The Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) facilitates access to finance for smallholder farmers, micro-entrepreneurs, and microfinance institutions through the provisions of catastrophic risk transfer solutions and index-based insurance in developing countries. GIIF’s regional partners have facilitated more than 13 million contracts, covering over 65 million beneficiaries, with approx. $2 billion in sums insured, reaching over one million with information and access to index insurance. GIIF’s o bjectives are to provide access to financing for the vulnerable; to strengthen the financial