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Women Farmers in Africa, Asia to Benefit from Climate Insurance

Wed, 01/24/2018
According to a Thomson Reuters Foundation report , The African and Asian Resilience in Disaster Insurance Scheme (ARDIS), led by VisionFund International, the microfinance arm of World Vision, and Global Parametrics, a new venture backed by the British and German governments, is setting up to help up to 4 million poor people in Africa and Asia rebuild their lives after climate disasters. The insurance program will support mostly women farmers and their families, affected by droughts in Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Zambia and Cambodia, and by tropical cyclones in Myanmar.
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French-speaking Workshop on Index Insurance in Senegal

Author: 
Pavis Devahasadin
Language: 
English
In December 2017, 27 participants from various African Francophone nations attended a regional workshop held in Saly, Senegal, to learn about index insurance fundamentals and risk transfer process as well as to discuss and apply the use of agro-climactic data to the design of index insurance products. The five-day workshop entitled, “Fundamentals of Named Peril Index Insurance Risk Transfer Process,” was sponsored by the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), as part of its capacity-building activities intended to stimulate the development and enhancement of index insurance products in...
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Weather Index Insurance in Senegal

Language: 
English/French
Topics: 
Weather index
A new brochure detailing GIIF's involvement with the development of weather index insurance in Senegal is now available for digital viewing. The document contains an overview of GIIF's and stakeholders' actions and tracks the progress of index insurance in the country since its onset in 2009.
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GIIF Country Profile: Kenya

Content owner: 
Global Index Insurance Facility
Language: 
English
Topics: 
General
A newly designed Global Index Insurance Facility's Country Profile for Kenya is available for digital viewing. The document contains an overview of GIIF's project in Kenya with the partner, ACRE Africa. Read more about this program
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Kenyan Herders Have Received Insurance Payouts amid Drought

Wed, 09/06/2017
Topics: 
Livestock
Country: 
Kenya
The World Bank has stated that the Kenya Livestock Insurance Program (KLIP), an index insurance that insures vulnerable pastoralists in the northern counties, has so far paid out about 5.3 million U.S dollars to over 20,000 pastoralists, according to a Xinhua report .
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Rwanda to Host a Regional Conference on Micro-insurance

Wed, 08/30/2017
Topics: 
Public/Legal frameworks
Country: 
Rwanda
Rwanda is hosting the 4th Eastern and Southern Regional Conference on Microinsurance aimed at sharing insights on inclusive insurance business models and strategies, Rwanda's The New Times reports. National agricultural insurance schemes and weather index insurance pilots will be discussed as tools for making agricultural insurance accessible to smallholder farmers.
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The Rise of Agricultural Index-based Insurance in Africa

Wed, 07/26/2017
Simon Kilgour and Mick McArdle at CMS Law-Now have penned an article suggesting that index insurance is gaining momentum in Africa. The article also discusses pros and cons of the innovative insurance provision.
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"Technology and Insurance: Building Resilient Agriculture" in Africa in Africa Re's African Insurance Magazine

Content owner: 
Africa Re
Author: 
Africa Re
Language: 
English
In the latest volume of the African Reinsurer magazine published in June 2017, GIIF Program Manager Fatou Assah discusses how the World Bank is helping African farmers to become more resilient against climate risks through the use of index insurance. The article entitled "Technology and Insurance: Building Resilient Agriculture in Africa", which also interviews AXA's Tanguy Touffut, FINACTU's Denis Chemiller-Gendreau, and African Risk Capacity's Assia Sidibe, examines innovative risk management and insurance, challenges and opportunities in agriculture insurance in the face of climate change...
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Thomson Reuters Foundation: As Drought Bites, Livestock Insurance Aids Pastoralists in Ethiopia

Wed, 07/05/2017
Topics: 
Livestock
Country: 
Ethiopia
Ethiopian pastoralists have received payouts for index-based livestock insurance offered by a local insurance company, Thomson Reuters Foundation reports . In Ethiopia, livestock insurance schemes were initiated by the International Livestock Research Institute, which has been providing technical support for the design and monitoring of the index in the country, the report adds.
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Parametric Insurance: Closing the Protection Gap in Africa

Tue, 06/20/2017
Topics: 
General
Country: 
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
Parametric insurance has the potential to serve a significant developmental role in Africa, as it pays out benefits based on a predetermined index for losses resulting from catastrophic events, Clyde & Co's Max Ebrahim and Wynne Lawrence wrote in Commercial Risk Online . In the article, GIIF's collaboration with ACRE Africa , which is serving the populations in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania, is also cited.
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