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The Ugandan fintech startup Emata has successfully secured $2.4 million in seed funding

Fri, 09/15/2023
Country: 
Uganda
The Ugandan fintech startup Emata has successfully secured $2.4 million in seed funding , earmarked for the expansion of its digital agricultural loan services across East Africa, with a primary focus on Uganda and potential growth into Tanzania. Emata specializes in providing automated loans to smallholder farmers, effectively addressing the significant agricultural financing gap within the region by offering loans at rates five times more affordable than informal lending alternatives. The company has developed a digital platform that streamlines the lending process and is deeply integrated...
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Towards a global resilient recovery: Reflections on 2022

Fri, 04/28/2023
In 2022, despite the ongoing struggles of the COVID-19 pandemic, the GIIF Program successfully delivered significant results and continued building a strong pipeline to strengthen its ties with clients, other WBG projects and the donor community. All activities, projects, events, trainings, studies focus on further developing the markets. Since the launch of GIIF, more than 13 million agriculture insurance policies have been issued cumulatively, with an estimated outreach of 65 million beneficiaries globally. In these difficult conditions, as the GIIF team we would like to emphasize that we...
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Protecting the world’s most vulnerable from catastrophic climatic disasters

Sat, 01/28/2023
The World Bank Group has announced a Global Shield Financing Facility to help developing countries access more financing for recovery from natural disasters and climate shocks. The Global Shield against Climate Risk or Global Shield, in short, is a collaborative partnership between G7 and V20 to fast-track access to pre-arranged finance which is deployed swiftly and reliably before or soon after climatic shocks and disasters strike. The German government through its G7 chairmanship spearheaded the launch of the Global Shield. Through the Global Shield, governments, communities, businesses,...
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IFC brought together leading insurers and regulators from across Africa to build farmer resilience

Wed, 01/04/2023
Financial inclusion is critical to development in Africa. Yet, many smallholder farmers and micro, small & medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs ) on the continent have limited access to financial products, including climate-resilient microinsurance and other insurance services. Past December 2022, IFC - International Finance Corporation convened representatives from Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to discuss building the capacity of companies and regulators to design agricultural insurance products and best practices for assessing the insurance value of smallholder...
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Congratulations to Green Delta Insurance Company for an Important Milestone: 500,000 smallholders insured in 2022!

Mon, 10/31/2022
Country: 
Bangladesh
In 2016, Green Delta Insurance Company Limited started its journey in crop insurance with only 15 farmers. Over the course of the last 7 years, Green Delta has devoted its efforts to spread crop insurance in different parts of Bangladesh, experiencing rapid growth in terms of new farmers onboarded. Green Delta is proud to announce that they have recently achieved a new milestone of 500,000 smallholders farmers across Bangladesh that are now under coverage of their crop insurance. The Green Delta family affirmed they are proud to be a companion of these farmers who are consistently...
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Ngano of Lazy Hare and the drought

Farmer Community Outreach: Hollard Mozambique

Thu, 03/17/2022
Country: 
Mozambique
As part of the latest International Conference on Inclusive Insurance (ICII) with around 1000 participants from over 120 countries discussing how to make insurance more inclusive, and during Day 3 when attendees where discussing the Challenges of Reaching the Client, the Director of Hollard Mozambique ( Israel Muchena ) brought up important lessons learned from successful education programs, mentioning the Ngano of Lazy Hare and the Drought story developed for awareness of insurance based on traditional Mozambican tale. In the introduction to risk through an ancient African oral story (Ngano...
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GIIF Program Highlights 2021

Mon, 12/06/2021
Despite the effects of COVID-19, the Program successfully delivered significant results and it continues building a robust pipeline to strengthen this business line to further develop the markets. Since the launch of GIIF, more than 10.5 million agriculture insurance policies have been issued, with an estimated outreach of 53 million beneficiaries globally. We recognize and appreciate all the hard work that our clients do, and we are grateful for the continuous support of our Donors. Please see below summary highlights under each category. Program launch: The establishment of a new Program “...
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InsuResilience Magazine

Fri, 10/29/2021
The InsuResilience Magazine dedicates this series to the latest developments in the field of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance, and showcase innovative and transformative solutions implemented by Partnership members around the world. This first issue, highlights a spotlight on “SMART” Premium and Capital Support - discussed in three highly interesting pieces, contributed by distinguished InsuResilience experts and political leaders: -An exclusive interview with H.E. former Minister Alfred Alfred Jr, Republic of the Marshall Islands and Parliamentary State Secretary Maria...
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Sifting grain

Farmer Community Outreach

Tue, 10/12/2021
Country: 
Zambia
Mayfair Central Testimonial Weather Index Insurance is a microinsurance product, launched by Mayfair insurance in Zambia in 2014, and that has been helping small-holder farmers mitigate risks posed by climate change. Derick Chanda (Chairperson – Kangomba Camp) expressed that most of the farmers in the district did not have insurance to rely on, and that whenever they faced problems or challenges with their crops, they were not sure about where to go and who to ask for help. Now that insurance companies like Mayfair have presence in their lands, they have been able to discuss the...
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China Weather Index Insurance Project and Its Digital Insurance Forum

Thu, 04/29/2021
China Weather Index Insurance Project The China Weather Index Insurance Project (China WII) , supported by the British Embassy Beijing, aims to create markets of digital insurance in rural areas by engaging public-private stakeholders. The project partners with policymakers, insurance companies, financial institutions, and insurance-tech players to introduce digital technology-empowered insurances, such as Weather Index Insurance (WII) across the country over the next three years. Despite the COVID disruption, efforts are being made in market landscape studies and insurance product...
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