The report represents a selection of projects from the Crisis Risk Finance Analytics program (CRFA), as part of the World Bank Crisis and Disaster Risk Finance work to apply innovative technology for risk finance applications.
It presents the successes and challenges faced by the program to date, highlighting the potential of satellite imagery, Big Data, and advanced analytics techniques to disaster risk finance, as well as the implications of various governance and partnership models with the private and public sectors to bring some of these applications to scale.