Evidence Roadmap
The Evidence Roadmap increases the evidence base for CDRFI and promotes learning from innovations
Overview of the Evidence Roadmap
The Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) community needs research and evidence to identify the most impactful and cost-effective solutions, while also creating new innovations to leverage capital and address the most pressing risk management needs.
The Evidence Roadmap was created by researchers, donors, conveners, implementers, governmental and civil society representatives, and other CDRFI expert stakeholders from the CDRFI community and for the CDRFI community.
Building on the InsuResilience Global Partnership’s Pro-Poor Principles and addressing one of main objectives of InsuResilience vision 2025, the roadmap increases the evidence base for CDRFI and moves the focus from innovation to learning.
The Evidence Roadmap aims to gather the most compelling and robust evidence on what works in climate and disaster risk finance and insurance. This will ultimately improve the tangible difference CDRFI can make to the lives of poor and vulnerable people. The Roadmap will guide research and evidence-based activities into the CDRFI arena in the coming years, gathering support behind a common research agenda.
Explore our interactive evidence roadmap below.
quick impact
Insurance literacy: How do people process information and prioritize outcomes and how does that impact CDRFI demand?
Evidence Piece: Mogge, L. & Kraehnert, K. The effect of risk perception on the demand for index insurance in Mongolia (under review).
What is the CDRFI impact on psychosocial factors and subjective wellbeing of people and clients?
Evidence Piece: Fluhrer, S. & Kraehnert, K. (2022) Sitting in the same boat: Subjective well-being and social comparison after an extreme weather event. Ecological Economics, 195, 107388.
How can CDRFI spur adaptive decisions and behaviours before and after shocks?
persistent question
How can products increase value for clients and how do safeguards affect CDRFI supply and demand?
Research Project: “Resilience Plus Innovation Facility” (MRR Innovations Lab/ UC Davis).
What are effective CDRFI solutions for upstream value chain actors in agriculture and other sectors?
What are meso- and macro CDRFI downstream welfare impacts for people and clients?
transformational evidence
What are CDRFI impacts on related risks people face, e.g. in relation to conflict and competition for resources?
How can microinsurance be effectively integrated into sovereign insurance platforms?
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What lessons can be learned from the response to the Covid19 crisis?
What is the impact of preagreed finance for public asset reconstruction?
Re-established public service provision: What impact do speedily reestablished public services make, and does public asset insurance improve it?
What is the political economy of CDRFI?
persistent question
What are the welfare, economic and fiscal stability impacts of macrolevel CDRFI instruments?
What is the cost of inaction?
How to better incorporate CDRFI and public financial management?
How can the lack of demand and CDRFI supplyside challenges be overcome?
transformational evidence
What are the nonfinancial constraints on disaster response that limit CDRFI impact?
How to ensure complementarity and integration of risk-layered CDRFI instruments for national governments?
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What are the incentives and barriers to the use of CDRFI instruments in humanitarian action?
To what extent does CDRFI improve the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of humanitarian operations?
Are risk-layering approaches being used well and if not, why not?
persistent question
What are longerterm impacts of humanitarian anticipatory action and response on households and individuals?
Do subsidies of CDRFI represent good use of public resources in a given context and how is this determined?
How can anticipatory action reach scale?
transformational evidence
What are the opportunities and risks of implementing CDRFI in contexts of conflict and protracted crises?
How effective is the current global risk finance architecture, and what could improve CDRFI timeliness and value for money of CDRFI?
What impact will larger scale creeping changes (e.g. climate change and demographic change) have on CDRFI in the long term?
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Which countries make use of sex-disaggregated CDRFI data to inform climate and disaster risk understanding?
How are gender considerations integrated into macro-level CDRFI related polices and solutions?
What case study examples indicate gender differences in insurance access and usage?
persistent question
What is the value of gendered approaches to CDRFI solutions to increase resilience?
How can CDRFI policy priorities and payouts reduce the gender-specific impacts of disasters on women?
What are successful approaches for removing gender-specific barriers from CDRFI schemes and payout mechanisms?
transformational evidence
How can CDRFI solutions contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment?
