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United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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Seven mechanisms for supporting disaster risk reduction  and resilience through cooperative and mutual insurance

Direct mechanisms – for insurance products to reduce disaster risks:

  • Pricing - Apply variable pricing of insurance to provide incentives for risk reduction
  • Prerequisites - Include prerequisites and exemptions to provide incentives for risk reduction
  • Investments - Ensure investment reduces and prevents risk and builds resilience

Indirect mechanisms – for insurance providers to reduce disaster risks:

  • Awareness & Advice - Raise awareness of the systemic nature of risks and provide transparent information and advice for reducing hazards, exposure, and vulnerability
  • Social Capital - Build and share capacity and technology for risk modelling, analysis and monitoring
  • Modelling & Data - Promote and enhance local social capital for responding to disasters and innovating to reduce risks
  • Collaboration - Collaborate with the public sector to signal unsustainable development and support decision making towards disaster risk reduction and risk-informed investment while closing protection gaps

Please use the sorting/search selection below to sort the case studies by reduction mechanism or hazard.

Follow these links for more information on the other ICMIF UNDRR deliverables:

  • ICMIF DRR Report
  • ICMIF Resiliency Benchmark

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From protection to prevention: The role of cooperative and mutual insurance in disaster risk reduction PDF, 7.5 MB English

Last checked: 28 May 2024

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Themes Insurance and risk transfer Private sector Risk identification and assessment
ARISE Priority Insurance
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Number of pages
65 p.
Publication year
2021

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