DRFF in the News
May 21
2020
NUKU’ALOFA, May 1, 2020 The Government of Tonga can now access an additional US $4.5million (approx. Tongan Pa’anga $10.4million) from its disaster insurance cover to support response and recovery efforts following the impact of Category five Tropical Cyclone Harold. This additional assistance is an insurance payout from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) that was established under the World Bank’s Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI)... Keep reading
May 08
2020
The course is designed to help you better understand risk information, challenge quantitative results, and evaluate options to make risk-informed decisions for financial and economic planning purposes. Through a series of examples and practical hands-on exercises you will explore the five-step disaster risk analytics workflow, discovering how to assess the fiscal impact of disasters and how Disaster Risk Finance Analytics can support decision making and financial planning to reduce the... Keep reading
May 08
2020
E-learning -- Disaster Risk Finance in the Pacific: Get Ready to Respond! A new e-learning program has been released to help finance personnel in Pacific island countries prepare for disaster response operations. Using case studies and country-specific information, Disaster Risk Finance in the Pacific: Get Ready to Respond! highlights the importance of finance in disaster preparedness and response, introduces learners to disaster response organizational structures and, describes the... Keep reading