What role financial instruments can and cannot play in disaster risk management?

Why is this important?

Climate change is exacerbating natural disasters across the world. A growing number of financial instruments are been developed to improve resilience, but stakeholders need an educated perspective to effectively reduce their vulnerability and exposure.

Working session17 May 2019, 11:00 - 12:30Room: Geneva Room (CCV)

• H.E Lamin N. Dibba, Minister of Environment, Gambia• Elke Löbel, Deputy Director-General, German Federal Ministry

for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) • Tamisha Lee, President, Jamaica Network of Rural Women

Producers• Adam Banaszak, EC Committee of the Regions, Vice-President

of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Parliament, Poland• Ann Vaughan, Senior Advisor, Mercy Corps

Speakers