024.

This report shows how adaptive systems that respond to climate shocks can increase resilience for women and marginalised communities.

This report assesses 45 nature-based infrastructure projects in 29 countries, finding a median benefit-cost ratio of 3.21 and 38% IRR, and recommends reforms to planning, finance, and policy to elevate NBI alongside traditional infrastructure options.

El Niño conditions have been observed in the tropical Pacific since June 2026, with forecasts indicating further strengthening through the end of 2026 and into early 2027, potentially making it one of the most intense events in decades.

A decade after the idea took shape, Forest Resilience Bonds are helping partners finance and fund projects across the western U.S., reducing wildfire risk while enhancing the water supply and supporting local jobs.

This study examines the anticipatory action (AA) activations implemented before the 2025 Pakistan Floods and documents implementation experiences, operational learning, and lessons from these activations.

This policy brief describes economic risks and adaptation opportunities for the UK in relation to agriculture, flood and coastal management, health and labour productivity.

This report presents a scalable, data-driven methodology to help North Macedonia transition from reactive crisis management to proactive risk reduction and investment planning.

This study explores the rationalities that have competed in shaping finance for loss and damage toward specific ends, and how the fund is designed as a result.

Nepal plans to use a new study linking climate change to the deadly floods last month as the basis of a financial request from a United Nations fund.

Drawing on experience from Armenia, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal, these lessons explain how strategic climate diagnostics can identify priority risks and how economic, fiscal, and financial analysis can build the case for investment.

This guidance note provides a framework for evaluating whether climate and disaster risk models are fit for climate and disaster risk financing decisions, covering model transparency, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, loss and uncertainty assessment.

Subsidised power is tackling energy poverty and health risks for some of northern Mexico’s most vulnerable city dwellers.

Study assessing the exposure of Brazil’s Social Assistance Reference Centers (CRAS) to flood and landslide risks. By integrating IDCRAS and BATER data, it identifies vulnerable facilities and supports preparedness, contingency planning and DRR.

Vermont recognized the ongoing flood exposure facing the state with the passing of July 10, a now-infamous date for Vermont.

The agreement will allow Seychelles to rapidly access funds for household cash transfers following climate shocks such as floods, landslides and tsunamis, with the ASP acting as the delivery channel for these transfers to affected individuals and families

During a 100-year geomagnetic storm, 3.5 million people and 91,000 businesses are predicted to lose power, with daily economic losses of $1.22 billion.