African Risk Capacity Group

African Development Bank Annual Meetings 2016 – Opening Ceremony – 24 May 2016

African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina endorses the African Risk Capacity and calls on the Green Climate and Environment Funds to pay premium to ARC on behalf of African countries. African Union Chairman and Chad President, H.E.

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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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News archives

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.