DRFF in the News
Nov 16
2017
Livelihoods for Georgia’s agricultural workers, accounting for more than half its labor force of about 2 million, are threatened by growing climate risk. Photo credit: World Bank The effects of climate change are already increasingly visible around the globe. Images of the devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean are fresh on the minds of participants in the 23 rd Conference of Parties ( COP23 ), underway this month in Bonn, Germany, where leaders have gathered to accelerate the transformation... Keep reading
Nov 14
2017
Read the full story and watch the video Sovereign Catastrophe Risk Pools : World Bank Technical Contribution to the G20 Working Paper: Sovereign catastrophe risk pools : A brief for policy makers Securing access to financial resources before a disaster strikes through sovereign catastrophe risk pools allows countries to respond quickly to disasters and reduce their impact on people and their livelihoods. This is what islands in both the Caribbean and the Pacific have done over the last decade... Keep reading
Oct 21
2017
A World Bank mission led by Olivier Mahul, Practice Manager of DRFIP, attended the APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting in Hoa An, Vietnam. APEC Finance Ministers have welcomed the cooperation among the APEC economies on Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (DRFI), with the World Bank as the lead technical facilitator, and have encouraged this work to continue in 2018. Click here to read the joint statement from APEC Finance Ministers. Keep reading