DRFF in the News
May 08
2020
The course is designed to help you better understand risk information, challenge quantitative results, and evaluate options to make risk-informed decisions for financial and economic planning purposes. Through a series of examples and practical hands-on exercises you will explore the five-step disaster risk analytics workflow, discovering how to assess the fiscal impact of disasters and how Disaster Risk Finance Analytics can support decision making and financial planning to reduce the... Keep reading
May 08
2020
E-learning -- Disaster Risk Finance in the Pacific: Get Ready to Respond! A new e-learning program has been released to help finance personnel in Pacific island countries prepare for disaster response operations. Using case studies and country-specific information, Disaster Risk Finance in the Pacific: Get Ready to Respond! highlights the importance of finance in disaster preparedness and response, introduces learners to disaster response organizational structures and, describes the... Keep reading
May 05
2020
Vendor Procurement Post (Application deadline: May 13th 2020): Disasters force an estimated 26 million people into poverty every year. Climate change will further increase the magnitude and frequency of extreme events in the future. Launched in October 2018, Global Risk Financing Facility (GRiF) is a Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF), housed in the World Bank, aims to provide grants to test, pilot, and scale up financing instruments that help developing countries better manage financial impacts... Keep reading