DRFF in the News
Jul 14
2021
The webinar for Leveraging Space Technology for Climate Risk Finance took place on June 24, 2021. The webinar focused on raising awareness on the use of Earth Observation (EO) data to quantify, manage, and disclose climate-related risks in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDE) and highlighted the financial exposure of governments, banks, and investors to climate risks. The webinar also discussed emerging needs in assessing climate physical risks from EMDE and presented new space... Keep reading
Jun 30
2021
The second webinar of the Global Risk Financing Facility (GRiF) Technical Talks took place virtually on June 23, 2021. The webinar featured an in-depth discussion on Sierra Leone country project. Iffat Sharif (Practice Manager, Social Protection and Jobs [SP&J], WBG) presented the opening remarks and discussed the importance and relevance of GRiF grant to the Sierra Leone Social Safety Net Project. Thomas Vaughan Bowen (Social Protection Specialist, SP&J, WBG) delivered a lightening... Keep reading
Jun 23
2021
The Financial Resilience Program (FRP) was established in June 2021 in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to enhance the capacity of policy makers for improved financial resilience of vulnerable rural households and businesses to climate shocks and natural disasters. The FRP: provides technical assistance to governments in the development and implementation of policy to help rural populations and businesses prepare for—and recover more quickly from—... Keep reading