Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction
The UNDRR training series on How to Design National Financing Frameworks for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) will build capacity and increase awareness on how to develop national financing frameworks that foster investments in DRR. The training modules are designed to help increase understanding of how to mobilize financing for DRR from different sources (i.e., public, private, and international) and perform investment gap analyses. This training series is designed using UNDRR’s financing approach for DRR that has been collaboratively developed with experts and government partners.
Module 1: Five steps to disaster risk reduction financing
In this module, you will be introduced to UNDRR’s five-step approach to developing national financing frameworks. This comprehensive approach supports countries in assessing and developing financing solutions for disaster risk reduction that are suited to their local context and take into consideration public, private and international financing sources and mechanisms.
Module 2: Understanding the Financial Impact of Disasters
In this module, you will learn how to estimate both direct and indirect costs of disasters in a country using existing methodologies and tools to build the case for disaster risk reduction investments.
Module 3: Analyzing the Current Financial Landscape.
In this module, you will learn how to assess existing flows of disaster risk reduction financing from public, private, and international sources by budget tagging and tracking disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation expenditures and conducting a financial landscape survey.
Further reading
An innovative approach to release funds for disaster preparedness and response according to predefined triggers before a crisis occurs.
These resources explore the economic, social and environmental dividends of investing in disaster risk reduction.