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Journals & Publications

Relief Web – November 27 2015 Impact Assessment: African Risk Capacity (ARC) University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership - July 2015 Insurance regulation for sustainable development Africa Progress Panel - May 2014 Financing Africa's Green and Blue Revolutions (ARC should be a top

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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 from COP21 countries IRIN - December 11 2015 Briefing on climate financing Der Tagesspiegel - December 11 2015

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Outbreaks & Epidemics

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 Ebola outbreak in 2014-15 in West Africa resulted in over 11,000 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, with estimated overall economic impact of

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Africa RiskView: Customisation

In order to minimize basis risk – the technical term used to describe the potential mismatch between ARC payouts and country needs – the Secretariat engages each potential participating country and its in-country partners in a year-long process to customise Afric

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Africa RiskView: Methodology

The Africa RiskView models and software products are offered to countries working with the ARC Agency.

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Africa RiskView: Introduction

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 engine of the ARC risk pool, Africa RiskView is a core product of the ARC Agency.

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Food Security & Risk Management

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 early response mechanism to severe drought in sub-Saharan Africa.