NATURAL DISASTER FUND

Impact-driven protection to improve resilience to natural disaster risk

Impact-driven protection to improve resilience to natural disaster risk

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Our team manages the Natural Disaster Fund (NDF), a blended risk transfer vehicle that provides risk capacity to underwrite risks in ODA-eligible countries.

The NDF is a public-private partnership funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and by Germany’s development bank KfW on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Hannover Re offers matching reinsurance capacity to support NDF transactions.

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The NDF also has a dedicated technical assistance facility, which provides catalytic grants aimed at incubating proof of concept projects and innovative products, for high-impact parametric risk transfer.

Visit the NDF website for more information
Visit the NDF website for more information