Karim Traore, President of Burkina Faso's National Union of Cotton Producers, speaks about the cotton farmer's experience with agricultural index-based insurance in a new GIIF Result Stories. “It would be difficult for me to provide exact data, however, I can tell you that index insurance strongly encourages farmers in their work, and we are finding that cotton production has increased in all of the areas where farmers have subscribed to it," says Mr. Traore. The Result Stories is part of a new bilingual series produced in 2017 to capture farmers' experiences with index insurance in Burkina

A newly designed Global Index Insurance Facility's Country Profile for Bangladesh is available for digital viewing. The document contains an overview of GIIF's project in Burkina Faso and partner, Green Delta Insurance Co. Ltd.

A newly designed product detail brochure for Earthquake Index Insurance (EQII) is available for digital viewing. Since 2014, PT Reasuransi MAIPARK and GIIF have been developing EQII, a new insurance product that triggers an automatic payout based on pre-determined earthquake parameters. EQII is designed to protect the lending portfolios of banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) from liquidity crises in the aftermath of an earthquake. The intended insured party of this product is a bank/MFI. Also available in Bahasa Indonesia.

A newly designed Global Index Insurance Facility's Country Profile for Mozambique is available for digital viewing. The document contains an overview of GIIF's project in the country with Partner Holllard Mozambique.

Mr. Ndianko Sakho, a Senegalese millet producer, speaks about his experience with agricultural index-based insurance in a new GIIF Result Stories. "In the past, farmers had no climate risk management tool. Today with the introduction of agricultural insurance, I can say that some of our concerns are taken into account. The real challenge right now is to set up a national network of coverage in order to allow all Senegalese farmers to have access to agricultural index micro insurance," says Mr. Sakho. The Result Stories is part of a new bilingual series produced in 2017 to capture farmers'

A newly designed Global Index Insurance Facility's Country Profile for Burkina Faso is available for digital viewing. The document contains an overview of GIIF's project in Burkina Faso and partner, PlaNet Guarantee. A French version is also available.

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.

ILO's Impact Insurance Facility, in partnership with WBG's Global Index Insurance Facility, USAID, and Basis/I4-supported Global Action Network , hosted a webinar on index insurance that touches upon the variety of interventions such as provision, administration and management of subsidies, support for developing infrastructure for effective implementation of insurance programmes, investment in collection, and sharing of data and consumer education. In addition, the government's role in developing enabling regulations and using insurance as a part of their social protection and agriculture

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.

In November 2016, the World Bank Group’s Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), in collaboration with the International Labor Organization and Munich Re Foundation, organized a conference workshop entitled “Building Sustainable Agriculture Programs” in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Delivered as part of the 12th Annual Micro Insurance Conference, the daylong technical workshop brought together more than 50 participants from the public and private sector, donors, and development partners. Amena Arif, IFC country manager for Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and Rolande Simone Pryce, advisor from the World Bank