{"id":363278,"date":"2025-07-08T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=363278"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:02:12","slug":"wfp-secures-7-9-million-to-mitigate-climate-driven-drought-in-syrian-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=363278","title":{"rendered":"WFP secures $7.9 Million to mitigate climate-driven drought in Syrian Regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rome, SANA-The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received $7.9 million in payouts under a drought insurance policy developed in collaboration with insurance providers Howden, Hiscox, and Swiss Re.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mathieu Dubreuil, Lead Advisor for Climate &amp; Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance at WFP told Reuters&#8217; insurance-focused news service The Insurer, that \u201cthis is a once-in-50-years event.\u201d He explained that activation of the policy was based on conditions in three regions of Syria\u2014two of which met the full criteria for 100% compensation, while the third qualified for 80%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dubreuil added, that the concept for the policy originated when WFP sought to expand insurance coverage to fragile countries not included in the four existing regional risk pools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gareth Davies, Head of Parametric Solutions at Howden, emphasized that the speed of payout is a key factor in demonstrating the value of this type of insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Etemad\/Manar Salamah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome, SANA-The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received $7.9 million in payouts under a drought insurance policy developed in collaboration with insurance providers Howden, Hiscox, and Swiss Re. Mathieu Dubreuil, Lead Advisor for Climate &amp; Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance at WFP told Reuters&#8217; insurance-focused news service The Insurer, that \u201cthis is a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":363279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363280,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363278\/revisions\/363280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}