Crisis and disaster risk finance: Short notes on COVID-19
Source
This short note was published as independent blogs between June and October 2020 as part of technical knowledge produced by the Disaster Risk Finance Community of Practice.
The note includes the following 12 blogs and authors’ biographies:
- Five lessons on disaster risk finance to inform COVID-19 crisis response
- Five reasons you should be thinking about compounding risks now
- Five reasons the Global Risk Financing Facility is relevant during an ongoing pandemic
- Five ways COVID-19 leads to natural catastrophe protection gaps at the sovereign level
- Expect the unexpected: Three benefits of rainy day funds
- Five ways the World Bank’s IDA-19 is supporting the poorest countries in the time of COVID
- Three ways that contingent policy financing contributes to resilience building before, during, and after COVID-19
- Five reasons to support SMEs so they can build stronger resilience to future disaster shocks
- Three reasons the public and private sectors are stronger together against disasters and crises
- Five ways satellite data can help prepare for the unexpected
- Four ways disaster risk finance strengthens the effectiveness of adaptive social protection
- Three ways to enhance online knowledge exchange during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Hazards
Epidemic and Pandemic
Number of pages
63 p.
Publication year
2020