NEW TOOLKIT-"Building Resilient Communities: Risk Management and Response to Natural Disasters through Social Funds and Community-Driven Development Operations"
This Toolkit is designed to help Task Teams on World Bank social funds and community-driven development (CDD) operations to identify disaster risk management issues in their programs and projects and to design and implement appropriate responses. 

INNOVATION NOTE- “Microinsurance: Extending Pro-Poor Risk Management through the Social Fund Platform”. This Social Funds Innovations Note introduces some of the primary design principles behind microinsurance program development, highlighting cases of best practice, and suggests how Social Funds can be used to deliver microinsurance services more effectively to poor households.
 

On May 27, an event was held in Washington, D.C. to launch the Toolkit "Building Resilient Communities: Risk Management and Response to Natural Disasters through Social Funds and Community-Driven Development Operations".

Introducing concepts of Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM), the Toolkit draws upon experiences of social funds and CDD operations in several countries and established international good practice to identify operational areas where social fund/ CDD operations have a comparative advantage for achieving successful results in reducing natural disaster risks and impacts on poor and vulnerable communities.

Background material for this event can be accessed here.