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Insurance & Risk Finance Secure Development
Development is under threat. Our changing climate undermines development progress and exploits entrenched vulnerabilities, while people continue to be left behind by growing poverty and inequality, technological disruption and environmental degradation. The devastating impacts of COVID-19 have highlighted the fragility of our country and community resilience. Insurance and risk-finance are critical to building resilience and protecting people’s lives and livelihoods from these increasingly interconnected crises.
How do we protect communities and build resilience?
The IRFF works across 5 key workstreams
Faced with increasing health, climate and socio-economic crises, insurance and risk financing protect critical assets, lives and livelihoods, helping prevent people from entering a downward spiral of debt and vulnerability. By building social protections, fostering entrepreneurism and creating new opportunities & freedom of choice, insurance and risk finance also underpin economic growth.
Working with industry and governments across 5 interrelated workstreams, we innovate scalable insurance, risk finance and investment solutions to help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Integrating Insurance into Development
Integrating Insurance into Development
Integrating the analytical capacity and expertise of the insurance industry into development.
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Inclusive Insurance
Inclusive Insurance
Providing a critical pathway to protect communities and broaden financial inclusion.
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Sovereign Risk Finance
Sovereign Risk Finance
Providing countries with assistance to deliver risk finance solutions across development, recovery and humanitarian settings.
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Insuring Natural Capital
Insuring Natural Capital
Investing in risk and resilience that protect natural assets while decreasing community vulnerability.
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Insurance & Investment
Insurance & Investment
Pivoting insurance investors towards SDG-aligned projects in developing countries.
Resources and tools for scaling Insurance & Risk Finance solutions
In collaboration with industry, governments and other partners, the Facility produces policy advice, guidance, tools, methodologies & networks to strengthen country and community resilience to socio-economic, health, climate and other shocks.
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UNDP Insurance & Risk Finance Facility Brochure
The UNDP Insurance & Risk Finance Facility brochure highlights the challenges and opportunities to grow insurance and risk financing, as well as an overview of the Facility’s objectives and 5 interrelated focus areas.
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In pursuit of resilience: assessing threats and trade-offs for risk-informed development in Myanmar and Niger
Designing, implementing and monitoring policies and programmes for sustainable development is particularly challenging in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. This report informs the potential evolution of policies through case study applications of a risk-informed development (RID) approach in two contexts: Myanmar and Niger.
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Mobilizing Insurance Investment in Sustainable Infrastructure
This report breaks down the technical, regulatory, and financing challenges insurers face in scaling investment into climate-resilient infrastructure. It offers solutions and insights into how the UN system and development finance institutions can support the industry to allocate a greater portion of its AUM into this critical asset class.
Global Partnerships & Commitments
The Facility delivers on both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the InsuResilience Global Partnership Vision 2025. Global partnerships include the Tripartite Agreement between BMZ, UNDP and the Insurance Development Forum, with thanks to the German Government for providing significant financial support.
