Pooled funding mechanisms and large-scale disasters

If a disaster occurs in a country where pooled funds already exist they can prove an important tool for coordinating emergency, reconstruction and recovery aid and ensuring that needs are met. Occasionally a fund will be created specifically to pool contributions to the relief or reconstruction effort if one does not already operate in country.

The use of these funds following a large-scale disaster has been illustrated in this report by looking at the cases of Haiti and Pakistan in 2010.