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Climate and Disaster Risk Financing in Zambia – a Protection Gap Analysis

This study serves as a basis for developing a Climate and Disaster Risk Financing Strategy for Zambia. It quantifies Zambia's "protection gap" by comparing expected economic impacts from floods and droughts to the extent currently covered by available pre-arranged financial mechanisms.
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Catalysing Finance and Insurance for Nature-based Solutions

Nature-based solutions can be an effective way to address environmental and social challenges, including adaptation to climate change and nature-related financial risks faced by economies around the globe. Although private sector engagement has picked up, nature-based solutions remain severely underfunded.
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InsuResilience Sectoral Community Recommendations on Integrated Resilience Approaches in Agriculture

The Sectoral Community (SC) on Integrated Resilience Approaches in Agriculture was developed to inform, design and test innovative integrated solutions in the agricultural sector, as well as support the development of funding criteria for such projects. This guide is targeted at those designing projects and developing proposals for integrated resilience approaches in agriculture and those funding these projects.
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Gender and Poverty-related Barriers of the Urban Poor to access Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance: Evidence from the Mahila Housing Trust in India

The findings of this study are intended to inform and enable the adoption of gender-responsive disaster risk financing and insurance approaches as part of comprehensive climate and disaster risk management strategies. Interviews were conducted with the Mahila Housing SEWA Trust's staff in India and urban poor women groups to include their first-hand experiences in dealing with climate risk into recommendations for designing gender-responsive CDRFI solutions.
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Methodological guidance to assess the value for money of premium and capital support towards climate and disaster risk finance and insurance

This guidance note contributes to the practical implementation of the Value for Money (VfM) principle. It does so by proposing a framework and methodology for the ex-ante assessment and comparison of different premium and capital support (PCS) options, aiming to inform and support decision-makers.
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Methodological guidance to determine the ‘size’ of premium and capital support (PCS) at macro level

This document proposes methodological guidance to define the ‘scaling factor’ to determine the size of premium and capital support (PCS) at macro-level. It is based on the ‘SMART PCS Principles’, developed by the InsuResilience Global Partnership (IGP) to scale-up the Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) solutions.
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The political economy of premium subsidies: searching for better impact and design

This report investigates the political economy of countrylevel decision-making in relation to sovereign-level CDRFI, and the role of premium and capital support in these decisions. It also analyses the political economy of donor decisions in relation to PCS. Further, the report covers premium subsidies, investigating how these can shape governments’ incentives to purchase insurance as well as considering how the allocation and design of subsidies can affect their impact and effectiveness.
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Toolkit for Policymakers: A gender-responsive approach for Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI)

This toolkit provides a gender-smart Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI) policy self-assessment framework to identify and analyse the extent to which gender considerations are integrated into your country’s CDRFI-related policies and where there are gaps.
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The Gender-responsiveness of InsuResilience Projects

The study investigated the extent to which policy commitment at the IGP level is realized at the programme and project levels with the aim of measuring the gender-responsiveness of the IGP programmes and projects. This report serves to understand challenges and approaches for solution to design projects in a gender-responsive manner for effective Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance.
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Gender-Lens Investing in Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI) Solutions

This guidance note specifically focuses on the deployment of development finance with a gender lens in CDRFI-related investment and grant making opportunities to fill an existing gap in practical resources on this topic. It is intended for Members of the InsuResilience Global Partnership (IGP) and the broader CDRFI community that are involved in the financing, design and implementation of gender-smart CDRFI solutions.