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21st Feb, 2025
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Developing Insurance for Climate ResilienceThe Humanitarian Finance Forum’s Simon Meldrum explains how the insurance industry can help to tackle the humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.
23rd Aug, 2024
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Why is the world’s humanitarian aid gap getting bigger?Donors are lagging as wars and climate change push global aid needs to record highs, with vulnerable groups hit by the cash crisis.
6th Feb, 2024
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22nd Oct, 2024
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2024 Triggers First-Ever Insurance Payout for Disaster FundFor the first time, an insurance payout has been triggered by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC Disaster Response Emergency Fund (hashtag#DREF), as demands for disaster relief surpassed its ‘deductible’ threshold. Speaking at United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, IFRC Under Secretary General Nena Stoiljkovic said: “For the first time ever a single, worldwide, commercial indemnity insurance policy will pay the emergency humanitarian costs of disasters.”
26th Sep, 2024
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iCHF: Building a Centre of Excellence for Humanitarian FinanceThe International Centre for Humanitarian Finance (iCHF) concept was conceived from the Ditchley Park Initiative Still too important to fail - addressing the humanitarian financing gap to act as an incubator, catalyst, and potential seed funder in the humanitarian finance sector.
15th Jan, 2024
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Humanitarian Finance: A Shared ResponsibilityAhead of the Humanitarian Finance Summit in London (14 February 2025) and The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville (30 June – 3 July 2025), our Humanitarian Finance Forum asserts that innovative and sustainable financing solutions, including market-based approaches are needed to foster long-term resilience beyond traditional aid. The need is substantial and urgent which demands for cross-sector collaboration. It is a shared responsibility that requires concrete commitments with tangible actions from all stakeholders.
10th Feb, 2025
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2024 Year In Review: NewsletterThis edition of our newsletter wraps up 2024, while looking forward to our very first Humanitarian Finance Summit, co-hosted by the Forum and AidEx in London next month. Our 2024 highlights include a spotlight on the Red Cross and Red Crescent Innovative Finance Report, followed by a roundtable discussion on developing a frontloading mechanism for mine action. We also delve into the exciting outcomes of our AidEx Geneva side event, which explored the potential, challenges, and tangible projects supported by private capital in the humanitarian sector. Insights from this important event are also available in the Humanitarian Logistics Association’s inaugural magazine digest. To further enrich your understanding of humanitarian innovative finance, we recommend two insightful must-read papers published last year.
20th Jan, 2025
