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MAKING DISASTER RISK FINANCING WORK FOR RISK-AFFECTED PEOPLE
Accountability is a core principle for making Disaster Risk Finance (DRF) work for risk-affected people. Although DRF actors are widely committed to this, there is not yet a shared understanding of what accountability means and how it should be applied. This guidance note is therefore intended as a common framework to support practical approaches to meaningful accountability across the sector, with the aim of assuring financing that is in the best interest of the at-risk communities that it seeks to serve. It can be used by anyone involved in DRF, including those promoting, designing, delivering and supporting DRF.
ADDRESSING LOSS AND DAMAGE: INSIGHTS ON THE FUND AND THE GLOBAL SHIELD
Climate change is wreaking havoc on human lives, livelihoods and well-being in the world’s most vulnerable countries and communities. After decades of little to no progress, the agenda for loss and damage finance has shifted considerably in the past 12 months, with the announcement and launch of two major initiatives that aim to address aspects of this challenge. One is the Loss and Damage Fund agreed to at COP27, which has emerged from within the UNFCCC; the other is the Global Shield against Climate Risks, a joint G7 and V20 initiative.
This insight paper aims to improve the reader’s understanding of these two initiatives and provide insights into how thy may relate to each other, including possibilities for complementarity, and underlying tensions.
DISASTER RISK FINANCING: A GUIDE TO OUR QUALITY ASSURANCE SERVICE
This guidance note provides an overview of the Centre for Disaster Protection’s quality assurance service—a free-to-use and impartial service that provides governments, donors, multilateral organisations, and NGOs expert advice on the design and implementation of disaster risk financing projects.
Available in English, French, German and Arabic.
INNOVATIONS IN SOVEREIGN DEBT: TAKING DEBT PAUSE CLAUSES TO SCALE
This insight paper provides an overview of the key features of debt pause clauses, also known as climate resilient debt clauses. The paper highlights issues that may affect the incentives of sovereign governments and creditors to adopt them. It builds on confidential advice to the UK-chaired Private Sector Working Group by the Centre for Disaster Protection and has been informed by a private roundtable discussion with key legal, sovereign finance and development experts convened by the Centre in March 2023.
OPPORTUNITY COST OF COVID-19 BUDGET REALLOCATIONS: CROSS-COUNTRY SYNTHESIS
This cross-country synthesis study draws from four country studies, focusing on Albania, Ethiopia, Pakistan and South Africa, to calculate what the opportunity cost of budget reallocations was during the covid-19 pandemic. The research on which this synthesis is based took an exploratory approach to the methodology applied in each country to enable readers to learn from the process as much as from the results.
OPPORTUNITY COST OF COVID-19 BUDGET REALLOCATIONS: ETHIOPIA
This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters. The study, which this brief is based on, seeks to identify and quantify the opportunity costs associated with diverting funding from planned budgeted activities in Ethiopia, using the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to analyse public expenditure decisions, with a focus on what was not spent as a result of the pandemic.
OPPORTUNITY COST OF COVID-19 BUDGET REALLOCATIONS: SOUTH AFRICA
This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters. The study, which this brief is based on, seeks to identify and quantify the opportunity costs associated with diverting funding from planned budgeted activities in South Africa, using the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to analyse public expenditure decisions, with a focus on what was not spent as a result of the pandemic.