ISF- InsuResilience Solutions Fund

Natural disasters are a major impediment to development in many countries, undermining sustainable development, threatening earlier achievements in poverty alleviation and leading to loss of lives and livelihoods. With climate change extreme weather events such as floods, storms and droughts are expected to increase in frequency and intensity. Aid often comes too little, too late – around one to six months after the disaster has struck - increasing the impacts of natural disasters by twofold and more. As an essential element of comprehensive risk management, climate risk insurance can mitigate the negative consequences providing reliable and fast financial support in the aftermath of extreme weather events.

The mission of the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) is to support innovative solutions to mitigate these negative impacts of climate change. Therefore ISF fosters the development of needs-based and financially sustainable climate risk insurance products in developing and emerging countries, increasing the resilience of poor and vulnerable households against extreme weather events and natural catastrophes. As implementing programme of the InsuResilience Global Partnership the ISF is an important contribution of the German Government funded by KfW Development Bank to achieve the target of the international initiative on climate risk insurance ’InsuResilience’.
The ISF also represents an implementation vehicle for the Tripartite Agreement, for this purpose the Project Coordination Unit (PCU) has been established. For more information visit Frankfurt School’s website.