Has the integration of gender-related vulnerability data ultimately improved the resilience of women and men?
quick impact
How can risk models and tools be developed to ensure appropriate and targeted use?
How can remote sensing data and local data be combined to design prototype frameworks for data-scarce environments?
persistent question
How can uncertainties be reduced when combining vulnerability and climate modelling?
How can climate-risk modelling be used to facilitate effective disaster recovery?
How can natural resources and nature-based solutions be integrated in risk analytics?
transformational evidence
How to integrate wellbeing metrics/data more directly into climate-risk analysis?
How can collaboration among modelling communities enhance a better understanding of compounding and cascading risks?
How can emerging data and new modelling technologies be utilized to improve CDRFI products?
quick impact
What resilience measurement guidance would support better and more consistent resilience estimation in CDRFI activities?
Evidence piece: Panda and Surminski 2020. Climate and disaster risk insurance in low income countries: Reflections on the importance of indicators and frameworks for monitoring the performance and impact of CDRI. Working Paper.
What is the impact of CDRFI on individuals in traditionally under-researched areas?
What is the impact of CDRFI in non-payout situations?
persistent question
What are the spatio-temporal impacts of CDRFI on resilience?
In what context are climate and adaptation finance, DRR and CDRFI complementary for resilience building?
Research project: “Smart Policy Support for Integrated Climate Risk Management” (IIASA, ISF, ETH Zurich) (02/22 – 04/23).
How does CDRFI protect sociocultural and other non-economic assets?
transformational evidence
Which CDRFI approaches reduce vulnerability and lead to increased development impacts?
How do behavioural changes influence the transformational impacts of CDRFI?
Are there examples of maladaptive effects of CDRFI and how can these be mitigated?
People- and client-focused perspectives on CDRFI take challenges to value-add and beneficial impact of CDRFI on people’s lives as well as businesses sustainability into view, looking at priorities to assess and improve CDRFI impacts on individuals, households, and communities.
quick impact
Insurance literacy: How do people process information and prioritize outcomes and how does that impact CDRFI demand?
Evidence Piece: Mogge, L. & Kraehnert, K. The effect of risk perception on the demand for index insurance in Mongolia (under review).
What is the CDRFI impact on psychosocial factors and subjective wellbeing of people and clients?
Evidence Piece: Fluhrer, S. & Kraehnert, K. (2022) Sitting in the same boat: Subjective well-being and social comparison after an extreme weather event. Ecological Economics, 195, 107388.
How can CDRFI spur adaptive decisions and behaviours before and after shocks?
persistent question
How can products increase value for clients and how do safeguards affect CDRFI supply and demand?
Research Project: “Resilience Plus Innovation Facility” (MRR Innovations Lab/ UC Davis).
Evidence Piece: Kirchner, E., & Musshoff, O. (2022). Client satisfaction and product understanding as drivers for insurance renewal–A case study in Mali.
What are effective CDRFI solutions for upstream value chain actors in agriculture and other sectors?
What are meso- and macro CDRFI downstream welfare impacts for people and clients?
transformational evidence
What are CDRFI impacts on related risks people face, e.g. in relation to conflict and competition for resources?
How can microinsurance be effectively integrated into sovereign insurance platforms?
This theme is aimed at actors involved in macro-level CDRFI products and policies, as well as national micro- and meso-schemes. It is concerned with the research questions where there is greater urgency for evidence if the CDRFI community is to increase understanding, ownership, complementarity, and equity of CDRFI products and policies at the national level.
quick impact
What lessons can be learned from the response to the Covid19 crisis?
What is the impact of preagreed finance for public asset reconstruction?
Re-established public service provision: What impact do speedily reestablished public services make, and does public asset insurance improve it?
What is the political economy of CDRFI?
persistent question
What are the welfare, economic and fiscal stability impacts of macrolevel CDRFI instruments?
What is the cost of inaction?
How to better incorporate CDRFI and public financial management?
How can the lack of demand and CDRFI supplyside challenges be overcome?
transformational evidence
What are the nonfinancial constraints on disaster response that limit CDRFI impact?
