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As the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season kicks off, all 16 member governments of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) have committed for the sixth year in a row to renew their hurricane and earthquake insurance for 2012-2013 and earned themselves a 25% premium rebate.

The document was produced for the Second World Conference on Disaster Reduction, Kobe Hyogo, Japan, January 18-22, 2005 to articulate Caribbean region’s disaster management priority areas for action within the context of the Comprehensive Disaster

The magnitude 4.0 earthquake recorded off the coast of Antigua on 11 May is "a warning that the Caribbean should prepare for a much more severe earthquake to come," says a leading expert.

The member states of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency now have a model flood risk reduction system which can contribute to protecting the lives and property of people at the community level. The system has been developed under the Caribbean Disaster Management Project Phase 2...

This report assesses the specific needs of the sixteen member countries of the Facility to determine how each of the countries views the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), a regional catastrophe fund for Caribbean governments designed

Working Paper # 2012-07, March 2012:

This paper discusses a methodology that makes use of advanced probabilistic catastrophe models to estimate benefits of disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures, especially for low- and middle income countries, which have

This paper explains the parametric insurance system of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) in the event of a hurricane or an earthquake.

This paper explains the excess rainfall parametric insurance product of the CCRIF and Swiss Re Excess Rainfall, which helps to mitigate the short-term cash flow problems small developing economies suffer after major natural disasters.