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New Climate Data in Zambia Unlocks Insurance Opportunities

Wed, 11/23/2016
Topics: 
Data
Data providers
Country: 
Zambia
In mid September, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) helped launch an innovative new data platform in Lusaka, Zambia that combines satellite rainfall estimates with the country’s existing network of rain gauges. The platform, developed with the Zambia Meteorological Department and through funding from NASA, is the latest to come out of IRI’s Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) initiative which aims to address the persistent problem of data scarcity and lack of access to climate information products in many African countries. The World Bank Group’s...
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ILO and World Bank Group to Enhance Access to Index Insurance in Rural Areas in Africa and Asia

Wed, 01/14/2015
Topics: 
General
Data
Data providers
Legal/Regulatory frameworks
Product design
Weather index
Geneva, Switzerland July 24, 2014 – The International Labour Office (ILO) and the World Bank Group (WBG) have signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to provide access to improved insurance products to hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers, small businesses and individuals in Asia and Africa. The three year partnership is the first-of-its-kind within the rapidly evolving index insurance industry. The Facility and GIIF combine their strengths to improve the delivery of index insurance to farmers and their families as well as businesses, through extraction, dissemination and...
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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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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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Earth Observation Responses to Geo-information Market Drivers

Content owner: 
Aon: Risk, Reinsurance, Human Resources
Topics: 
Data
Satellite data
Data providers
This interim summary report has been produced by Aon Limited and ESYS plc under contract ESRIN/Contract No. 17814/03/I-LG: Earth Observation Responses to Geo-information Market Drivers – Insurance Segment. It summarises three deliverables on the use of geo-information in the insurance industry.
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Legal and Regulatory Work for 14 countries in Francophone Africa - CIMA (Regional Insurance Industry Body)

Start date: 
2014
Topics: 
Data providers
Legal/Regulatory frameworks
Area yield
Livestock
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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