The three-day workshop brought together key stakeholders in Zambia’s insurance industry to advance gender-inclusive insurance solutions. The first day featured a morning session for CEOs of insurance companies, while the next two days engaged technical staff in a deeper discussion. As part of the Zambia Inclusive Insurance Program, IFC is supporting the Pensions and Insurance Authority (PIA) in developing a gender mainstreaming strategy and action plan to make insurance products more accessible and relevant, particularly for women. The workshop aimed to gather feedback on the strategy while

IFC’s Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) and the Wageningen University & Research (WuR) will brief participants on a recently completed review of GIIF’s engagement in Zambia, to understand farmers’ knowledge, perception, and utilization of insurance as well as satisfaction of GIIF’s supported activities in the country. The goal is to review the lessons learned and to receive guidance towards the implementation of GIIF’s future activities in the country, as well as to have an overall understanding of ways to better develop and improve products and services as part of the Facility’s pipeline