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Technology and emerging practices

Technology relevant to disaster and crisis, sovereign and public finance, development finance and insurance and catastrophe: what it can do, the constraints it faces and its consequences for people and institutions.

01Sequence

The order things happen in.

  1. 01Draftsources cited, labels attached
  2. 02Evidence checkevery value traced
  3. 03Independent reviewconflicts declared
  4. 04Editionpublished with its limits
  5. 05Correctiona new version, never a silent edit
02Approach

Evaluate before adopting.

  1. 01

    Need

    Which problem does the technology address, and for whom?

  2. 02

    Evidence

    What has been demonstrated, under what conditions, and what remains untested?

  3. 03

    Constraints

    Cost, skills, infrastructure, data and governance requirements.

  4. 04

    Consequences

    Effects on safety, rights, equity and the environment.

03Change

New instruments and their questions.

ChangeQuestion
Climate resilient debt clausesHow much relief do they give, and at what cost?
Anticipatory financeAre forecast triggers skilful enough at the needed lead time?
Shock-responsive social protectionCan payments reach affected households quickly and accurately?
Satellite and index triggersHow large is basis risk?

For each change, Disaster Risk Finance asks what new dependency, concentration or model risk it creates for ministry of finance risk units, and which of World Bank, UNDRR and Regional pools has addressed it so far.

04Build and test

From idea to tested capability.

Promising work can be built in Foundry and tested under controlled conditions through Universe. No technology is described as proven before it has been tested and reviewed.

05Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

06Questions

Questions and answers.

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