MiN, Members & Partners: News, Blogs & Resources

MiN, Members & Partners: News, Blogs & Resources

2024

April

• Microinsurance Network | Landscape 2024: Call for in-country consultants in South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam
• ADA: Towards inclusive, sustainable and innovative finance: an interview with Laura Foschi, ADA
• APA Insurance Limited: Celebrating Earth Day – Promoting Sand Dams for Climate Resilience
• Blue Marble Launches Climate Adaptation Project with support from USAID
• CARD Pioneer earns microinsurance benchmark
• Cebuana Lhuillier Bank brings community empowerment and financial excellence to Davao
• Cenfri: Establishing data sharing protocol within government agencies
• IBISA Introduces Heat Stress Solution For The Dairy Sector
• IFAD: 4 ways IFAD is using AI to transform rural development
• ILO: Spanish-offered online course "Seguros para el desarrollo" ("Insurance for Development") | 27 May – 28 June 2024 | Enroll by 29 April 2024 and benefit from a scholarship provided by the MiN
• Insurance Development Forum Announces Plans to Facilitate Investments in Resilient Infrastructure in Developing/Emerging Markets
• Navigating the Gig Economy: The Essencial Role of MicroNsure
• The Social Impact Journal Podcast by Rural Inclusion | Episode 32 - The Rise of Mobile Money with Rishi Raithatha

March

• Microinsurance Network | Landscape 2024: Call for in-country consultants
• A2ii launch FeMa Meter – a tool for promoting gender equality within the insurance sector
• ACRE Africa: Yes, agriculture insurance works! | Watch the video
• African Risk Capacity Group | Seeds of Resilience: Zambia's Journey from Drought to Recovery | Watch the video
• APA Insurance Secures Major Wins at the Association of Kenya Insurers Awards
• CGAP: Leveraging Transactional Data for Micro and Small Enterprise Lending
• EFU Life And Telenor Pakistan Sign The Strategic Alliance Agreement
• E-MFP, InFiNe.lu & Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Luxembourg: European Microfinance Award 2024. Advancing financial inclusion for refugees & forcibly displaced people | Call for applications (apply by 15 April 2024)
• Feed the Future MRR Innovation Lab: Hands-on Academic Research Partnerships
• The Social Impact Journal Podcast by Rural Inclusion | Episode 34 - The Rural Inclusion Journey with Joseph Lukwago
• IFAD: Alvaro Lario: “Without family farming, we would not have eaten today.” An interview with the President of IFAD
• Inside IBISA: Dorien Asampana Shares Her Journey as Head of Operations and the Impact of Climate Insurance in Agriculture
• Insurance Development Forum: Enhancing Risk Modelling and Disaster Finance through Data Empowerment
• LeapFrog recognised as Impact Firm of the Year (Financial Inclusion) in New Private Markets Impact Awards
• MicroNsure: Insurtech Innovations Revolutionising Micro-insurance
• Swiss Re publishes Sustainability Report 2023
• VisionFund: Gender Equality enables Impact

February

• ABOCOSER celebrates their 10-year anniversary | Watch the event recap
• Ada’s Smallholder Safety Net Upscaling Programme (SSNUP): Empowering women in agri-food systems with impact investing | Read the workshop results
• AXA: Results in 2023 and a comprehensive review of the Driving Progress 2023 Strategic Plan
• Britam and County government of Tana River sign a deal to increase the number of households covered under the Index-Based Flood Insurance policy in the county
• Cenfri and Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI) in partnership with the Africa Fintech Network (AFN) are developing Africa’s first regional Fintech Platform | Learn more about the project & contribute to a better understanding of the needs of the African fintech ecosystem by completing a survey 
• CGAP: How Can Insurance Help Build a Green, Resilient & Inclusive Future?
• CNSeg: Insuring the Climate Transition in Brazil | Download the report
• Democrance: Ebook “The Future of Insurance Distribution” 
• Global Shield against Climate Risks: Call for Expression of Interest to apply for Global Shield support
• IFAD Member States approve ambitious $2 bn plan to reduce hunger and poverty for 100 million rural people
• InFiNe: A report on Knowledge Sharing Event with ICFA “Emerging Impact Fund Managers”
• MIC Global and Weather Risk Management Global partner to deliver parametric flood resilience cover to merchants and gig workers in India
• The Social Impact Journal Podcast by Rural Inclusion | Episode 31 - The Feed The Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience with Sophie Javers
• UNCDF Policy Accelerator Toolkit: Apply these to the three phases of policymaking — policy gap analysis, policy design and policy implementation — while working toward inclusive Digital Financial Services
• VisionFund | State of the Practice: Savings Group Linkages 2024 Report
• World Bank’s Feasibility Study: Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (DRFI) Solutions for Family Farmers in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

