Global Disaster Preparedness Center
gdpc@redcross.org
![Knowledge Notes on Structural Measures](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Part of a series of notes developed by the World Bank and the Government of Japan that analyze and synthesize what worked, what did not, and why in the response to the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, offering recommendations for developing co...
![Mexico’s Natural Disaster Fund – A Review](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
“As part of its disaster risk management efforts, the Federal Government of Mexico established the Fund for Natural Disasters FONDEN to support disaster relief and reconstruction. FONDEN was originally established as a budgetary tool through wh...
![Caribbean: Addressing public/sovereign risks – the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The CCRIF is a regional insurance facility owned and operated by 16 Caribbean governments. The facility insures the governments against the impacts of catastrophic hurricanes and earthquakes and allows them to access liquidity on short notice using p...
![Turkey: Addressing private risks – the Turkey Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The TCIP is an insurance pool which seeks to provide affordable insurance to homeowners, especially those in urban residential areas, and to reduce the fiscal exposure of the Turkish government by accumulating funds for future disasters, sharing port...
![Bolivia: Fondo de Mitigación del Riesgo Agrícola (FMRA)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Fundación PROFIN has developed an innovative index-based insurance scheme that has been piloted in four provinces in the North and Central Altiplano regions of Bolivia. The scheme combines incentives for pro-active risk reduction and a flexible, peo...
![Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The CADRE program is an expansion of the PEER program to teach people how to deal with mass casualty incidents, provide triage and first aid to many injured people, and carry out light search and rescue operations. These skills may all be necessary f...
![Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
PEER is a regional training program initiated in 1998 by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) to strengthen disaster response capacities in Asia. PEER builds on a similar program t...
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![Flood Vulnerability through the Eyes of Vulnerable People in Mid-Western Terai of Nepal](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
An assessment of the perceived flood vulnerability of community members in two southern districts of Nepal. Flood Vulnerability through the Eyes of Vulnerable People in Mid-Western Terai of Nepal http://www.omicsonline.org/2157-7617/pdfdownload.php?d...
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![Feasibility Study for Agricultural Insurance in Nepal](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
A feasibility study investigating the potential for agricultural insurance to be used as a financial risk transfer tool for small and marginal farmers in Nepal. The study outlines the core institutional, financial, and technical challenges to the int...