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Risk Finance for the Developing World

Event

Apr 25, 2018

19:33 UTC

London, United Kingdom

UCL Finance Event

The billionaire philanthropists intent on using satellites to save the world

Data analysis – Feb 27, 2017

Satellite antennas are pictured at the technical center of Signalhorn company in Leuk, Switzerland, in this 2016 archive photo.

Drones help communities map flood risk in Dar es Salaam slums

Tanzania – Jan 10, 2017

A community member in Dar es Salaam carries a drone for mapping.

BLOG: How do economies bounce back after a disaster?

Business – Mar 1, 2017

Woman carrying water in Woukpokpoe village, Benin.

Newest technologies becoming weapons in fight for land rights

Communication – Mar 20, 2017

Visitors look at a drone at the booth of Chinese company Yuneec at the world's biggest computer and software fair, CeBit, in Hanover, Germany March 20, 2017.

Colombia's City of Women rebuilds homes and hopes

Women – Mar 27, 2017

(R to L) Maritza Marimon, Everlides Almanza and Ana Luz Ortega, members of the League of Displaced Women who built Colombia’s City of Women, have a meeting at the community centre in the Municipality of Turbaco, near the city of Cartagena in northern Colombia, February 13, 2017. TRF/Anastasia Moloney

High-res mapping and locals join forces in India to restore deforested land

Forests – Mar 28, 2017

A man walks under a barricade pole installed to check passing vehicles by Indian forest officials at the remote district of Kandhamal in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in this 2012 archive photo.

Brazil's land titles programme improves Amazon forest protection - research

Forests – Apr 5, 2017

Sawmills that process illegally logged trees from the Amazon rainforest are seen near Rio Pardo, in the district of Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, in this 2015 archive photo.

New study on resilience helps governments prevent disaster-related loss

data – Apr 7, 2017

via News Wise

The Preston model: UK takes lessons in recovery from rust-belt Cleveland

Finance – Apr 18, 2017

via The Guardian

App helps Kenya’s small farmers tackle pests, map crops

Farming – Apr 21, 2017

Farmer weighing his produce in Meru County, Kenya, December 1, 2015. TRF/Caroline Wambui

Medication, money and maps: How to fight a debilitating eye disease

Disease control – Apr 21, 2017

In this 2009 archive photo Egyptian children drink and wash in water from a hand pump in Qalyoubia village north of Cairo.

Next era of market finance for resilience

Finance – Apr 27, 2017

via Meeting of the Minds

As droughts worsen, phones and radios lead way to water for Niger's herders

Drought – May 9, 2017

A young herder poses for a photo at a meeting to discuss climate forecasts in Tillabery, Niger, on April 18, 2017.

Satellites find "hidden forests" helping fight against global warming

Forests – May 12, 2017

Senegalese workers gather grass to feed their horses in the shade of baobab trees near Djilakh, Senegal, in this 2008 archive photo.

CityConnect shows you how climate change will impact your own home

technology – May 16, 2017

via TechCrunch

Combating climate change could boost G20 economies, OECD says

Finance – May 23, 2017

A man wearing a face mask walks on a bridge in front of the financial district of Pudong amid heavy smog in Shanghai, China, December 15, 2015.

Community Magic: Community-based asset mapping establishes new connections for fire adaptation

Commercial building – Jun 9, 2017

via Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network

As Colombia's FARC disarms, rebels enlisted to fight deforestation

Deforestation – Jun 9, 2017

Forests in Colombia’s southern province of Caqueta

Zilient Webinar: Financial inclusion efforts to reduce the world’s underbanked population

Finance – Jun 13, 2017

Zilient Webinar: Financial inclusion efforts to reduce the world’s underbanked population