January

• MiN in the Press | Inclusive Insurance: Much Has Progressed, Much More to Be Done
• AB Entheos & Britam featured in the article “How insurtechs are ripping up the insurance playbook”
• AB Entheos feature “Compensation and insurance” on IUCN SSC guidelines on human-wildlife confl­ict and coexistence | Download the full publication and access AB Entheos feature in Chapter 31
• Aon Announces A Crop Insurance Collaboration With The African Development Bank And Amini
• APA Insurance: Ashok Shah interview with KTN News on the evolving landscape of Kenya's insurance sector in 2024 | Watch part 1 | Watch part 2 
• Cebuana Lhuillier Insurance Brokers’ Jean Henri Lhuillier: The man whose mission is financial inclusion
• Dreamlopments: A Thai business owner was willing to pay monthly contributions to apply M-FUND for his employees and their families
• EFU Life covers more than 5 million lives in 2023 through their digital, micro, mass market & inclusive insurance initiatives
• Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation invests in a new country, Tanzania
• ILO's Impact Insurance Facility: Good things come in threes — The third edition of the Impact Insurance Academy
• Implementation Update: Insurance Development Forum Disaster Risk Reduction Task Force
• International Actuarial Association: COP 28 - The Key Takeaways and Insights for the Global Actuarial Profession
• Joint IFAD and IDB project in Brazil will improve the lives of 210,000 rural people in the semiarid Piauí State
• MicroNsure: Nurturing Talent: Employee Benefits for MSMEs
• Rural Inclusion partners with UNCDF and Solutions Studio in the Pacific Islands
• The Social Impact Journal podcast with Jack Farren (Rural Inclusion): The role of financial inclusion and inclusive insurance in climate resilience

2023

December

• MiN Briefing paper: Smart Layering to Enable Inclusive Climate Risk Management (produced by the MiN Best Practice Group focused on “Building the resilience of smallholder farmers”) | Download here
• A2ii: Index Insurance Training for all Stakeholders | Access the training online
• Agence Française de Développement (AFD): Développement : Les 8 temps forts de l'année 2023
• Allianz: Dow Jones Sustainability Index recognises Allianz as a Sustainable Insurer and underpins transition efforts – “It’s an incentive to continue our work!”
• AXA publication “It's a Woman's World | Download here
• Britam recognised as the 2nd Runner Up in the Insurance Category at this year's Financial Reporting (FiRe) Awards
• CGAP: How Can Regulators Enable Last-Mile Agent Networks?
• Democrance awarded as one of the top 100 emerging companies driving the competitiveness of the UAE's future economy sectors
• Etherisc and VerityCare announce Strategic Partnership to revolutionise Healthcare Insurance
• LeapFrog, Temasek, EIB join forces to deliver $500m pledge for green solutions
• MIC Global: Loss of Income Protection for Micro Entrepreneurs: From Risk to Resilience with Micro Insurance
• Syngenta Foundation: Taking a broad approach to protecting farm livelihoods
• UNDP: A Resilient Future for All: Advancing Disability Inclusion in Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience and Leaving No One Behind

November

• A2ii and UNCDF launch index insurance trainings for supervisors and other stakeholders
• Ada, Jokkolabs & U-IMCEC Senegal supporting young entrepreneurs through flexible financing and strengthening their professional skills | Watch the testimony of Ndeye Fatou Senghor, young entrepreneur in Senegal
• AM Best: What the AI revolution means for insurance prospects, policyholders and regulators
• APA Insurance: Ashok Shah, CEO/MD at APA Insurance wins the the CXO Influencer of the Year Award
• Asociación Salvadoreña de Empresas de Seguros (ASES) podcast: “What is the culture of prevention and what is its importance?” (available in Spanish only) | El podcast de la Asociación Salvadoreña de Seguros (ASES): “Qué es la cultura de prevención y cuál es su importancia?” (escucha en español)
• AXA & Swiss Re Swiss Re launch a collaboration to help build resilience to systemic risks
• Blue Marble: Building climate resilience in frontline communities
• Bradesco Seguros videocast: The importance of resilience (watch in Portuguese) | Videocast Bradesco Seguros: A importância da resiliência (ouça em Português)
• Britam Clients to Access Outpatient Services in Pharmacy Outlets
• CGAP Annual Report 2023
• Dreamlopment’s M-FUND Storytelling: “My son survived because of M-FUND”
• Gallagher Perú’s Country Head Pietro Solari: “On a consolidated basis, we have been able to grow close to 40% this year” (read in Spanish) | Pietro Solari, Country Head de Gallagher Perú: “A manera consolidada, hemos podido crecer cerca de 40% este año” (leer en español
• Kashf Foundation & InfraZamin Pakistan successfully launch South Asia’s & Pakistan’s First-ever, AAA Rated, Gender Bond
• Syngenta Foundation: Policy can improve what’s on your plate
• Waadaa.Insure join hands with Swisscontact's Sarathi Project to Improve RMG Workers Healthcare
• World Food Programme: Strengthening Financial Protection to address Climate Impacts

