Applying Cost Benefit Analysis at a Community Level: A review of its use for community based climate and disaster risk management
Overview
This report reviews 23 studies that have applied cost benefit analysis (CBA) to assess community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation projects. The review shows that CBA at a community level is adding value to our understanding of the effectiveness of efforts to reduce climate and disaster risk. The report concludes with key messages emerging from the study and outlines recommendations for addressing gaps and moving the agenda forward.
Keywords
- Aid effectiveness
- Cash transfers
- Climate change adaptation
- Climate finance
- Community building
- Corporate responsibility
- Debt
- Debt relief
- Disaster risk management
- Disaster risk reduction
- Disasters
- Drought
- DRR
- Economic growth
- Finance
- Green Climate Fund
- Housing
- Programme management
- Reconstruction
- Research methods
- Sustainable livelihoods approach
- Welfare
- Wellbeing
- World Bank and IMF
- World Trade Organisation
- WTO
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