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Mexico’s Natural Disaster Fund – A Review

27 Aug 2013
“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...
Disaster Risk Financing

Caribbean: Addressing public/sovereign risks – the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF)

27 Aug 2013
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...
Disaster Risk Financing

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

27 Aug 2013
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...
Disaster Risk Financing

Bolivia: Fondo de Mitigación del Riesgo Agrícola (FMRA)

27 Aug 2013
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...
Disaster Risk Financing

Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE)

27 Aug 2013
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)

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

Flood Vulnerability through the Eyes of Vulnerable People in Mid-Western Terai of Nepal

27 Aug 2013
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...
Report
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...

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