October

• AFD: Working towards food security in West Africa: 5 AFD Group projects  
• Cenfri: Remittances, a vital contributor to the SDGs  
• CGAP: Success in Open Finance Requires Trust – Lessons from Brazil 
• CGAP:What Does Financial Inclusion Mean for Young Women’s Well-being? 
• Generali outlines protection gap plan with UNDP 
• IFAD: Investing in rural private sector in Nigeria with Babban Gona 
• ILO, WHO, P4H and SPARKS Network Workshop:Universal social protection needed for prevention, preparedness and response to the next pandemic 
• Insurance Development Forum Implementation Update: Pioneering an Inclusive Insurance Roadmap in Senegal 
• InsurTech Business Series: Unlocking the Future of Health Insurance (feat. Ikpeme Neto, WellaHealth)| Podcast 
• MIC Global Partners: Protecting Gig Workers from Income Loss 
• Microinsurance Master: Rome Wasn't Built in a Day: The Inconvenient Truth About Microinsurance 
• Women’s World Banking: Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion Advocacy Hub | Closing the Access to Skills Gap: Resource Roundup 
• World Bank’s IFC Backs Indian Insurtech Startup Onsurity in $24 Million Funding 

September

• MiN: Inclusive insurance in Argentina | Download or purchase our latest country report (free for members) | Descargar o comprar la versión española
• MiN: Inclusive insurance in Ghana | Download or purchase our latest country report (free for members)
• MiN: Inclusive Insurance: Growth and Innovation Update
• IDF, UNDP Insurance and Risk Financing Facility, the World Bank Group’s Global Index Insurance Facility & the MiN’s partnership with the Kenyan insurance sector and regulator: Implementation Update
• Britam Introduces Innovative Child-only Medical Cover
• CGAP: Engaging Financial Services Providers in the Context of G2P Choice
• EFU Life & Kashf Foundation Unite For Women Empowerment And Financial Resilience: Introducing “Khushal Mustakbil Plan”
• Etherisc: Viable climate risk insurance for the vulnerable
• Guardian Life: Great Place to Work® Institute, India Honors Guardian India with Two Distinctions
• IBISA Podcast: EP4 The burden of risk in agri sustainability
• France, Norway and Spain make landmark financial commitments to IFAD 
• MIC Global Partners with Turaco to Strengthen Affordable Insurance in Ghana
• MicroNsure: How Parametric Insurance Provides rapid-aid in Crisis
• Munich Re Foundation & GRP: Meet the shortlisted candidates of the RAIN Challenge for Non-profits
• Rio Uruguay Seguros: El Programa Seguros por la Equidad llegó a Salta de la mano de RUS y Estacubierto.com
• Syngenta Foundation: Bharat Kisan Manch Accelerates Farmers & Rural Entrepreneurs Digitisation, Launched in Collaboration with Mastercard and AEGF
• UNDP launches innovative e-Learning Programme on Sustainable Finance
• Women’s World Banking: An Open Letter: Digital Financial Capability is Critical to Unlocking the Power of Women’s Financial Inclusion, But We Must All Do Our Part

August

• MiN, ILO's Impact Insurance Facility & Generation Foundation: New project on improving the viability and value of inclusive insurance
• MiN in the press: IDF, MiN host 1st country workshop to advance inclusive insurance in the Philippines
• A2ii: 4th Inclusive Insurance Innovation Lab (iii-lab) | Apply by 17 September 2023
• Ada’s SSNUP: Stakeholder surveys follow up key projects
• Britam and Airtel Money Partner to Offer Affordable Insurance Solution for the Micro-Segment
• CGAP: Working paper “Climate Risk and Financial Inclusion: A Regulatory Perspective”
• Green Delta Insurance scores a hattrick in the Commonwealth Business Excellence Awards 2023
• IFAD & GEF report: Investments in poor small-scale farmers generate significant benefits for climate and environment
• Kashf Foundation: Roshaneh Zafar receives Pakistan Development Leader award for her work in social equality and women's empowerment
• MIC Global: How to Build a Micro Insurance Company: The Four Pillars for Success
• MicroNsure: House holder insurance for kutcha houses
• SCBF Annual Report 2022
• The World Bank’s report “Digital-in-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone”
• Women’s World Banking’s Making Finance Work for Women Podcast: The Role of Mobile Network Operators in Digital Financial Inclusion