How to ensure complementarity and integration of risk-layered CDRFI instruments for national governments?
This theme is aimed at actors from the global community engaging in multiple countries through humanitarian assistance or climate finance, as well as those engaged in supporting or rethinking the global risk finance infrastructure. It focuses on the evidence priorities for understanding and increasing the impact of humanitarian response and global climate finance support, along with the complementarity of various CDRFI products and international structures.
quick impact
What are the incentives and barriers to the use of CDRFI instruments in humanitarian action?
To what extent does CDRFI improve the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of humanitarian operations?
Are risk-layering approaches being used well and if not, why not?
persistent question
What are longerterm impacts of humanitarian anticipatory action and response on households and individuals?
Do subsidies of CDRFI represent good use of public resources in a given context and how is this determined?
How can anticipatory action reach scale?
transformational evidence
What are the opportunities and risks of implementing CDRFI in contexts of conflict and protracted crises?
How effective is the current global risk finance architecture, and what could improve CDRFI timeliness and value for money of CDRFI?
Evidence Piece: Plichta, M. and Poole, L. (2023). The state of pre-arranged financing for disasters 2023. Centre for Disaster Protection, London.
What impact will larger scale creeping changes (e.g. climate change and demographic change) have on CDRFI in the long term?
The Gender Dimensions and Impacts of CDRFI theme is aimed at actors involved in research and action at all levels and focuses on evidence priorities for understanding the heterogeneous impacts and improving the equity of CDRFI solutions.
quick impact
Which countries make use of sex-disaggregated CDRFI data to inform climate and disaster risk understanding?
How are gender considerations integrated into macro-level CDRFI related polices and solutions?
What case study examples indicate gender differences in insurance access and usage?
persistent question
What is the value of gendered approaches to CDRFI solutions to increase resilience?
How can CDRFI policy priorities and payouts reduce the gender-specific impacts of disasters on women?
What are successful approaches for removing gender-specific barriers from CDRFI schemes and payout mechanisms?
transformational evidence
How can CDRFI solutions contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment?
Has the integration of gender-related vulnerability data ultimately improved the resilience of women and men?
The Risk Information and Analysis theme is aimed at actors involved in financing or implementing data collection and model creation and will focus on the evidence priorities for improving the quality of CDRFI products.
quick impact
How can risk models and tools be developed to ensure appropriate and targeted use?
How can remote sensing data and local data be combined to design prototype frameworks for data-scarce environments?
persistent question
How can uncertainties be reduced when combining vulnerability and climate modelling?
How can climate-risk modelling be used to facilitate effective disaster recovery?
How can natural resources and nature-based solutions be integrated in risk analytics?
transformational evidence
How to integrate wellbeing metrics/data more directly into climate-risk analysis?
How can collaboration among modelling communities enhance a better understanding of compounding and cascading risks?
How can emerging data and new modelling technologies be utilized to improve CDRFI products?
The Resilience Outcomes theme is aimed at actors involved in research and action at all levels and will focus on the evidence priorities for resilience measurement and for understanding and improving the climate resilience and adaptation impacts of CDRFI products.
quick impact
What resilience measurement guidance would support better and more consistent resilience estimation in CDRFI activities?
Evidence piece: Panda and Surminski 2020. Climate and disaster risk insurance in low income countries: Reflections on the importance of indicators and frameworks for monitoring the performance and impact of CDRI. Working Paper.
What is the impact of CDRFI on individuals in traditionally under-researched areas?
What is the impact of CDRFI in non-payout situations?
persistent question
What are the spatio-temporal impacts of CDRFI on resilience?
In what context are climate and adaptation finance, DRR and CDRFI complementary for resilience building?
Research project: “Smart Policy Support for Integrated Climate Risk Management” (IIASA, ISF, ETH Zurich) (02/22 – 04/23).
How does CDRFI protect sociocultural and other non-economic assets?
transformational evidence
Which CDRFI approaches reduce vulnerability and lead to increased development impacts?
How do behavioural changes influence the transformational impacts of CDRFI?
Are there examples of maladaptive effects of CDRFI and how can these be mitigated?