Making disaster risk financing work for risk-affected people

This guidance note is intended as a common framework to support practical approaches to meaningful accountability across the sector, with the aim of assuring financing that is in the best interest of the at-risk communities that it seeks to serve. Accountability is a core principle for making Disaster Risk Finance (DRF) work for risk-affected people. Although DRF actors are widely committed to this, there is not yet a shared understanding of what accountability means and how it should be applied.

This note can be used by anyone involved in DRF, including those promoting, designing, delivering and supporting DRF. Because of the diversity of DRF instruments and approaches, this guidance does not seek to provide rigid guidelines for every instrument or organisation to follow. Instead, it is a basic framework that users can adapt to make it most relevant and useful.