Incorporating gender in Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (DRFI) projects: a practical guide

This note provides guidance for project teams to integrate gender considerations into disaster risk financing and insurance (DRFI) activities and policies. It is one element of a broader effort by the World Bank’s Global Shield Financing Facility (GSFF) to equip disaster risk finance (DRF) practitioners and country counterparts (government, private sector, and nongovernmental organizations [NGOs]) with tools that enable them to systematically analyze and address gender inequalities that are relevant to DRFI. GSFF was launched in November 2022 to help developing countries access more financing for recovery from natural disasters and climate shocks.

GSFF has a dedicated gender strategy (2023) that maps out the overall high-level approach to integrating gender equality in facility-financed projects. The facility supports the Global Shield Against Climate Risks, a joint initiative by the G-7 and V20 to better protect poor and vulnerable people from disasters by prearranging more financing before disasters strike. The target audience(s) of this note include World Bank staff working on DRFI projects, gender staff at the World Bank, government counterparts, Global Shield partners, and other practitioners in the DRFI space.