Worldwide—Centre for Disaster Protection

The Centre for Disaster Protection focuses on managing risks relating to disasters, helping countries move from reaction to readiness, and planning better for future disasters.

The Centre works with a wide range of organizations—country governments, development banks, humanitarian agencies, development insurers, private sector actors, research institutions, and nongovernmental groups—to support partner countries to strengthen their pre-disaster planning and financial arrangements so they can respond more rapidly and effectively when a disaster strikes.

This four-year program has the following goals:

• Deliver a respected and widely used quality assurance function that increases the quantity and quality of risk financing products and services.
• Provide effective technical assistance and capacity building that supports high-risk, vulnerable countries to make better risk management decisions.
• Drive change through evidence, experimentation, and learning that strengthens the global evidence base on risk financing.
• Through advocacy, improve the quality and quantity of risk financing provided through the multilateral system.

As the managing agent, DAI is responsible for delivering high-quality technical expertise, managing the Centre’s Governance Structure and leading the operational aspects of the Centre. This includes playing a key role on the Centre’s Board, leading the operations of the Centre, and delivering the technical assistance facility.