CCRIF has developed a training programme to assist countries and specifically finance, disaster management, environmental management and meteorology officers and other key technocrats with enhancing their understanding of not only CCRIF policies and the country risk profiles that underpin these policies but also the linkages between ex-ante and ex-post disaster financing and the linkages with fiscal and economic policies and sustainable development generally.
The development of this training programme is in response to stakeholder assessments of CCRIF which showed that there is a need for training to better understand CCRIF policies, the nature of parametric policies, the linkages between natural disasters and fiscal and debt sustainability and their own country risk profile.
CCRIF launched the training programme in December 2016 in Saint Lucia and will delivered it to all member countries on a country-by-country basis.
The course is divided into four modules as follows:
- Ex-ante and Ex-post Risk Financing
- CCRIF’s Parametric Policies
- Overview of Individual Country CCRIF Policies
- Introduction to the Real-Time Forecasting System (RTFS)
The Training Programme will support the discussion of the renewal of the country’s CCRIF policies for 2017/2018 – which will take place within the next 1-2 months in time for the new policy year that begins on June 1st.
