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Star Rating - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure

12 September 2016
Risk factors, sometimes called crash modification factors (CMF), are used by International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) in its methodology to relate road attributes and risk of death and serious injury. Learn how to use iRAP’s Star Rating Demonstrator to produce star ratings that can help…

Sustainable Development Goal - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure

12 September 2016
Targets like those reflected in the global sustainable development goals are important because they provide strategic focus for road safety. Research and experience show that long-term goals and targets provide better management of strategies and programs, improved quality of safety programs, and…

Case Studies - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure

12 September 2016
The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) is used for setting road safety targets, assessing existing road networks and tracking infrastructure risk over time, evaluating safety benefits of road projects, assessing risk for design iterations, and conducting post-construction evaluations.…

Impact Evaluation of Environmental Outcomes

6 September 2016
Impact evaluation (IE) is both a possible and vital component in implementing environmental programs and in achieving the desired environmental outcomes. Indirect and general equilibrium effects, however, pose challenges in the use of IE as an environmental intervention. Coming up with creative…

Experiences of the G7 Climate Risk Insurance Initiative: InsuResilience

6 September 2016
The G7 Climate Risk Insurance Inititative—InsuResilience—aims to increase by up to 400 million the number of poor and vulnerable people who have access to direct or indirect insurance coverage by 2020. To reach this objective, the initiative will boost indirect insurance while developing and…

What are the Limitations of the Existing Financial Instruments to Address the Risks of Loss and Damage and What Could Be Other Options/Solutions Considering the Best Practices Around?

6 September 2016
Forum participants enumerated the limitations of existing financial instruments, which include, among others, a lack of accessible and adequate data and a common understanding about how to characterize loss and damage. Contingency funds are also mostly loan-based. To address these limitations, they…

What is the Role and Importance of Enabling Environments (e.g. Policies/Strategies, Institutions, Capacity) to Effectively Apply Financial Instruments to Address the Risks of Loss and Damage?

6 September 2016
Forum participants identified the major stakeholders of financial instruments that address loss and damage. They also discussed strategies and options that can be taken to create an enabling environment for financial instruments.

Social Facets of Climate Risks

6 September 2016
What are the social aspects of the risks of loss and damage, including for particularly vulnerable countries, populations and the ecosystems they depend upon? In this presentation, Mark New of the African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town explains the social facets of…

Outcomes of the Break-out Groups

6 September 2016
Forum participants enumerated the limitations of existing financial instruments, which include, among others, a lack of accessible and adequate data and a common understanding about how to characterize loss and damage. They also discussed strategies and options that can be taken to create an…

What Makes Social Protection Systems Adaptive?

6 September 2016
Poor households are more likely to be affected by disasters, and have been found to lose relatively more than non-poor people. Adaptive social protection programs can protect poor households from climate and other shocks.