The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)
Regional work of Disaster Risk Finance across the six Consortium regions, each shown with its status. The regions are Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and North America.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
The Disaster Risk Finance regions page maps its work on disaster and crisis across the six Consortium regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and North America. A regional entry appears only where a programme record supports it, with its status.
For regional exposures, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Pacific Island states; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.
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For regional exposures, in GRA's spatial-finance reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water with built-up and settlement extent from NASA GIBS, framed on Pacific Island states; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
Layers and dates
Retention, contingency and external risk transfer.
Disaster costs and budget exposures.
Pools and insurance readiness.
Triggers and preparedness evidence.
Liquidity timing and recovery resources.
Risk-sensitive budget and capital projects.
Regional features in Disaster Risk Finance are summarised from public records.
| Region | Feature |
|---|---|
| Caribbean | CCRIF SPC |
| Africa | ARC |
| Pacific | PCRIC |
| Southeast Asia | SEADRIF |
Regional differences matter for Disaster Risk Finance because World Bank standards are adopted at different speeds, and hazards and market structure differ. A regional entry would cite loss history, modelled fiscal loss, instruments.
Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Subsidiarity | The principle that a decision is taken at the lowest level able to take it well, with a higher level acting only where the objective cannot be achieved closer to the people concerned; the Treaty on European Union states it. |
| Multi-level governance | Shared decision-making across local, regional, national and international levels of government. |
| Programme status | The recorded state of a programme on Nexus pages: exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. A plan is never presented as an activity. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.