This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits...
Technical Analysis to Inform the Trigger Design for Adaptive Safety Nets in Malawi 2023 has been prepared by the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice’s Crisis, and Disaster Risk Finance...
The objective of this disaster risk financing (DRF) diagnostic is to assess Ethiopia’s financial preparedness to disasters and crises at the sovereign, firm, and household level. At the request of the...
This technical note about post-disaster expenditures contributes to the rigorous evidence needed to strengthen fund management in the aftermath of disasters and to support the government of Kenya’s strategic...
Social protection (SP) programs are fundamental in responding to the impact of shocks, whether covariate or idiosyncratic, by helping to mitigate their impacts as well as build resilience to future shocks...
This paper aims to improve understanding of how disaster risk financing (DRF) enables social protection (SP) systems to respond to and mitigate the impacts of climatic and potentially other shocks. As...
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.