Europa Re is proud to announce that on October 2020 became a member in the InsuResilience Global Partnership (IGP), a community dedicated to strengthening the resilience of developing countries to climate events and to protect the lives and livelihoods of poor and vulnerable communities against the impacts of disasters.Natural disasters are a major impediment to the development in many countries, undermining sustainable growth, threatening earlier achievements in poverty alleviation and leading to loss of lives and livelihoods. Due to climate change, extreme weather events are expected to increase in frequency and intensity. In this challenging environment, the role of the Partnership is to promote and enable the adoption of disaster risk financing and innovative insurance approaches as part of comprehensive disaster risk management strategies, integrated with preparedness, response and recovery plans anchored in country systems.
Europa RE as a new member in the partnership is eager and excited to work with more than 75 partners from governments, civil society, international organizations, private sector and academia who are dedicated and committed in closing the protection gap and strengthening resilience in the long run. ERe will share applicable expertise, tools, products and innovative solutions for financial risk management, contribute to public–private partnership, identify information gaps and usability of financial risk solutions, thus supporting the IGP work towards achieving its vision and objectives.
The company will share its experience and in-depth knowledge thought its involvement in the Risk Data and Integrated Approaches working groups and will be an active participant in the Gender working group.
About InsuResilience Global Partnership (IGP): The InsuResilience Global Partnership for Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance Solutions was launched at the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn. The partnership aims to strengthen the resilience of developing countries and protect the lives and livelihoods of poor and vulnerable people against the impacts of disasters. The main objective of the partnership is to enable more timely and reliable post-disaster response and to better prepare for climate and disaster risk by using risk finance and insurance solutions. Since its launch, more than 75 members have joined the partnership. Among the partners are the World Bank Group, the United Nations Development Programme, OECD, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and Munich Re.
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Europa RE Contact point for InsuResilience Global Fund: Nadica Jovanovska Boshkovska Head of Europa RE Representative office N. Macedonia and Project Director for InsuResilliant Solution Fund projects for N. Macedonia and Serbia nadica.boshkovska@europa-re.com www.europa-re.com |
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Registered office InsuResilience Secretariat: Secretariat c/o Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 40 53113 Bonn, Germany secretariat@insuresilience.org www.insuresilience.org |