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Country Experience on Contingency Finance Nicaragua

6 September 2016
Nicaragua is the first nation in Central America to get covered by a disaster risk insurance. Was this move helpful in reducing its vulnerability?

Risk Transfer Schemes Including Insurance Products and Tools

6 September 2016
Risk transfer schemes can be utilized most efficiently when used as part of comprehensive, needs-based risk management solutions. Forum participants identified the schemes that can help address the losses and damages caused by climate change. The output also enumerates challenges and opportunities…

Making Risk Finance an Integral Synergizing Element of Comprehensive Risk Management Philippines Experience

6 September 2016
Enhancing the comprehensive risk management (CRM) is key to addressing loss and damage associated with climate change impacts. As a part of CRM, risk finance such as insurance should be designed in a way that creates synergy with risk control. To that end, building incentive mechanisms for risk…

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.

New Financing Approaches Instruments and Opportunities that Address the Risks of Loss and Damage

6 September 2016
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the insurance industry has been working with institutional investors in promoting risk modelling beyond insurance. The aim is to offer parametric risk transfer to organizations (e.g., NGOs, development banks, microfinance providers, municipalities…

Notes on Philippine Funding Options in the Loss and Damage Age

6 September 2016
The Philippine Government has established the people’s survival fund through Republic Act 10174. The fund is intended to provide long-term finance streams to enable the Government to address the problem of climate change. This is among the noted funding options that aim to address climate loss and…

European Unions Experiences in Policy Funding and Financing Instruments Addressing Loss and Damage

6 September 2016
The European adaptation strategy deals with adaptation and resilience. Financial instruments are part of the whole package, while research and innovative approaches are considered to close existing knowledge gap.

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…

Review of Retail Electricity Tariffs

5 September 2016
Electricity subsidies are often paid out if government budgets exceed all spending on education, healthcare, and rural support. In order to subsidize low residential customer prices, governments impose higher prices on industrial customers, which discourages new investment and encourage…

Case Study Participatory Evaluation of Rural Roads

5 September 2016
This presentation discusses the participatory evaluation approach which assesses economic and social impact by involving stakeholders in the process. This approach obtains systematic information to gauge user demand and satisfaction and to produce recommendations. It features the Asian Development…