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Displaying 15 of about 831 resultsThis paper assesses the factors that influence willingness to enroll for crop insurance among farmers in irrigated and rainfed farming system in the drought-prone North Central Province of Sri Lanka using a logistic regression model. The study sample consisted of 149 irrigated farmers and 51 rainfed farmers selected randomly. Regression results show tha…
This factsheet provides an insight into how this initiative strengthens the capacity of local authorities and pasture communities to manage pastures effectively, protecting vulnerable households with livestock from climate-related shocks while bolstering resilience in the face of climate-related challenges. Low income and food-insecure households i…
Climate resilience and adaptation are intrinsically linked to development. This makes it challenging to accurately estimate adaptation finance in development operations. In response to this challenge, the joint MDB Working Group on Climate Finance Tracking developed a common adaptation finance tracking methodology in 2012. This common methodology has be…
In this Perspective, the authors characterize the market for landslide insurance prior to and following the 2015 Alaska landslide and describe four approaches that stakeholders might consider to make landslide coverage more available.Landslides pose a serious risk to lives and property in Sitka and other parts of Southeast Alaska. Although landslide ins…
This note intends to shift the discussion on pandemic and epidemic risk finance to a practical approach about the benefits of applying a disaster risk finance (DRF) lens to new financial mechanisms as they are developed and deployed. It outlines key trends of financial flows toward outbreak response and identifies relevant emerging initiatives and oppor…
The report focuses on the intersection between DRF and social protection in Burkina Faso, and provides an overview of: 1. The main disaster events resulting in significant impacts over the past 20 years. 2. Existing legislation, institutional arrangements and government programmes to deliver and finance disaster preparedness, disaster response and socia…
This study aims to provide an approach for assessing flood insurance in a context of low previous exposure to such products, to allow for a better consideration of the research context. Therefore, a parameter selection framework is provided and machine learning and deep learning models are applied to selected parameters from an existing household survey…
This note summarizes the Governemnt of Malawi's (GoM’s) process for establishing a risk insurance mechanism and presents key results and lessons learned. Using Disaster Risk Financing to Build Adaptive Social Protection in Malawi has been prepared by the Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice’s Crisis, and Disaster Risk Finance t…
This working paper seeks to support the emerging awareness that the DRF sector needs to better understand and implement accountability—and specifically accountability to the at-risk people it exists to benefit. It aims to begin to fill the evident gap in thinking about accountability, as well as the evidence gap documenting where and how it is, and coul…
In this publication researchers examined rural insurance in Brazil, analyzing the coverage of this financial instrument for soybeans, the main insured crop. Regions with higher risk exposure, and the distribution of rural insurance in Brazilian regions were also mapped. Researchers also investigated the most relevant climate variables to explain policy…
In this brief, the World Food Programme (WFP) is introducing its flagship integrated climate-risk management approach, the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4), to address both the climatic and non-climatic drivers of vulnerability in Haiti.
WFP Haiti is combining a set of integrated risk management strategies, including access to microinsurance, as wel…
This report examines the role of catastrophe risk insurance programmes (i.e. loss-sharing arrangements within the insurance sector and often in partnership with governments) in broadening the availability of affordable insurance coverage for catastrophe risks and limiting risks to public finances.
The financial management of catastrophe risks presents…
This report provides a framework for how insurance for climate-related disasters can be made more inclusive in the U.S. The report is informed by interviews with disaster recovery and climate justice organizations, insurance law experts, state and federal insurance regulators, and insurers. Disaster insurance can be expensive, putting it out of reach of…
Given the growing number of climate risk tools and providers, UNEP FI has developed resources to inform financial institutions on the structure, coverage, and methodologies of commonly used tools. The financial sector has a central role to play in assessing and managing climate-related risks. To do so, many financial institutions are working with third…
This document sets out 12 policy areas that insurers have identified as requiring reform, modernisation, or investment, and is the result of collaboration and consultation not just across the membership of the Insurance Council, but with stakeholders and policymakers across the country. While the focus of this document is on the work of the Austral…