1. Home
  2. Knowledge Base | PreventionWeb
  3. Themes

Financing DRR

Τhis theme covers economic analysis supporting risk-informed investments, better investment planning and financing strategies for disaster risk reduction, cost-benefit analysis and other DRR investment appraisal techniques, and ex-ante/ex-post financing.

This theme at the moment also addresses post-event economic loss and impact assessments.

When Guatemala analysed how public money was spent on disaster risk and climate action, a clear picture emerged: prevention was underfunded — and opportunity was being missed.

Latest Financing DRR additions in the Knowledge Base

Uploaded on
Country perspectives on pre-arranged financing: Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Zambia thumbnail
Documents and publications

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.

Centre for Disaster Protection
Country perspectives on pre-arranged financing: Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal and Zambia thumbnail
Documents and publications

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.

Centre for Disaster Protection
What governments want from pre-arranged financing: evidence from Africa and the Caribbean – policy brief thumbnail
Documents and publications

This policy brief presents the first cross-country study of what governments want from pre-arranged financing (PAF) — funding secured in advance to respond to disasters.

Centre for Disaster Protection
Iluminated light bulb is located on soil and plant are growing.
Update

Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are caught in a dangerous feedback loop: rising debt burdens are constraining their ability to invest in climate action, while climate shocks are worsening fiscal pressures and increasing debt risks.

Asian Development Bank Institute
Standing the heat: an analysis of heatwave financing in India’s Union budget thumbnail
Documents and publications

This report highlights a significant gap in dedicated public financing for heat resilience In India.

Greenpeace International
Financing Heat Resilience report cover
Documents and publications

This report explores how governments can finance heat resilience through risk-informed investments, innovative financing mechanisms, and resilient infrastructure to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies from rising extreme heat risks.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Centre for Disaster Protection
National Disaster Management Authority (India)
Principles and processes for prioritising and influencing urban resilience investment.pdf thumbnail
Documents and publications

This guide outlines a set of principles and processes for resilience investment in Australia aimed at fostering effective, sustainable, and long-term resilience-building initiatives.

Natural Hazards Research Australia
Houses with wildfire smoke in the background
Research briefs

A new study projects the intertwined relationship between fires and the money spent fighting them.

Eos - AGU
Uploaded on