Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance and Impactful Civil Society Engagement

Language: English

Level: Advanced

This self-paced course is an introduction to climate and disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI) and the political processes surrounding it. This course presents conceptual and policy frameworks, laying the ground for CDRFI, and shows how approaches in this context are functioning in practice. It further demonstrates how CDRFI can be integrated in national policy frameworks and provides insight on CSO engagement and advocacy strategies at the national, regional and international levels. Finally, it sheds light on potential benefits, limitations and challenges of CDRFI solutions.

This self-paced course is a shortened version of the comprehensive eLearning course "Foundations of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) and Impactful Civil Society Engagement", provided by Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) and United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) under the project "Multi-Actor Partnership (MAP) on Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Preparedness in the Context of the InsuResilience Global Partnership" funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Course overview

Module 1: An introduction to climate disaster risk finance and insurance (Time required: ca. 4h)
Module 2: Climate Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance in practice (Time required: ca. 4h 25min)
Module 3: CDRFI integration in national policy frameworks and CSO advocacy (Time required: ca. 2h)
Module 4: CSO Engagement and advocacy strategies at the regional and international levels (Time required: ca. 2h 10min)
Module 5: CDRFI potential benefits, limitations, and challenges (Time required: ca. 3h 5 min)

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