Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
📊 In Colombia, data isn’t just information — it’s financial protection.
In the city of Manizales, detailed records of over 1,100 landslides between 2003 and 2021 helped revolutionize disaster risk financing. By linking rainfall data to impact levels, the city created a parametric insurance system — a financial safety net that automatically triggers funding when extreme rainfall hits.
This data-driven approach ensures faster emergency response, supports recovery, and could one day enable early warning and early action across sectors.
But many governments still rely on outdated or incomplete records, limiting their ability to plan for and finance disaster risk reduction. Building strong, disaggregated loss data systems is key to smarter, more inclusive resilience financing — in Colombia and worldwide.
💡 Learn how accurate data can transform the way we fund resilience and protect communities from disasters.
🔗 Discover more about UNDRR’s work on disaster losses and damage data: undrr.org/building-risk-knowledge/disaster-data
#Resilience #Colombia #DisasterRiskReduction #Finance #ClimateAction #DataForResilience #Insurance #RiskInformedDevelopment #ResilientCities #UNDRR
📊 In Colombia, data isn’t just information — it’s financial protection.
In the city of Manizales, detailed records of over 1,100 landslides between 2003 and 2021 helped revolutionize disaster risk financing. By linking rainfall data to impact levels, the city created a parametric insurance system — a financial safety net that automatically triggers funding when extreme rainfall hits.
This data-driven approach ensures faster emergency response, supports recovery, and could one day enable early warning and early action across sectors.
But many governments still rely on outdated or incomplete records, limiting their ability to plan for and finance disaster risk reduction. Building strong, disaggregated loss data systems is key to smarter, more inclusive resilience financing — in Colombia and worldwide.
💡 Learn how accurate data can transform the way we fund resilience and protect communities from disasters.
🔗 Discover more about UNDRR’s work on disaster losses and damage data: undrr.org/building-risk-knowledge/disaster-data
#Resilience #Colombia #DisasterRiskReduction #Finance #ClimateAction #DataForResilience #Insurance #RiskInformedDevelopment #ResilientCities #UNDRR
