Events
Sep
11
Year:
2018
GIIF Financial Sector Specialists will attend " 2018 Development Finance Forum: Unlocking Investment Opportunities in the East African Community " in Kigali, Rwanda. This year’s Development Finance Forum (DFF) in Kigali will bring together business leaders, policymakers, thought leaders and financiers from private and public sectors in the EAC and beyond to drill down together on what can be done to start to address some of the biggest challenges to scaling up private investment in housing, agribusiness, and tourism in East African Community (EAC) countries.
Dec
4
Year:
2017
Expériences et Avenir de l’Assurance Agricole Agriculture Insurance: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward L’assurance agricole indicielle peut contribuer de manière significative à l’adaptation aux changements climatiques, la résilience face aux catastrophes naturelles et à l’amélioration de la sécurité alimentaire des populations vulnérables dans les pays en développement. Lorsqu'elle est bien conçue, grâce au soutien des secteurs privé et public, les produits de gestion des risques telle l’assurance indicielle peut aider les petits agriculteurs à gérer la pérennité des récoltes, et à
Dec
4
Year:
2017
Agriculture Insurance: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward Index-based agricultural insurance can make a significant contribution to climate change adaptation, resilience to natural disasters, and improved food security for vulnerable populations in developing countries. When properly designed, with private and public support, index insurance is a risk management tool for smallholder farmers to manage the sustainability of their crops and enhance their ability to adapt to climate risks. On the national level, index insurance can also be used to protect governments and businesses against risks
Year:
Finance & Market's Global Index Insurance Facility of the World Bank Group is having an official book launch of Risk Modeling for Appraising Named Peril Index Insurance Products. The groundbreaking publication on modeling index insurance products is a practical guide for the insurance practitioners to design and develop better index insurance in order to ultimately provide protection to more low-income customers, including smallholder farmers in developing countries. The session, moderated by Samuel Munzele Maimbo, Practice Manager in WBG's Finance & Markets, will have the following speakers
Jun
8
Year:
2017
As part of this year's European Development Days (EDD 2017), GIIF hosts a session entitled "Index Insurance: An Innovative Tool for Risk Management and Resilience Building" on June 8, 2017, at Tour & Taxis in Brussels. The 75-minute session, under the event's theme of "Partnering with the Private Sector, explores how building stronger and sustainable public-private partnerships can create market solutions that champion climate change adaptation. Moderated by GIIF Program Manager Fatou Assah, the panel will be joined by: Ken Aghoghovbia , Deputy Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer -
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