Risk Management and Financing

This resource looks at 2 main themes: risk assessment and disaster risk financing

Abstract

The resilience concept can be viewed as an adapted approach to risk management in development programming. This resource looks at two key themes: risk assessment and disaster risk financing, through bite-size chunks of information and signposts to other material. It will help to answer questions such as:

  • What are multi-hazard risk assessments and how do they differ from traditional risk management approaches?
  • What tools and data sources are available to help practitioners to assess risk?
  • What do early warning systems look like and how effective are they?
  • What are the benefits of adaptive programming and flexible programme financing?
  • How can we build a pre-emptive strategy to cover the costs of disasters 鈥� what are the risk financing options at different levels, from individual to state?
  • What lessons have been learnt from using insurance on programmes?
  • What are the challenges associated with risk financing?

This resource is part of a series of . It can be read in conjunction with the introductory resource , and the more detailed resources on and . The and will also assist readers in understanding the terminology used throughout this resource and the other resources in the Resilience series.

Citation

Sturgess, P.; DFID. Risk Management and Financing. Evidence on Demand, UK (2016) 73 pp. [DOI: 10.12774/eod_tg.may2016.sturgess1]

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2016