Financing DRR

Smart thermostats and connected devices are helping some utilities reduce strain on the grid.

This policy brief provides a first entry point for governments who have endorsed or are implementing aspects of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) to identify potential financial resources they can access, and how to secure them.

The objective of this report is to summarize Zambia’s financial preparedness to crises and disasters at the sovereign, firm, and household levels. In this context, the focus is on the fiscal implications of the emergency response to shocks for the GRZ.

This report presents updated findings from WFP’s Return on Investment (ROI) for Preparedness study, demonstrating the value of pre-shock investments in strengthening emergency response.

This strategy aims to strengthen national and county governments’ financial capacity to manage disaster risks across the DRM continuum, protect vulnerable groups, safeguard development gains, build resilience, and maintain fiscal stability.

This report presents a comparative synthesis of how stakeholders in three Caribbean Small Island Developing States — Belize, Grenada, and Jamaica — value the core attributes of pre-arranged financing (PAF) for sovereign disaster risk.

This report presents the first cross-country study to use a structured simulation to elicit how policymakers in five African countries value the core attributes of pre-arranged financing (PAF) systems for disaster response.