Economics of DRR

2022 Climate risk insurance annual report highlights key insights and achievements from WFP-supported Climate Risk Insurance (CRI) programmes.

This study analyzes how the role of ASEAN economies in global value chains has helped spur their recovery and cut poverty.

WFP has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women’s economic empowerment. It presents the story of women that have access to WFP’s climate risk insurance and related interventions.

IRP Herald Volume 36 is the knowledge report for the International Recovery Forum 2023: Building Back Better and Long-term Recovery Outcomes: Aspirations for a Resilient, Sustainable Future

This report highlights the urgent need to rewire the current financial systems towards (a) de-risking current investments (b) integrating risk reduction into credit allocation and (c) redirecting financial flows towards risk reduction.

The Asia-Pacific region has been at the forefront of the anticipatory action agenda for sudden onset hazards. Cash is rightly seen as an option to deliver effective, cost-efficient and timely assistance to vulnerable households.

This PDNA assesses the impact of the 2022 floods in 94 calamity-hit districts across Pakistan. It serves as the foundation for future analysis, including a resilient recovery and reconstruction strategy and a coordinated effort for building back better.

This paper estimates the short-run causal impact of the 2018 flood disaster on the economy of Kerala in India, using a difference-in-difference approach.

This knowledge report highlights the key lessons and recommendations emerging from the discussions during the 15 sessions of the 5th World Reconstruction Conference.

The Guidelines were designed to support ASEAN Member States in establishing their regional and national transport connectivity recovery plans with a focus on resilience and sustainability.