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Property insurance in the post-Katrina world
1. This material is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or
sale of a financial instrument. Securities or investments, as applicable, are
offered in the (i) United States through MMC Securities Corp., a US
registered broker-dealer and member NASD/SIPC, and (ii) European Union
through Marsh Advanced Risk Solutions Ltd. (“MARS LTD”), regulated by
the Financial Services Authority for the conduct of investment business in
the United Kingdom. Reinsurance products are placed through qualified
affiliates of Guy Carpenter. MMC Securities Corp. and MARS Ltd. are
affiliates of Guy Carpenter.
2. The information in this section first appeared in an article by Liam Pleven,
‘Bracing for the worst – believed at risk of a major hurricane, Northeast
chafes as insurers pull out,’ The Wall Street Journal 31 May 2006.
Taking risk off the backs of the poor: Afat Vimo disaster insurance
1. International Labour Office. (2005). India: an inventory of microinsurance
schemes. Geneva: ILO.
2. Government of India. (2002). Tenth Five Year Plan 2002-2007. New Delhi: GoI.
3. Lester, R. and Gurenko, E. (2003). ‘India: financing rapid onset natural
disasters in India: a risk management approach.’ World Bank Report No.
26844-IN. New York: World Bank.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. National Centre for Disaster Management (India). (2002). Gujarat earthquake:
a case study. New Delhi: NCDM.
7. Churchill, C.; Liber, D.; McCord. M.; and Roth, J. (2003). Making insurance
work for microfinance institutions: a technical guide to developing and delivering
microinsurance. Geneva: ILO.
8. Vakis, R. (2006). ‘Complementing natural disaster management: the role of
social protection.” World Bank SP Discussion Paper No. 0543. Washington, DC:
World Bank.
9. All India Disaster Mitigation Institute. (2002), Community Survey: Gujarat
Earthquake 2001, AIDMI and ProVention.
10. Established after the 1998 Kandla cyclone, the Livelihood Relief Fund (LRF) of
AIDMI has supported livelihood recovery of 12,912 victims to date. This
demand driven and tailor-made relief has worked in 2001 Gujarat earthquake,
2002 riots, 2005 tsunami, 2005 Gujarat floods, and 2005 Jammu and Kashmir
earthquake.
11. Mechler, R.; Linnerooth-Bayer, J.; and Peppiatt, D. (2006). Microinsurance for
natural disaster risks in developing countries: benefits, limitations and viability.
Geneva: ProVention/IIASA.
12. International Labour Office. (2005). Op. cit.
13. Anderson, M. and Woodrow, P. [1989](1999). Rising from the ashes:
development strategies in times of disaster. London: IT Publications.
14. Roth, J.; Churchill, C.; Ramm, G.; and Namerta. (2005). ‘Microinsurance and
microfinance: evidence from India’. CGAP Working Group on microinsurance.
“Good and Bad Practices: Case Study #15”. Available at:
Microinsurance for natural disaster risks? Insights from a ProVention/IIASA
research initiative
1. See
Top of the class! Governments can reduce the risks of disasters through schools
1. The review, as yet unpublished, is entitled Let our children teach us! A review of
education and knowledge in disaster risk reduction. The researcher and author is
disaster risk reduction expert Ben Wisner ). The review was
commissioned on behalf of the ISDR system Thematic Cluster/Platform on
Knowledge and Education. This article coincides with the UN two-year World
Disaster Reduction Campaign ‘Disaster Prevention Starts at School’, which
was launched in June 2006.
2. See
3. President Bill Clinton, UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, spoke of the
“last mile in disaster preparedness” at the Third International Early Warning
Conference in Bonn, Germany, March 2006. Highlights of the speech at:
4. The ProVention Consortium has developed a community risk assessment
toolkit that details the various community vulnerability assessment tools
available:
5. This tool has been developed over five years and has informed the design of
many programmes. The systematic process involves communities and other
stakeholders in an in-depth examination of their vulnerability, whilst at the
same time motivating preventative action. See
for more information.
6.
Disaster reduction in schools
1. The Challenge of Global Empowerment: Education for a Sustainable Future.
Daisaku Ikeda.
2. Inamura no Hi. Tsunami Awareness Education Material,
3. School Awareness and Safety Programme:
4. Social science syllabus for classes IX & X .
5. SEEDS School Safety Programme:
The radio at school: transmitting knowledge and awareness for mitigation of
natural risks
1. The project is a component of the ProVention Consortium, which manages a
second Applied Research Grants Programme for Disaster Risk Reduction, with
the University of Wisconsin Disaster Management Centre
) and the collaboration of other disaster centres.
2. About the author:
Education: Master in Social Psychology, in progress since October 2004,
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza,
Argentina. First degree: Psychology, Aconcagua University, Mendoza,
Argentina, August, 2002; Thesis: ‘Evaluation of human resources that are
encouraged to intervene in the prevention and assistance to disasters.’
Research experience: Research Advisor, in the research title: Prevention –
Mitigation of technological risks in our region from the Strategic Communication,
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, Jan. 2003 to Feb. 2005.
Team leader of the project: Study of awareness of earthquake risk in the
population of Mendoza, ProVention Consortium Disaster Risk Reduction
Research Grant c/o Disaster Management Facility of The World Bank (It was
declared of interest by the Direction of Civil Defense), July 2003 to Jan. 2004.
Member of ‘Psychologists without Frontiers’ NGO.
Contact information: E-mail: ;
Disaster management graduate training: a contribution towards risk reduction
in SADC
1. Government Gazette no. 26390, 2004:
Institutional policy: concept for integral risk management
1. ISDR (2004): Living with Risk – A Global Review of Disaster Reduction
Initiatives. United Nations Inter-Agency Secretariat of the International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR).Geneva. 555 S
2. Ammann, Walter J. (2006): ‘Risk concept, integral risk management and risk
governance’ in Ammann, W. J., Dannenmann, S., Vulliet, L. (Eds). RISK 2:
coping with risks due to Natural hazards in the 21st century . Balkema, Taylor and
Francis Group, London. 3-23.
3. Ibid.
Australia’s aid programme: promoting effective disaster risk management in the
Asia Pacific region
1. Asian Development Bank (2002) Central Vietnam Water Resources Investment
Strategy .
2. Asian Development Bank (2000) Natural Disaster Mitigation for Central
Vietnam – Findings of the Multi-Donor Mission.
3. Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd (KBR) led the design and is implementing the
QNNDMP.
4. Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd (2002) Project Design Document – Natural
Disaster Mitigation Project of Quang Ngai.
Building local resilience for community transformation in three
Latin American countries
1. About World Vision:
World Vision is an international partnership of approximately 100 offices
around the world, which exist to facilitate the reciprocal exchange of
resources and skills between the developed and the developing world in order
to enable the most vulnerable to live productive, self-reliant lives in their
communities. World Vision International (WVI), located in Monrovia,
California, serves a coordinating and facilitating function on behalf of national
offices by providing regional management, technical resources,
communications services, training, evaluation and fiscal accountability.
World Vision (WV) commenced operations in Honduras in 1974 as the
result of Hurricane Fifi with rehabilitation and reconstruction projects. It was
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