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Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF): Regional Parametric Insurance and Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing

27 Aug 2013
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is the world’s first multi-country, multi-peril catastrophe risk pool, owned and operated by Caribbean governments. Launched in 2007 in response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Iv...
Disaster Risk Financing

Turkey: Addressing private risks – the Turkey Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP)

27 Aug 2013
The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) is a compulsory public-private earthquake insurance scheme established in 2000 in response to the devastating 1999 Marmara earthquake, which killed 15,000 people and placed enormous fiscal strain on the T...
Disaster Risk Financing

Seguro Agrícola Índice para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastre: Sistematización del Fondo de Mitigación del Riesgo Agrícola (FMRA) en Bolivia

27 Aug 2013
Este recurso documenta un innovador esquema de seguro agrícola basado en índices, desarrollado y piloteado por la alianza PROFIN-PROSUCO-F-UNAPA en cuatro municipios del Altiplano Norte de Bolivia — Patacamaya, Tiwanaku, Batallas y Achacachi — ...
Disaster Risk Financing

Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE)

27 Aug 2013
The Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE) program is a community-based disaster response initiative developed under the Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER), a regional training program initiated by USAID’s Office of Fo...

Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER)

27 Aug 2013
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...
Report, Research

Flood Vulnerability Assessment in Nepal: Community-Based Participatory Study of Indicators and Parameters in the West Rapti River Basin

27 Aug 2013
This peer-reviewed article, published in the Journal of Earth Science and Climate Change (2013), presents a community-level participatory flood vulnerability assessment conducted in the West Rapti River Basin in the Mid-Western Terai region of Nepal ...
Report, Research
Report

Feasibility Study for Agricultural Insurance in Nepal

27 Aug 2013
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...
Report, Disaster Risk Financing, Livelihoods and Food Security
Report

Emergency preparedness financing in Nepal: desk review

27 Aug 2013
Review of current funding mechanisms for disaster preparedness in Nepal and analysis of opportunities for improved risk financing in the future. Emergency preparedness financing in Nepal: desk review, September 2011 http://www.devinit.org/wp-content/...
Report, Disaster Risk Financing

Strengthening responses to climate variability in South Asia

27 Aug 2013
A report from DfID and USAID looking at the root causes of vulnerability and the opportunities for strengthening resilience to combined risks of climate change and conflict in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Strengthening responses to climate...
Report

IFRC Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Study: Lessons Learned from the Tsunami Operation CBDRR Programmes

27 Aug 2013
In November 2010, the IFRC commissioned Arup International Development (Arup ID) to undertake a study of programmes implemented after the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 in order to “identify and document lessons learned in implementing at scale C...
Report

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