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Relief Web – November 27 2015 Impact Assessment: African Risk Capacity (ARC) University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership – July 2015 Insurance regulation for sustainable… Read More »Journals & Publications
UNFCCC’s CoP21 Devex – December 21, 2015 Africa: $150 million for climate-related disaster risk insurance Artemis – December 17 2015 ARC gets $150m in support… Read More »News archives
How to tackle the funding gap for public health emergencies in Africa: piloting an innovative financing mechanism for outbreaks and epidemics The Problem: A single… Read More »Outbreaks & Epidemics
In order to minimize basis risk – the technical term used to describe the potential mismatch between ARC payouts and country needs – the Secretariat… Read More »Africa RiskView: Customisation
The Africa RiskView models and software products are offered to countries working with the ARC Agency. Its models have been designed to be adapted and customised… Read More »Africa RiskView: Methodology
The first step to establishing a facility such as ARC is understanding — in dollar terms — Africa’s weather-related food security risk. As the technical… Read More »Africa RiskView: Introduction
In January 2012, the ARC commissioned a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to examine the economic advantages and disadvantages of establishing a risk pooling facility as an… Read More »Food Security & Risk Management
Risk pool II, which covers the 2015/2016 rainfall seasons, consists of: Kenya Mauritania Niger Senegal The Gambia Mali Malawi These countries made history by becoming… Read More »Risk Pool II – 2015/2016
The inaugural risk pool, which covered the 2014/2015 rainfall seasons, consisted of: Kenya Mauritania Niger Senegal These countries made history by becoming the first African… Read More »Risk Pool I – 2014/2015