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Box21.1R4RuralResilience Initiative fordrought riskmanagement
Countries:Ethiopia,Senegal,Malawi,Zambia
Partners: farmers, localreliefsociety, insurers, reinsurers, ruralbanks,university,gov-
ernmentanddonors
Policyholders: 40,000Smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in
drought-prone regions with a sum insured of USD 2.2 million, premiums of USD
370,000, andpayoutsUSD450,000 (2015)
Fig.21.3 TheR4RuralResilience Initiative
Integratedriskmanagement framework
– Improved resourcemanagement (risk reduction)
– Individual/groupsavings (risk reserves)
– Microinsurance (risk transfer)
– Microcredit (risk taking)
Insurance-for-work program to supplement the government’s “food and cash for
work”ProductiveSafetyNetProgramme(PSNP)
Workprogram includesprojectsforreducingriskandbuildingclimateresilience,such
as improved irrigationor soilmanagement.
SourceWorldFoodProgram&OxfamAmerica2016;WorldFoodProgramme2017
21.4.2 TheExperienceofRegionalRiskPools inPromoting
RiskReduction
The first of three regional sovereign risk pools, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk
InsuranceFacility(CCRIF),wascreatedin2007asamulti-governmentdisaster risk
pooling arrangement with the aim of providing sovereign insurance coverage for
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima