Impact assessment

African Risk Capacity (ARC)

Helping African governments to insure themselves against natural disasters and respond rapidly when their citizens experience harvest failure.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 27 November 2015
• Last updated: 7 December 2016
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  1. 7 December 2016

     Document text updated

  2. 27 November 2015

     First published.

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

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African Risk Capacity (ARC)

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ARC uses satellite information to predict whether the harvest is likely to have been successful, or failed, and the likely humanitarian response cost. When an insured event occurs, the insured government uses the ARC payout to launch early response activities as set out in their pre-agreed contingency plan.