recent innovations on disaster risk financing and insurance developed by the private markets as well as the international … applications in sovereign disaster risk financing for developing countries. Section three examines how innovations coming out of … considers how innovation is taking seed in creative disaster micro insurance programs in low- and middle-income countries …

, this Knowledge Note distills some lessons from China’s progress in many areas of disaster risk management. The note does … practitioners globally. Drawing on expert insights from China’s disaster risk management community, key themes highlighted by this … note include: the evolution of national disaster risk reduction (DRR) planning; the rise of demonstration communities …

Burkina Faso is one of the priority countries of the World Bank's Disaster Risk Management (DRM) team for 2009 to 2011 …. this country note on Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change (DRM/ACC) is a baseline document for … under the "Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery" (GFDRR). Based on analysis of the impact of climate …

disaster risk management in the Philippines. The objectives of the first study were to: document the impacts of natural … disaster risk; and identify options for more effective management of that risk. This follow-on study is intended to support the … disaster management in the Philippines; study on floods, sediment and typhoon disaster; study on earthquake disaster; study on …

, volcanic eruptions, tropical cyclones and floods, making it one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. This report … country's current capacity to reduce and manage disaster risk; and identify options for more effective management of that risk …. The Philippine institutional arrangements and disaster management systems tend to rely on a response, or reactive approach …