B-READY

“Everything begins with the science,” says Global Parametrics founder Professor Jerry Skees. B-READY was Global Parametrics’ first involvement in a project that values and operationalizes communityparticipation in anticipatory financing for DRR.

The Philippines is where the B-READY concept was born and developed. The experience of Oxfam in cashtransfer programming in the country specially during the humanitarian response in the aftermath of STY Haiyanand the connectivity to Global Parametrics led to the pilot implementation of the B-READY...

It has been acknowledged that women and men experience disasters differently. Gender and otherintersecting factors such as socio- economic conditions, cultural beliefs, and traditional practices shapethe disaster experience of individuals, as well as their ability to recover.

Over time, there has been a growing acknowledgment that cash transfer is an efficient strategy for deliveringaid because it provides recipients the power and flexibility to decide and acquire what they need and, in theprocess, jumpstart the local economy.

There are two things that PDRRN values in the B-READY Project – forward thinking and working together. For the network, anticipation and partnership are key to saving lives and building back better, faster.

As an active volunteer and mother-leader herself, there is nothing else that she desires more than her familyand community’s safety in times of calamities and disasters, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Oxfam’s B-READY initiative combines an early warning system for typhoons with digital financial inclusion in helping vulnerable communities. The initiative is powered by strengthened disaster governance.