Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance

Early Warning Systems that focus on single hazards often fail to capture the full range of risks communities face, leading to fragmented and inefficient response efforts. The Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance is working with communities around the world to close these gaps through the development of multi-hazard approaches.

Communities around the world are suffering devasting - sometimes even fatal - consequences from climate disasters, that's why reducing risk is a key part of our work. Previously in Kenya, disaster-related budget allocations were not specific and could be drawn to respond to any form of disaster, meaning that there was often little, or no money left over following flood disasters. Through community advocacy work in Tana River County, Concern Worldwide influenced the Tana River County government to increase its budget allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction from 2% to 10%. During the 2023 floods in Tana River County, these allocated funds supported better preparedness, response and community recovery. Pictured is Fatuma Wario, with a newly constructed bridge in Handaraku village in Kenya. She said was born and raised in Handaraku. This bridge has been welcomed as a symbol of progress and safety as the old one was makeshift and there were dangers of falling into crocodile-infested waters or farms being flooded previously. Read more about Concern's work with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance here: https://lnkd.in/da-eXviE

In Gia Lai (formerly Binh Dinh) province, Vietnam, many communities receive flood early warnings but don’t always know what actions to take or how to evacuate. In one ward, we partnered with local and provincial authorities to co-develop evacuation maps and response plans with the community. Similar efforts are now underway in other parts of the province to reduce communities’ flood risk. #ResiliencePays #IDDRR2025 🔗 Have a look at this video to learn more: https://ow.ly/uW4M50Xacay

Using a combination of a budget study to illustrate the lack of spending on resilience, effective messaging around Disaster Risk Reduction investment, and community resilience data to highlight community needs, Mercy Corps and UNDP influenced the adoption and disbursement of a 5% budget provision for resilience activities in Sudurpaschim province, Nepal.     More here: https://lnkd.in/euyAy9w8 #DRRday #ResiliencePays

Previously in Kenya, disaster-related budget allocations were not specific and could be drawn to respond to any form of disaster, meaning that there was often little, or no money left over following flood disasters.     Through community advocacy work in Tana River County, Concern Worldwide influenced the Tana River County government to increase its budget allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction from 2% to 10%. During the 2023 floods in Tana River County, these allocated funds supported better preparedness, response and community recovery.     More here: https://lnkd.in/da-eXviE #DRRday #ResiliencePays

Following a review of the 2020 floods caused by Cyclone Amphan, Practical Action in Bangladesh identified significant gaps in the capacity of Union Parishads to manage disaster risk, with a key drive being the lack of local-level financing for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).    In collaboration with Concern Worldwide, Practical Action combined evidence from this review and other local-level work that showed the effects of limited financial resources, and then developed targeted written materials and workshops on improving local allocations for DRR.     As a result of these combined efforts, the government welcomed the idea of establishing special budgets for char areas, and allocated money from a national programme to Union Parishads for DRR for the first time.     Read more about this in our new impact report: https://lnkd.in/euyAy9w8 #DRRday #ResiliencePays

Today's the day! We've got a great line-up of speakers ready to share their insights on the current state of finance: Laetitia Pettinotti, Ben Abraham, Tara E. Daniel, John Nordbo & Anna Beswick. See you at 15.00 CEST!

Since 2021, ODI Global and the Alliance have been working together on assessing which countries are paying their 'fair share' of finance to support developing countries as they respond and adapt to the challenges of the climate crisis. Join us tomorrow, Thursday 9 October at 15.00 CEST for a preview of the latest report in the series! Sign up here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eVfcffvt Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment

Just two days to go now until our webinar on climate finance with Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance! Ahead of COP30 next month, our Research Fellow Laetitia Pettinotti will present findings from our latest report – ‘A fair share of climate finance? An assessment of quantity and quality'. Find out more and register ⤵️ #ClimateFinance #COP30