Building lasting financial protection: The enduring legacy of the global partnership on disaster risk financing analytics

This report describes the Global Partnership on Disaster Risk Financing Analytics (DRF Analytics), a five-year initiative launched in 2016, managed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), and implemented by the World Bank’s Disaster Risk Financing Program. Supported by a €6 million investment from the European Commission, the Partnership developed three generic analytics tools to help governments move from reactive disaster responses to proactive financial preparedness. The tools—covering risk assessment, financing strategy design, and crisis response planning—were designed as adaptable, scalable software solutions for use in over thirty countries with diverse hazard profiles, including Albania, Fiji, Kenya, Morocco, Philippines, Serbia, and Vietnam. The tools are based on catastrophe risk data, government expenditure patterns, and DRF instruments, and their methodology has since been embedded in the World Bank’s Crisis Preparedness and Response Toolkit and successor programs.

The report finds that these tools have delivered sustainable impact, continuing to be actively used and adapted in nearly 20 new country contexts even after the program’s closure in 2020. Examples include diagnostics for Senegal and Zambia, which have guided government strategies and produced significant fiscal savings compared to reactive approaches. The tools enabled Jamaica to rapidly mobilize layered financial protection in response to Hurricane Melissa, demonstrating operational viability across geographies and disaster types. The authors recommend continued investment in replicable global public goods, highlighting that the risk layering methodology now underpins disaster risk financing in dozens of countries and has proven essential for proactive risk management, especially in low- and middle-income nations facing intensifying climate hazards and fiscal vulnerabilities.