The document summarizes gaps in disaster risk reduction (DRR) financing and efforts to address them. Key points include: - 321,907 lives lost and $487 billion in direct losses from 2007-2016 due to disasters, with costs increasing from climate change. - Developing Asian countries face an annual average loss of $78 billion and infrastructure financing gap of $1.7 trillion per year. - The Asian Development Bank finances DRR programs and investments in areas like flood management and seismic retrofitting, but these make up only 2.5% of infrastructure spending excluding large countries. - Efforts are needed to strengthen DRR strategies, assessments, knowledge, insurance programs, and leverage more public and private funding

1. UNDP –
DRR Financing Regional Conference
Experience in DRR
financing: What are the
gaps? What has been
done?
Istanbul, Turkey, 4-5 October 2018

2. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; we must do”
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3. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; we must do”
Leonardo da Vinci
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4. 2007-2016:
321,907 lives lost
1.7 billion people affected
$ 487 billion direct physical losses
$133 million loss/day
Disaster losses are increasing in line with
economic growth and of climate change
Average annual loss totals $78 billion over
the long term according to available
models
Source: www.businessinsider.com
ADB’s DMC suffer significant disaster loss

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Disaster Hazards
Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
Floods
Droughts
Earthquakes
Lanslides
Extreme temperatures

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Disaster Risk Hazards
Historic Earthquakes modelled from today’s perspective
Source: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / Chaucer
Expected annual loss for e.g. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz
Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia = USD 2.8bn

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The Infrastructure Finance Gap
Asia Pacific
• US$26 trillion from 2016 to 2030 or US$1.7 trillion per year infrastructure
need including climate change measure are needed for developing Asia
• US$ 241 billion annual climate mitigation and adaptation including the costs
of climate proofing, a subset of climate adaptation
• 2.4% of projected GDP for the 5-year period from 2016 to 2020 (5% without
the People’s Republic of China) is the difference between investment needs
and current investment levels
• Fiscal reforms could help Governments to assume 40% of the gap
• 60% of the gap would have to be filled with private sector financing (an
increase from about $63 billion today to as high as $250 billion a year over
2016–2020)
Source: ADB “Meeting Asia’s Infrastructure Needs, 2017”

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The Protection Gap
Size of the protection gap globally in early 2017

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Costs of Disaster Reduction and Response
Reduce risk to the point where it is no longer Cost efficient to reduce it
any further
Cost of disaster and
climate resilient measures

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ADB Disaster Risk Reduction Activities
• 2.5% of infrastructure investments in developing Asia (10% excluding the
People’s Republic of China and India) were financed by MDBs
• Considerable investments in flood and seismic risk management, e.g.
➢ flood management in selected river basins
➢ sponge city projects
➢ seismic retrofitting of schools
• ADB financing disaster risk reduction program intended to
➢ strengthen countries disaster resilience
➢ promote risk-sensitive land use planning
➢ implement structural, technology- and eco-based solutions
➢ foster institutional capacity development and train builders
➢ help demonstrate the benefits of such investments and stimulate
further investments
• A growing proportion of ADB finance is going to private sector
promoting PPP infrastructure finance projects

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Strengthening the enabling environment
• Assessments of disaster risk, associated fiscal burden and funding gaps
• Development of comprehensive national disaster risk financing strategies
• Strengthening technical knowledge and understanding
• Leveraging funding
• Strengthening insurance supervision and local insurance industry
Development of individual products
• Contingent disaster financing
• Establishing risk pools
• Piloting weather-index crop insurance
• Microfinance-linked products
• Developing Knowledge Products leveraging insurance for more bankable
investments into sustainable infrastructure
ADB Disaster Risk Transfer Activities
A two tier approach

12. Thank you.
Remember Leonardo Da Vinci:
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; we must do”