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Financing resilience against natural disasters: summary report

One of the most discussed issues of modern times is that of problems related to the scarcity of funds in dealing with the increasing catastrophic events due to volatile climatic conditions. Disaster Risk Resilience (DRR) can be interpreted as global policies working for improving disaster risk reduction and building efforts for resilience worldwide. The report analyses the applicability of popular instruments for emerging economies, the role of the private sector, and challenges to implementation of resilience framework.