The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in the Kyrgyz Republic: Country Diagnostics Assessment

Designed to assess disaster risk financing in the Kyrgyz Republic, this report shows how steps from investing in weather monitoring infrastructure to boosting insurance and risk transfer can cut disaster losses and build financial resilience.

Highlighting extensive risks including earthquakes and floods, the report looks at the application of current solutions and explores how the government can support the development of a stronger DRF enabling environment. Proposing a risk layered structure, it recommends a raft of measures including introducing a disaster financing facility, strengthening data collection, and setting up risk pools to help the country better weather future disaster impacts.