This report presents the findings of a rigorous impact evaluation conducted by Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Office of Evaluation (OEV), in partnership with the World Bank¡¯s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department, focused on anticipatory cash transfers in response to severe flooding in Bangladesh.
The 2025 Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) Annual Report highlights key insights and achievements from Â鶹ÊÓƵ-supported DRF programmes. It provides deep dives into the DRF programmes in each country, as well as stories from the field, interviews with partners and insights into how Â鶹ÊÓƵ promotes the use of pre-arranged financing to help vulnerable populations prepare for, respond to and recover from weather-related disasters.
This policy note builds on the practical and operational experience of the World Bank and Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to offer an overview of why and how strengthening the linkages between disaster risk finance (DRF) and adaptive social protection (ASP) matters.
Final evaluation of adapting to climate change through integrated risk management services and enhance market opportunities for resilient food security and livelihoods in Malawi from 2020 to 2025.
As the world¡¯s most disaster?prone country, the Philippines faces recurring climate shocks straining public finances, disrupt food systems, and negatively impact poor households, particularly at-risk communities. Delays in financing amplify these impacts, raise humanitarian costs and force families into harmful coping strategies that deepen food insecurity. Climate disaster risk financing and insurance (CDRFI) helps protect climate-vulnerable communities by encouraging early and proactive action, provide fast and reliable funding, and build long-term climate resilience.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ Madagascar¡¯s integrated resilience approach Under Strategic Outcome 3 of its Country Strategic Plan (2024-2028), Â鶹ÊÓƵ Madagascar is implementing a range of resilience-building activities in support of the Malagasy Government, aiming to equip targeted communities with productive, inclusive and sustainable food systems.
Over the last decade, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has led the way in developing and testing innovative disaster risk financing solutions that protect vulnerable communities from weather-related shocks, enabling faster, more resilient responses and long-term food security.
Over the years, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has gathered evidence from its global programmes that highlights the pivotal role of insurance and other financial instruments in safeguarding households¡¯ food security, livelihoods and productive activities. This factsheet outlines five Impact Pathways on Inclusive Risk Financing, each emphasizing the various ways in which insurance and financial services contribute to strengthening resilience and financial security.
This report presents the findings of a rigorous impact evaluation conducted by Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Office of Evaluation (OEV), in partnership with the World Bank¡¯s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department, focused on anticipatory cash transfers in response to severe flooding in Nepal.
The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report offers a comprehensive evaluation of the proposed "Activating Climate-Smart Agricultural Livelihoods in Somalia" (ACALS) project.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Disaster Risk Financing solutions have been helping affected communities respond to the impacts of El Ni?o-induced droughts by delivering timely financial assistance and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities in Southern Africa.
Countries in the Asia Pacific region are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate-related events even though, historically, they have contributed the least to the climate crisis. The diversity of climate-related risks and hazards they face underscores the critical need for Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) instruments which can help reduce the economic and human cost of disasters.
Building on analysis and lessons learned these reports provide recommendations to strengthen and institutionalize linkages between disaster risk finance and social protection to make systems more shock-responsive.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been an Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) Replica Partner since 2018, purchasing insurance policies in several African countries to help protect vulnerable people from climate shocks.
For over a decade, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women¡¯s economic empowerment. Â鶹ÊÓƵ presents its experience from the field spotlighting women who have harnessed Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s climate risk insurance and related interventions to strengthen their resilience and ensure food security for their households.
