Essays about: "forecast-based financing"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the words forecast-based financing.

1. 6. Forecast-based Financing in Urban Informal Settlements - A Viable Disaster Risk Management Strategy?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Mads Raun; [2018]
   Keywords : Forecast-based financing; disaster risk reduction; preparedness; early action; early warning; urban informal settlements; slums; flooding; inundation; rain; Science General;

   Abstract : Rationale: Urban informal settlements are vulnerable and exposed to hazards. Weather forecasting is possible and provides a “window of opportunity” to push cash or aid to vulnerable dwellers before the disaster strikes. Forecast-based Financing is a framework, which provides this system, and it has had great success with rural pilots. READ MORE

3. 7. Forecast-based Financing: Developing triggers for drought

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Toke Bengtsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Forecast-based Financing; FbF; drought; trigger; Science General;

   Abstract : Forecast-based Financing (FbF) is a rather new concept within the humanitarian world, which enables actors to act before a likely disaster, based on forecasts. In this study, two scoping studies and five interviews with FbF experts were conducted to find out how to develop useful triggers for drought. READ MORE