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Case Study

Pre-Financing Anticipatory Action: Lessons Learned from the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society

28 Feb 2025
Since 2015, the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has been at the forefront of anticipatory action, developing trigger models and testing early action activities for cyclones, floods, and heatwaves. By 2024, BDRCS had validated three Early Acti...
Case Study, Anticipatory action, Disaster Risk Financing
Guidance material, Report

Pre-Financing Anticipatory Action: A Practical Guide for National Societies

28 Feb 2025
Anticipatory action is expanding and being mainstreamed across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. As National Societies add more Early Action Protocols (EAPs) and scale up their anticipatory action programming, developing an anticipatory action pre...
Guidance material, Report, Anticipatory action, Disaster Risk Financing
Report

Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice 2024

11 Dec 2024
Author: Global Center on Adaptation This year’s Stories of Resilience lays out the need for urgent and rapid reform in how global and national climate finance is delivered, in the power dynamics between providers and recipients, and in how success ...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Financing, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Data set

The Resilient Planet Data Hub

22 Mar 2024
The Resilient Planet Data Hub is a resource that provides open data about climate and environmental risks. The hub offers high-quality data that is globally consistent. The hub’s Global Resilience Index (GRI) Risk Viewer compares risks from var...
Data set, Disaster Risk Financing, Risk Assessment
Research

Blockchain and Economic Development: Hype vs. Reality

29 Nov 2017
Increasing attention is being paid to the potential of blockchain technology to address long-standing challenges related to economic development. Blockchain proponents argue that it will expand opportunities for exchange and collaboration by reducing...
Research, Disaster Risk Financing, Mobile Technology
Research

World risk report 2016: The importance of infrastructure

13 Jan 2017
The World Risk Report 2016 analyses the role that infrastructure plays in shaping a country’s disaster risk. The World Risk Index, calculated by the University of Stuttgart, is an integral part of the report as it ranks 171 countries according to ...
Research, Disaster Risk Financing, Risk Assessment
Report

Australia Disaster Management Reference Handbook

20 Jun 2016
The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (USA), produces country and regional reference books to provide a commonly available baseline of information regarding disaster management environments. This Disaster Manage...
Report, Disaster Risk Financing, Risk Assessment
Report

Building Resilient Infrastructure

09 Mar 2016
This report reviews the decision-making process for new infrastructure and emphasizes the need to embed resilience into this process and practical guidance to do so. It is b...
Report, Disaster Risk Financing, Infrastructure and Services, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Leveraging Catastrophe Bonds As a Mechanism for Resilient Infrastructure Project Finance

28 Feb 2016
The RE.bound initiative has been developed by Rockefeller Foundation, Swiss Re, Goldman Sachs and RMS to link risk transfer coverage for cities with financing for resilient infrastructure. The initiative is developing an innovative version of catas...
Guidance material, Disaster Risk Financing
Report

Strategic directions: strengthening national platforms for disaster reduction – with experience in Kyrgyz Republic

02 Feb 2016
The strategic directions on strengthening National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction are intended for use by all stakeholders as a guiding document or manual, which proposes a list of rational options of organizational and practical actions that ...
Report, Disaster Risk Financing, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience

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