Process learning for disaster risk financing

This guidance document offers practical steps on how to capture lessons from Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) initiatives, providing an opportunity for real-time reflection and feedback for those designing and implementing DRF systems, as well as key partner organisations. The guidance is designed to help capture and communicate learning on what is working well, which assumptions are holding true (or not) and what needs to be adjusted or changed. This guidance builds on and complements the Centre’s ‘7 Keys to Unlock Effective DRF’.

Process learning is the act of capturing, sharing, and integrating important lessons that emerge while in the process of developing and refining a new approach to complex problems. Process learning is particularly relevant to the characteristic of constant improvement – embedding scrutiny and learning into DRF initiatives to ensure quality and effectiveness. It allows to document and discuss the benefits and challenges, as well as to learn about and adjust the underlying assumptions about how DRF works best.