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Introduction to Index Insurance: A New eLearning Opportunity

As part of its commitment to enhance financial literacy in agriculture insurance and index-based insurance, the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) is proud to present a series of eLearning modules. These modules are designed to encourage self-paced learning, offering comprehensive insights into essential topics within the field. The " Introduction to Index Insurance" course provides a robust overview of agriculture and index insurance, covering fundamental concepts as well as advanced topics such as data utilization in product design, pricing strategies, and livestock index insurance. This
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Green Delta Settles Claims of 1,000 Farmers in Bangladesh

Green Delta Settles Claims of 1,000 Farmers in Bangladesh

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Country:
Bangladesh
Green Delta Insurance, a GIIF's partner, recently settled a claim of 1,000 farmers in Chitalmari, Begarhaat, Bangladesh. The 1,000 tomato farmers were insured by Green Delta's Weather Index-based Agri Insurance, the first of its kinds in the country. Bangladesh's State Minister for Finance, Chairman of Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority Bangladesh, and CEO of Green Delta Insurance Company, Farzana Chowdhury, attended the event.
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Index Insurance Helps Farmers in Bangladesh Build Resilience Against Climate Risks

Content owner:
Global Index Insurance Facility
Topics:
Weather index
Supported by the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) works with Green Delta Insurance to design and retail weather index insurance products that protect smallholder farmers and agribusinesses from climate risks. Access to finance provides a means for the farmers to sustain income and food security.
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Unlocking Smallholder Credit: Does Credit-Linked Agricultural Insurance Work?

Unlocking Smallholder Credit: Does Credit-Linked Agricultural Insurance Work?

Content owner:
Global Index Insurance Facility | Impact Insurance Facility
Author:
Peter Hazell, Richard Meyer, and Panos Varangis
Topics:
Product design
GIIF and ILO's Impact Insurance Facility jointly published a paper entitled "Unlocking Smallholder Credit: Does Credit-Linked Agricultural Insurance Work?" Authored by Independent Researchers Richard Meyer and Peter Hazell and World Bank Group's Panos Varangis, this paper reviews possibilities for, and experience with, credit-linked crop insurance, including different types of insurance and credit arrangements, ranging from insurance sold to individual farmers to meso insurance sold to financial service providers (FSPs) to cover losses suffered by farmer borrowers.
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Draft Issues Paper on Index-based Insurances Consultation 01 December 2017

Draft Issues Paper on Index-based Insurances Consultation 01 December 2017

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The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has released the draft Issues Paper on Index-based Insurances for a public consultation. Index-based insurance is increasingly looked at as a means to manage weather and catastrophic events, support food security and enhance access to insurance. The proposed Issues Paper provides background on this product, describes practices and actual examples and identifies related regulatory and supervisory issues and challenges. The draft paper and consultation tool are at this link. The consultation will end on 29 January 2018.
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Day 2 Presentations

Day 2 Presentations

Please click the session titles or subtitles for the presentation. Session 4 Data and Index Insurance: Focus on Satellite and Ground data Observations and Area Yield Index Masresha Taye, The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Mariane Diop-Kane, Director, ANACIM (L'Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie) Session 5 Discussion on Innovation Thomas Mahl, Managing Director, Sustainable Finance Risk Consulting Enock Sing’oei, Kifiya Financial Technology, Ethiopia Darcey Tindall, Senior Special Projects Associate, MyAgro Vijayasekar Kalavakonda, Senior Financial
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Day 1 Presentations

Day 1 Presentations

Please click the session titles or subtitles for the presentation from December 4, 2017. Introduction Global Index Insurance Facility: Accomplishments and Future Options – by Fatou Assah, GIIF Program Manager, World Bank Group Session 1 The Role of PPP in Driving the Growth of Index Insurance: Global Examples Panel: Key Challenges, Best Practices and Lessons L earnt by Index Insurance Practitioners: India – by Vijayasekar Kalavakonda, Sn Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group Latin America – by Panos Varangis, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank Group Senegal – by The National
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Throwing the dice on climate risk insurance

Throwing the dice on climate risk insurance

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On the sidelines of the U.N. climate talks in Bonn this week, officials experimented with a game aimed at giving them a real-life flavor of the pressures to find the right response to worsening climate-related disasters, Thomson Reuters Foundation News reports. The game was invented by Pablo Suarez, a World Bank consultant in the Disaster Risk Financing & Insurance Program. Global Index Insurance Facility's Manager Fatou Assah was at the event. " The game 'gives you a sense of what’s at stake'," Ms. Assah said. “You can lose it all. If you’re the minister of finance you realize the money has
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Hotel Booking Instruction

Hotel Booking Instruction

Our previous communications indicated that participants registered for the Global Index Insurance Conference are eligible for a preferred rate when booking accommodations with some of the listed hotels. If you would like to take advantage of these special rates, please follow the instruction here.
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Press Release: New online resource provides comprehensive information on climate risk insurance

Press Release: New online resource provides comprehensive information on climate risk insurance

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Geneva/Bonn, 13 October 2017: On the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction , the first-ever online database on climate risk insurance is being launched by the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, commissioned by the German Government. The Climate Insurance database shares the experiences of numerous international organizations in the field of risk transfer and insurance solutions in the context of climate risk management and disseminates information on good
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