THE STATE OF PRE-ARRANGED FINANCING FOR DISASTERS

Report by Centre for Disaster Risk Reduction, with support from UK aid. Pre-arranged financing (PAF) for disasters has the potential to significantly increase the predictability, speed and effectiveness of responses to shocks, reducing the human and financial costs, according to the report. However, it argues that currently, it is unclear how much pre-arranged finance is required to protect crisis, how much coverage there is in place, and how far we are from achieving adequate coverage, targeted to the right places, for those people most at risk. The Centre for Disaster Protection has produced this data-led report, which collates the best available data to start to assess and monitor annually the state of pre-arranged financing supported with international development financing in low- and middle income countries.