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Result Stories: Mali

Result Stories: Mali

Content owner:
Global Index Insurance Facility
Author:
Pavis Devahasadin and Carole Sagbo
Topics:
General
Weather index
In a new GIIF Result Stories, Ms. Bintou Diakite, a founding president of ASEDEFE-YDADE (Association pour la Solidarité, l’Entraide, le Développement Economique de la Femme et de l’Enfant), recounts how index insurance has set female farmers free from the consequences of mishaps due to climate disaster. The Result Stories is part of a new bilingual series produced in 2017 to capture farmers' experiences with index insurance in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Senegal.
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GIIF Country Profile: Mali

GIIF Country Profile: Mali

Content owner:
Global Index Insurance Facility
Author:
Pavis Devahasadin and Carole Sagbo
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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PlaNet Guarantee and GIIF to launch first regional management platform for index insurance

PlaNet Guarantee and GIIF to launch first regional management platform for index insurance

Topics:
Data management
Public/Legal frameworks
Other frameworks
Weather index
Hybrid
Country:
Burkina Faso
Mali
Senegal
PlaNet Guarantee, member of the PlaNet Finance Group, and the GIIF come together to launch the first regional management platform for index insurance. The objective is to cover 60 000 farmers in West Africa by 2015. While agriculture remains the main economic sector in West Africa (on average 30% of the GDP of countries in the region and 70% of the workforce), no risk management tool is offered to farmers to secure their income. In case of drought, floods, or due to other factors that could cause a significant drop in yields, farmers currently receive no form of protection. The traditional
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PlaNet Guarantee - Mali

Market launch:
Country:
Mali
Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
PlaNet Guarantee first sold products in Mali in 2011. The project provided satellite based weather index insurance for cotton/maize farmers in the country, while farmer cooperatives were the main distribution partners.
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Legal and Regulatory Work for 14 countries in Francophone Africa - CIMA (Regional Insurance Industry Body)

Start date:
Country:
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Côte d'Ivoire
Gabon
Guinea
Mali
Niger
Senegal
Togo
Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa

In 2011, at the request of CIMA and FANAF, a regional study on microinsurance was conducted with the technical assistance and financial support from the World Bank. This report showed that a new regional framework was required for microinsurance and agricultural index-based insurance, which had been absent, in the CIMA zone. The member countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo.

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