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Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE): Hurricane Melissa 2025 Jamaica thumbnail
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This Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) report provides a synopsis of the estimated direct physical damage in Jamaica due to the passage of Hurricane Melissa.

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
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This paper quantifies the short-run economic impact of 21 Atlantic hurricanes on U.S. local business activity from 2017 to 2024 using anonymized Mastercard transaction data aggregated by ZIP code.

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The prepared database would be of immense use for those who are working on floods for different regions, as well as for decision makers, planners, policy makers and communities in flood affected areas.

National Institute of Disaster Management (India)
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This review shows that Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are often more labor intensive than other potential investment options, thus providing significant potential for job creation.

PLOS Climate
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This stocktake intends to inform governments, development partners, and wider civil society about the key features of available sovereign-level instruments and their performance, successes and limitations to date based on clearly defined criteria.

Centre for Disaster Protection
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The State of Pre-arranged Financing for Disasters 2024 is a unique source of data and analysis on the level of effort of international development donors to support a shift towards arranging financing for disasters, before shocks happen.

Centre for Disaster Protection
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To support national planning and international advocacy, this report provides policy-makers in Somalia with new estimates of current and potential future climate-attributable losses and damages.

Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
Good Practices in Financing Recovery and Building Back Better
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Disaster Recovery Guidance

This recovery brief provides recovery practitioners with lessons and good practices on financing post-disaster recovery, recovery preparedness and building back better.

International Recovery Platform
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This report aims to inform discussions on the development of effective national and regional risk financing mechanisms by identifying funding gaps for wildfire and drought response.

European Union
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Climate Risk Insurance Annual Report 2023
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This report highlights key insights and achievements from WFP supported CRI programmes in each country, as well as stories from the field, interviews with partners, and insights into how WFP promotes gender equality and women's empowerment.

World Food Programme (WFP)