Worldwide—Centre for Disaster Protection

The Centre for Disaster Protection focuses on managing risks relating to disasters, helping countries move from reaction to readiness, and planning better for future disasters.

The Centre works with a wide range of organizations—country governments, development banks, humanitarian agencies, development insurers, private sector actors, research institutions, and nongovernmental groups—to support partner countries to strengthen their pre-disaster planning and financial arrangements so they can respond more rapidly and effectively when a disaster strikes.

Sample Activities:

• Deliver a respected and widely used quality assurance function that increases the quantity and quality of risk financing products and services.
• Provide effective technical assistance and training that supports high-risk, vulnerable countries in making better risk management decisions.
• Drive change through evidence, experimentation, and learning that strengthens the global evidence base on risk financing.
• Through advocacy, improve the quality and quantity of risk financing provided through the multilateral system.

Select Results

• Completed the first-ever comprehensive assessment of financial instruments used for pre-arranged disaster financing. The report, Demystifying Pre-Arranged Financing for Governments, seeks to help governments make sense of the instruments and assess their value based on seven critical criteria.