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Index insurance: What you need to know

Fri, 05/13/2016
Topics: 
General
Weather index
In an article entitled “Index insurance: What you need to know”, Devex interviews Gloria Grandolini, the WBG’s Senior Director, and Gilles Galludec, GIIF Program Manager, on the Global Index Insurance Facility and how index insurance works. To help encourage the spread of index insurance as a risk management tool, GIIF is working with regional partners in developing countries, primarily sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific. Over 1 million small farmers, pastoralists and small businesses have signed on — with over $130 million in sums insured. Click here to...
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Insurance for Small Farms' Crops Takes Root

Fri, 10/30/2015
Topics: 
Data
Satellite data
Weather index
Country: 
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
In a VOA article, the Kilimo Salama projected, funded by the Global Index Insurance Facility and the Syngenta Foundation, is cited for having provided insurance to about 200,000 farmers in east Africa, mainly in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Because it is so expensive to verify losses on large numbers of small landholdings, the traditional type of individual loss-based insurance is not always viable. That has led to index-based insurance for smallholder farmers for weather-related risks. In the long run in the developing world, specialists say, what is needed most is investment in science and...
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Climate-linked Insurance a Boon for Poor Farmers

Wed, 10/07/2015
Topics: 
Data
Satellite data
Product design
Weather index
Poor farmers all over the world are increasingly falling prey to natural disasters, droughts and torrential rain largely due to climate change. But there is some good news as well. Thanks to new technologies, the widespread use of satellites, and more powerful computers, such events can largely be predicted in advance, thus making possible novel and more efficient insurance schemes for those at risk. In an interview with AFP, Gilles Galludec, Program Manager of the World Bank-run Global Index Insurance Facility discusses how index insurance schemes differ from traditional indemnity coverage...
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Innovative Microinsurance Protects Poor Farmers Against Climate Change

Wed, 09/16/2015
Topics: 
Data
Satellite data
Product design
Weather index
Product distribution
Country: 
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
For several years, insuring harvests against the climate hazards that regularly destroy farmers’ crops in developing countries has for several years been a major tool in the fight against poverty, mainly in Africa and Asia, where between 400 and 500 million farmers survive on very low incomes. At the Convergences World Forum in Paris on 9 September 2015, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and GIIF speak about the innovations in index insurance and the success of the Kilimo Salama project in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania. Expanded in 2014, the program develops and offers insurance for...
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Jan

Favorable conditions for achieving scale, building markets and institutionalize index insurance

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Rachel Sberro-Kessler
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DataData managementWeather indexArea yieldMicro-levelMacro-level
This post was originally produced during the GIIF Conference held in Paris at the OECD Headquarters. The 6 key lessons learnt that emerge from the panel are as follows: Insurance needs to be part of a value add package that generates higher income for the farmers Governments play a key role in creating markets for agricultural insurance. Experiences in Peru, India and Senegal point to government interventions such as premium support, risk financing, and linkage to credit. There is a need to design and offer the right insurance product. Area Yield Index Insurance may offer an adequate...
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Speaker Presentations – Global Index Insurance Conference

Content owner: 
Global Index Insurance Facility
Topics: 
General
Weather index
Presentation 1 - Setting the agenda –the industry perspective: Building disaster-resilient economies and sustainable markets. A call to the industry to develop innovative insurance solutions ( presentation by Jean -Laurent Granier,Member of the Management Committee, CEO Mediterranean and LAC, Chairman & CEO AXA Global P&C) Presentation 2 - The Drivers and Barriers of Innovation ( presentation by Ulrich Hess, Senior Advisor Sector Project Insurance GIZ ) Presentation 3 – Market Makers for Index Insurance – Role of Governments, Role of Regional Institutions in supporting Government...
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22
Sep

Should governments support the development of agricultural insurance markets?

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Daniel Clarke and Felix Lung
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GeneralPublic/Legal frameworksLegal/Regulatory frameworksPremium subsidiesWeather index
Previously published here on the World Bank Group's Private Sector Development Blog How governments can ensure that low-income farmers are financially protected against natural disasters, such as droughts, was at the heart of a panel discussion at the “ Global Index Insurance Conference ,” which concluded earlier this week in Paris. The panelists explored various options, such as the disaster reserve fund FONDEN in Mexico as well as three index-based insurance programs aiming to protect vulnerable farmers: the African Risk Capacity , the Kenya Livestock Insurance Program, and the Mexican...
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28
Aug

Bundling Index Insurance with other Financial and Non-financial Services

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GeneralProduct designWeather index
The Global Index Insurance Facility together with the ILO's Impact Insurance Facility, USAID and BASIS/I4-sponsored Global Action Network (GAN), organised a webinar to look into the question "How can index insurance be bundled with other financial and non financial services". This webinar featured speakers from global organizations who shared experiences and discussed which services and activities in the agriculture value chain are most aligned for bundling. It explored mechanisms and issues in bundling, and also looked into the possible impact of bundling on pricing & off-take of index...
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Zambia

Market launch: 
2016
Topics: 
General
Weather index
Country: 
Zambia
Region: 
Sub-Saharan Africa
Smallholder farmers in Zambia are vulnerable to weather-related shocks such as drought, flooding, and irregular rainfall. Insurance can be a good risk management tool for these farmers, but the traditional insurance market largely fails to meet their demand for affordable insurance. Index insurance provides an innovative and more efficient solution for them to protect their crops against losses and encourage investment. In March 2016, the Global Index Insurance Facility signed a capacity building grant with Mayfair Insurance, a private insurer registered in Zambia. The grant enabled them to...
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17
Aug

Accessing Product Quality in Sri Lanka: A Recap of GIIF’s Peer Exchange

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Josh Ling, (Senior Microinsurance Specialist, Mercy Corps)
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GeneralProduct designWeather index
Having many Sri Lankan friends in my home country of Australia, I have always wanted to visit Sri Lanka. The image of beautiful green tea plantations comes to mind, and perhaps rightfully so. This May, I had the opportunity to visit and understand more about their Index Insurance market through the Index Insurance Forum – a community of practitioners working towards market development and scalability in Index Insurance. The visit was part of a peer exchange with SANASA , an insurance company in Sri Lanka and a partner of the World Bank Group’s Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF). The...
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