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GIIF Country Profile: Mali

Content owner: 
Global Index Insurance Facility
Author: 
Pavis Devahasadin and Carole Sagbo
Language: 
English and French
A newly designed Global Index Insurance Facility's Country Profile for Mali is available for digital viewing. The document contains an overview of GIIF's project in Mali and partner, PlaNet Guarantee. Also available in French .
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Ghana: Agricultural Insurance Pool Rolls out Scheme for Farmers

Mon, 01/23/2017
Country: 
Ghana
The Ghana Agricultural Insurance Pool (GAIP) has rolled out a scheme that will make insurance for farmers easy to access, Ghana's Graphic Online reports . “The future is bright for agricultural insurance, what we need now is for farmers to embrace it. That is why we are working towards that. Because we have financial institutions who have expressed interest to partner with us and whatever they lend to farmers would have an insurance component, so that in the bad years the farmers would be comfortable and the financial institutions would be comfortable,” said General Manager Alhaji Ali...
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GIIF Country Profile: Zambia

Content owner: 
Global Index Insurance Facility
Author: 
Pavis Devahasadin
Language: 
English
A newly designed Global Index Insurance Facility's Country Profile for Zambia is available for digital viewing. The document contains an overview of GIIF's project in Zambia and partner Mayfair Insurance. Read more about this program.
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Designed in Davos, Tested in Zimbabwe: Insurers are Banding Together to Pioneer Crop Insurance in Africa

Fri, 01/13/2017
Topics: 
Product design
Bloomberg BusinessWeek wrote an article that discusses crop insurance in Africa, whose potential to benefit the region's farmers remains relatively unlocked. "Africa has struggled to marshal the necessary resources to unlock their agricultural potential. Gains in one area, such as better seed, are often stymied by deficits in others—not enough grain silos. Getting smaller farmers plugged into credit networks would help spur investment and bring new producers to markets," says Ulrich Hess, a senior adviser to Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. In Africa, index insurance...
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GIIF Country Profile: Senegal

Content owner: 
Global Index Insurance Facility
Author: 
Pavis Devahasadin and Carole Sagbo
Language: 
English and French
A newly designed Global Index Insurance Facility's Country Profile for Senegal is available for digital viewing . The document contains an overview of GIIF's project in Senegal and partner, PlaNet Guarantee. Also available in French . Read more about this program.
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Index Insurance Feasibility Study Workshop in Cameroon

Content owner: 
The World Bank Group
Author: 
Pavis Devahasadin and Carole Sagbo
Language: 
English, French
At the request of the Government of Cameroon, the World Bank and the IFC have conducted a feasibility study that seeks to improve the knowledge and understanding of the market opportunity for index insurance. The findings were unveiled in Douala on December 15, 2016, at a workshop jointly organized by the World Bank Group and the Association of Insurance Companies of Cameroon (ASAC). The event was another milestone for Cameroon’s agricultural sector, which is increasingly experiencing shocks due to climate change. In 2015, this sector accounted for 20% of the country’s GDP, approximately US$6...
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In Kenya, Climate change Hits Home as Rivers and Taps Dry Up

Tue, 01/03/2017
Topics: 
General
Country: 
Kenya
As the 2016 short rains came late, Kenya's Meteorological Department had to warn that the shortfall might affect crop production and livestock farming, Kenya's Daily Nation reported. The country and other Southern African nations are currently witnessing two kinds of drought — hydrological and agricultural — both of which are causing disaster as water and food have become scarce, the report added. “We are at the point where people need to adapt. There is need for diversification and shift in the kind of crops to plant, and buying of crop index insurance,” says Department of Meteorology's...
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After a Poor Harvest in Senegal, farmers Find Creative Ways to Carry On

Tue, 01/03/2017
Country: 
Senegal
In an article entitled "After a Poor Harvest in Senegal, farmers Find Creative Ways to Carry On", Oxfam wrote that Senegalese farmers use index insurance to protect their livelihoods from a bad harverst due to poor rainfall. " Farmers can pay the premium with cash, or through a work-for-insurance program designed to help build community infrastructure like rock walls in areas prone to flooding and severe erosion, or small dikes to store water for more gradual use," reads the article. In Senegal, index insurance is provided through the Oxfam and the World Food Programme’s R4 initiative. Click...
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Agriculture Insurance Training in Johannesburg

Content owner: 
Global Index Insurance Facility
Author: 
Nene Souleymane Diouf and Pavis Devahasadin
Language: 
English
Topics: 
General
Product design
Product distribution
More than 30 participants from seven African nations gathered in Johannesburg for two weeks in October 2016 to focus on the fundamentals of index insurance, and to discuss a wide array of development-related topics ranging from product design to project management. The workshop, entitled “Agriculture Insurance Training,” was organized by the World Bank Group’s Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF). Co-managed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), GIIF provides smallholder farmers, rural residents, microentrepreneurs and microfinance institutions with access to finance through the...
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New Climate Data in Zambia Unlocks Insurance Opportunities

Wed, 11/23/2016
Topics: 
Data
Data providers
Country: 
Zambia
In mid September, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) helped launch an innovative new data platform in Lusaka, Zambia that combines satellite rainfall estimates with the country’s existing network of rain gauges. The platform, developed with the Zambia Meteorological Department and through funding from NASA, is the latest to come out of IRI’s Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) initiative which aims to address the persistent problem of data scarcity and lack of access to climate information products in many African countries. The World Bank Group’s...
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