On-going Projects

The ProVention Consortium is currently involved in the following activities, related to its 5 overarching priority areas:

• Mainstreaming Risk Reduction

  • Community Disaster Resilience Fund
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Production Sector Climate Risk Analysis in the Philippines
  • Risk Reduction Indicators
  • Tools for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Urban Master Planning Megacities:
    Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management

• Risk Analysis & Application

  • African Urban Risk Analysis Network (AURAN)
  • Community based Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) in Central America
  • Community Risk Assessment and Climate Adaptation Tools
  • Global Risk Identification Programme
  • Identification and Analysis of Global Disaster Risk Hotspots
  • Tools for Community Risk Assessment and Action Planning

• Reducing Risks in Recovery

  • Learning Lessons from Disaster Recovery
  • Shelter and Reconstruction
  • Strengthening Social Analysis in Rapid Assessment

• Risk Transfer & Private Sector Investment

  • Catastrophe Risk Management Initiative in Bulgaria
  • Corporate social responsibility and disaster reduction
  • Microinsurance pilot scheme
  • Microinsurance research study
  • Multi-hazard risk assessment for disaster risk reduction and financing in Madagascar

• Expanding Risk Research & Learning

  • Partners for Humanitarian and Risk Education Expansion (PHREE-Way)
  • ProVention Forum
  • Research & Action Grants for Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Training and Learning Circles

Completed projects

Since 2000, ProVention has initiated many initiatives and research studies in the area of risk identification, risk reduction, risk transfer and knowledge sharing. These completed activities include:

• Critical Infrastructure, Disaster Vulnerability and the Role of the Private Sector
• Economic and Financial Impacts of Natural Disasters:
  An Assessment of Their Effects and Options for Mitigation
  
• Improved Database for the Social and Economic Analysis of Disaster Impacts
• Innovations in Managing Catastrophic Risk: How Can They Help the Poor?
• Methodology and Standards for Damage and Needs Assessments
• Modeling the Macroeconomic Impacts of Natural Disasters
• Reducing Flood Risk in Africa
• Solidarity and Opportunity:
  The Potential of Insurance for Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries