CENTRE STORY

We focus on disaster risk financing to help ensure that money and plans are in place before a disaster strikes.

The Centre plays a unique role in the global risk management and crisis financing architecture. We were established to address major challenges to effective disaster risk financing and promote more impactful and more equitable disaster risk finance at scale, that leaves no one behind.

Our services are unique. Since 2017, with founding investment from the UK government, the Centre has established a reputation for providing independent, credible, evidence-based advice.

We provide impartial guidance, views and perspectives. We are rigorous about identifying any real or perceived conflicts of interest in our work. We are the only international organisation focused on providing impartial technical advice and training on disaster risk finance – we do not implement or sell financial instruments. We will continue to ensure that our governance structure and funding streams support and protect our impartiality.

We aim to be a reliable, trusted, and authoritative voice in disaster risk financing. We want our work to be recognised for its quality. High standards, rigorous peer review and our quality assurance procedures help us deliver excellence.

We generate robust evidence and engage in global policy to drive impactful disaster risk financing across the international crisis financing system.

We challenge ourselves to promote inclusive dialogue and to listen to underrepresented voices. We seek to be a critical friend and a positive disruptor. We are unafraid to ask ‘why?’ and ‘why not?’. In so doing, we challenge the status quo – both in our work and in the global risk management and crisis financing architecture – and encourage positive alternatives to ensure that risks are better managed and needs are better met.

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