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Displaying 75 of about 452 resultsThis report is an outcome of the research carried out in the second year of the APN-funded project on Assessing Community Risk Insurance Initiatives and Identifying Enabling Policy and Institutional Factors for Maximizing Climate Change adaptation and disaster risk reduction benefits from risk insurance.
The report presents case studies from Australia,…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 122, December 2014:
This issue focuses on the important theme of 'Building Resilience for All'. It highlights the actions that are needed and the best practices that are prevalent among humanitarian agencies across the globe to build the resilience of the most marginalized and neglected groups. As eclectic as the field…
Southasiadisasters.net special issue no. 106, March 2014:
This issue explores the important role played by microinsurance in building up the resilience of communities vulnerable to addressing the impact of disasters and climate change.
The content includes: (i) EU’s Work in Phailin; (ii) MIA's Work on Climate Change and Microinsurance in India;…
London - In 2005, drought and famine hit the Sahel, claiming many lives. The pattern was repeated in 2010, with the crisis most acute in Niger. And now the early warning signs are there for problems again next year, in 2012.
Sahelians have always had their ways of coping with bad years. Not so long ago the cycle could be tracked by the size of women’s…
Citi has made a USD1 million commitment from the Citi Foundation to partner with Habitat for Humanity to develop a scalable savings model for poor communities in the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam that are especially vulnerable to disasters such as floods and typhoons. The program aims to help 3,000 low-income homeowners save a total of USD2 million…
Tsunami is an insurable risk, and hence an insurance company is not correct in denying the insured sum to a shipping company on the ground that tsunami is an earthquake-related activity not covered by marine insurance policy , Madras high court has said.
The issue was raised by Cuddalore-based SBK Shipping Private Limited, which said four of its barges…
By Thin Lei Win
BANGKOK - When heavy rains triggered floods in China last year, washing away homes, causing landslides and flooding farmland, the damage resulted in overall losses of $20 billion - making it the world's second costliest disaster in 2016.
Yet with only 2 percent of that insured, according to German reinsurer Munich Re, many communi…
By Syful Islam
Bangladesh has seen a near-record number of deaths this year from a phenomenon that appears to be worsening with climate change: lightning strikes.
So far this year, 261 people have died from lightning in the country, putting the South Asian nation on track to beat last year's 265 deaths. Most lightning deaths usually occur during…
The African Union's insurance arm will increase its disaster cover to $1.5 billion by 2020 from $179 million currently following one of the continent's worst droughts in decades, a senior executive said on Thursday.
Drought has ravaged much of southern Africa this year and Malawi's government said on Wednesday half its population is in need of food aid…
The floods that ravaged southern China in May were the fifth-worst natural global catastrophe last year, but only a fraction of the losses were insured, revealing a huge insurance gap in the world’s second-largest economy and the threat posed by climate change, according to a report by reinsurer Munich Re.
The disastrous floods in Guangdong, Guangxi an…
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Index-based insurance is slowly gaining momentum in Bangladesh. In 2020, 316 flood-struck Boro rice farmers from the region of Gaibandha received compensation as part of a satellite-based agricultural-based flood index (IBFI) program. This program was developed by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in partnership with Oxfam Banglades…
Insurance covers 10% of China's natural disaster losses vs 30%-40% globally
Extreme weather events increasing in China
Catastrophe insurance still in early stages in China
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Many local governments in China, especially those in typhoon-prone areas, have embraced such insurance, but regulators and experts say more needs to be done after losse…
This research conducted by SLYCAN Trust aims to identify key indicators to assess and track the resilience of farming households as well as the impact of risk management, risk transfer, and risk finance interventions. The agriculture sector is a vital part of Sri Lanka’s economy and provides employment for approximately a quarter of the country’s w…
EGC Affiliate Kevin Donovan explores the impact of reducing agricultural risk on smallholder farming in low-income countries
The equilibrium impact of agricultural risk on intermediate inputs and aggregate productivity
Floods, droughts, and other extreme weather events are major sources of risk for smallholder farmers, often destroying their harvests…
IDRiM 2016 builds on the strength of its predecessor conferences, and features a broad scope of topics and partners. The conference also aims to bring the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action forward, followed by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in the next few years. Earthquakes, Floods, Water, Climate change, and their mult…