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Activity Snapshot: Facilitating Dialogue on Index insurance between the Public and Private Sector

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Facilitating Dialogue on Index insurance between the Public and Private Sector
Author: 
Kaavya Krishna
Language: 
English
Topics: 
General
Data management
Public/Legal frameworks
Micro-level
In june 2016, over 60 participants gathered at the College of insurance in Nairobi to discuss best practices and share their knowledge and expertise on index insurance, particularly livestock insurance and agriculture insurance. The discussions were quite timely, as the Government of Kenya recently allocated US$6 million for crop and livestock insurance for smallholder producers for next year, as one of the ‘key government flagship projects to drive the transformative agenda’. This is a five-fold increase in budget from the previous years with strong allocations toward data systems and...
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19
Jan

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

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Rachel Sberro-Kessler
in
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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Data and Information Management - Manual 3

Topics: 
General
Data
Data management
Product design
Weather index
Data and information management refers to the development, collection, use, and preservation of data and the methods needed to acquire, control, protect, deliver, and enhance its value to achieve the goals of agricultural insurance programs. Issues related to the collection, development, updating, and quality of data are often overlooked when developing agricultural insurance programs. However, such programs will likely fail without a concise, well-developed plan for data and information management. Data is needed by those who develop, operate, and manage agricultural insurance programs. In...
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Interview with Benjamin Collier, Research Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
Data management
Earthquake data
Satellite data
Product design
Product distribution
Collier argues that index insurance is best suited to cover disasters which occur every 20 years or greater because severe risks lower premium costs. Below are excerpts form the interview. Q: You have done substantial research, notably with Jerry Skees on index insurance. Why do you think that index insurance needs to be designed as “disaster insurance” rather than “crop insurance”? A: We need a new frame of reference for household markets. Up to now, the consensus focus has been crop yields. Yet the effects of bad weather on household well-being are often multifaceted and poorly captured by...
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IFC and Partners to Launch Typhoon Insurance for Filipino Farmers

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
Data management
Earthquake data
Legal/Regulatory frameworks
Product design
Catastrophe weather derivative
Country: 
Philippines
IFC will work with the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Insurance Agency and the Pioneer Insurance and Surety Corporation to design new insurance products that aim to protect Filipino farmers against typhoon-related losses, which are estimated to have exceeded $2.5 billion since 2009. According to the 2012 World Disaster Report, the Philippines ranks as the third most disaster-prone country in the world, with an average of 20 typhoons per year. The project will enable CARD Insurance and Pioneer Insurance to offer indemnity insurance to thousands of farmers and rural entrepreneurs...
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R4 Rural Resilience Initiative's Sophia Belay at Climate Risk Forum 2014

Topics: 
Data management
Data providers
Premium subsidies
Product design
Weather index
Area yield
Sophia Belay, Manager – R4 Rural Resilience Initiative, talks about increasing awareness of index insurance among farmers
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Using Satellite Data for Index Insurance

Content owner: 
GIIF - World Bank Group
Author: 
Christina Files and International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Topics: 
Data
Data management
Satellite data
Product design
Weather index
Satellite Technology and its continued advancement is critical to the relevance and accuracy of index insurance products as a counter against weather-related risks. The World Bank Group’s Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) in partnership with its regional partners has been working with researchers and scientists to refine satellite technology for index insurance product design.
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12
Dec

Food and Nutrition Security, Agriculture and Climate Change

Topics: 
Data
Data management
Weather index
Area yield
Catastrophe weather derivative
Year: 
2014
On the sidelines of UNFCCC COP20 the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and CARE will host a half day seminar to raise awareness and showcase actions on approaches to address the food and nutrition security and climate change challenges.
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Shadreck Mapfumo on the relevance of index insurance in Africa

Topics: 
Data management
Product design
Weather index
Area yield
Hybrid
GIIF's Senior Technical Specialist shares key lessons from projects in Africa
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Automated Weather Stations Drive Groundbreaking Low-cost Micro-insurance Plan for Rwanda’s Farmers

Topics: 
Data management
Data providers
Legal/Regulatory frameworks
Weather index
Area yield
Hybrid
Product distribution
Meso-level
Country: 
Rwanda
As Rwandan farmers face increasingly erratic rainfall, an innovative program launched today will use automated weather stations to offer 20,000 farmers in the Southern and Western provinces of Rwanda low-cost insurance to protect their loans for high-yielding seeds, fertilizers, and other farm inputs.
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