RESEARCH PROJECTS
Disaster Risk Finance Evidence Gap Assessment
The Centre reviewed the existing evidence on the welfare impacts of disaster risk finance. The review covers all interventions that help households finance their disaster response—from savings, micro-insurance and informal networks, to disaster funds and scalable social protection. We examined evidence on impact, as well as evidence on the 7 keys, pointing to evidence gaps, and highlighting key lessons from the existing evidence.
Tracking National Budget Reallocations in Response to covid-19
When disasters strike, cash-strapped governments are often forced to raid their existing budgets to finance emergency relief and recovery. Although expenditure reallocation is an important part of any government’s disaster response financing, there is very little data on its scale or cost. To fill this gap, the Centre is working with Oxford Policy Management to follow the financing of post-covid-19 response efforts of the governments of Pakistan, Ethiopia, and South Africa.
Learning from Anticipatory Action with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA)
Anticipatory action provides support to households in advance of a crisis, offering a revolutionary approach to humanitarian aid that—until now—typically starts after a crisis. The Centre is supporting UN-OCHA to capture learning in its first anticipatory action pilots. Our process learning work is identifying the challenges in implementing anticipatory action pilots.
Decision-making during covid-19 project with the International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Covid-19 has sparked a complex, multifaceted, and likely protracted global humanitarian crisis. In the most fragile contexts this could mean years of spikes in health, economic, and other risks related to the virus. The Centre and the IRC launched the Decision-making during covid-19 project, a collaborative effort to test and operationalise crisis risk financing tools in the context of a complex, protracted humanitarian crisis.