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Real-time Water Dashboard: Intersecting Science and Digital Platforms to Deliver Big Data for Flood Management

2 October 2018
The Real-time Water Dashboard offers features that are not only useful, but lifesaving, too. These include hydrological, hydrodynamic modeling and flood forecasting, early warning against floods, and river basin management. The dashboard provides data that can help us look at vulnerability under…

Disaster Contingent Financing in the Pacific

26 September 2018
There is a strong demand for contingent financing in the Pacific. Gaps in quick-disbursing funds, acculumation of indirect costs over time, and rapid prioritzation of needs increase demand for this type of financing. This presentation shares Tonga's experience in the utilization of contingent…

National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) – Pakistan

26 September 2018
The National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) is a government-owned, not-for-profit, non-bank financial intermediary in Pakistan. It provides grants to subprojects that contribute to enhanced resilience to extreme weather and geophysical hazards (DRR) and strengthen the government’s ability…

The Role of Regulation and Supervision for Enhancing Innovative Insurance, Reinsurance and Capital Market Solutions

26 September 2018
Innovation can make disaster risk insurance more responsive and effective. The use of FinTech and artificial intelligence, for instance, has attracted investments in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and has made banks in Spain more efficient, respectively. Innovations such as FinTech enable…

Pilot Project on Weather Index Based Crop Insurance

26 September 2018
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Its poor farmers are most vulnerable to calamities yet they are often excluded in risk-sharing mechanisms. Traditional credit mechanisms hardly reach them. This presentation shares how an ADB project increased the resilience of…

Enabling Environment for Enhanced Disaster Risk Financing

25 September 2018
The establishment of disaster risk financing (DRF) instruments is important. However, they will only be effective within an enabling environment. This presentation compares disaster risk financing in four countries to illustrate the development of an effective DRF strategy in varying contexts.

Disaster Insurance and Reinsurance Solutions in the Agriculture Sector

25 September 2018
The agriculture sector faces various risks, such as climate change and rising prices of materials for production. Farmers deal with these risks using different methods, such as mixed cropping and staggered sowing. Agricultural insurance and government support can help, but a holistic agriculture…

Blue Innovation using OTEC and DOWA from Asia-Pacific

18 June 2018
An Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) and Deep Sea Water Application (DOWA) have been strongly focused again on the important one solution for expected for saving the earth and Sustainable Development Golds (SDGs). In recent years, technology and business have been internationally advanced to…

Structured Decision Support for Natural Resource Management

22 May 2018
Serious issues beset the globe today. Competition for natural resources and threats to flora and fauna and to human health challenge the world's survival. These concerns highlight the need for authoritative science information. This presentation shares valuable information on how applied research…

Organica-powered Wastewater Treatment Plant

22 May 2018
Traditional wastewater treatment plants are costly and inefficient. They consume massive amounts of energy and can negatively impact land values. This presentation shares a new way of treating wastewater, as used in Hungary, India, and Indonesia. This method, promoted by the Organica Water Company…