July

• MiN’s Best Practice Group for Climate Change and Food Security (currently Building the resilience of smallholder farmers BPG) | Briefing paper: Climate change and index insurance. How can the insurance industry respond to the challenge?
• Nicolas Morales’ (MiN) interview with más Seguros on Microinsurance Network’s objectives, its role in Latin America & prospects of the microinsurance market in the LATAM region
• A2ii-IAIS-UNCDF Public Dialogue Report - Index Insurance: Unlocking Opportunities and Addressing Challenges
• A2ii Supervisory Special: Supervisory approaches to data for bridging the gender protection gap | Watch the recording (insurance supervisors only)
• AB Consultants is rebranding to AB Entheos Ltd. 
• Ada: Annual report 2022
• Ada: SSNUP annual report 2022
• ACLI wins a Gold Award at the ASAE Power of Associations Awards
• African Risk Capacity: Fitch Ratings upgrades ARC’s Insurer Financial Strength to 'A-'
• Agence Française de Développement: Initiative Kiwa, aimed at strengthening the resilience of ecosystems, economies and communities in the Pacific states and territories | Download the publication (FR) 
• Blue Marble launch their new product “Buen Clima” in Colombia, protecting 5,900 farmers
• e-MFP: Financial Inclusion Compass 2023 | Complete the survey by 7 August 2023
• e-MFP: Market-Based Approaches and Fiscal Measures Can Best Address Food Security & Nutrition
• GIZ: Climate Resilience – What can we learn from Pastoral Systems in Africa’s Drylands?
• ILO Impact Insurance Facility’s blog: My mother and integrated risk management: transforming lives requires an all-round approach
• Inmedical, MIC Global, Democrance, MicroNsure, Radiant, Guardian Life Insurance Limited, Inclusivity Solutions, Milvik BIMA and Blue Marble among the top 40 Inclusive Insurance Companies Utilising Insurtech Innovations

June

• MiN: Landscape of Microinsurance 2022 is now also available in Arabic! 
• A2ii: Closing the protection gap – pandemic risks - Session Report from the ASSAL-IAIS Regional Training Seminar 
• Britam, KCB and NBK Bank Target SMEs in Health Insurance Distribution Deal
• CGAP: On Gig Platforms, Women Workers Face Triple Barriers to Inclusion 
• CNseg presents the ongoing Insurance Market Development Plan at Universidade Nova, in Lisbon (em português)
• GIZ: Health and Gender: how we all benefit from digital innovations 
• Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation awarded the Best International Inclusive Finance Organisation 2023
• Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation: Rapport Integré 2022 (English version available soon)
• ILO: Spanish-offered online course "Seguros para el desarrollo" ("Insurance for Development") | 17 July – 18 August 2023 | Enroll by 4 July 2023 
• Insurance Development Forum: The Road to COP28: Actions Speak Louder than Words
• Rural Inclusion CIC: Using technology to empower communities in Africa and beyond through financial inclusion 
• WFP: New cash policy to prioritize digital humanitarian cash transfers with an emphasis on women 

May

• MiN: Landscape of Microinsurance 2022
• MiN: Inclusive insurance in Guatemala | download or purchase our latest country report (free for members)
• MiN’s Katharine Pulvermacher on the power of technology to unlock global inclusivity
• AXA: The role of insurers in the drive for health equity
• Britam partners with Swiss Re & Oxfam to launch index-based flood insurance solution
• Cenfri: Customer due diligence and identity regulatory frameworks: innovation opportunities for enhanced remittance access
• CGAP: Strengthening Rural Women’s Climate Resilience: Opportunities for Financial and Agricultural Service Providers
• EFU Life Assurance Ltd. emerge as runner-ups at the 2023 SummerHack – Global Financial Services Ideathon
• ILO issues wage protection guidance for migrant workers
• ILO: Spanish-offered online course "Seguros para el desarrollo" ("Insurance for Development") | 17 July – 18 August 2023 | Enroll by 20 June 2023 and benefit from one of the two scholarships provided by the MiN
• Kashf Foundation’s Roshaneh Zafar: Combating Restrictive Gender Norms in Pakistan
• LeapFrog: Expert view - Generating impact with ‘healthtech’
• UNDP: Country Diagnostic on Inclusive Insurance and Risk Finance for Thailand
• UNDP: The Inclusive Insurance Navigator
• World Bank: Brazil Country Climate and Development Report

April

• MiN: Landscape of Microinsurance 2022
• MiN: Inclusive insurance in Egypt | download or purchase our latest country report (free for members)
• MiN: Inclusive insurance in the Philippines | download or purchase our latest country report (free for members)
• ADA: Deteriorating liquidity and funding conditions for microfinance institutions in Myanmar
• CGAP: Five Opportunities for Funding Transparency in Financial Inclusion
• e-MFP: 41 organisations from 25 countries apply to round 1 of european microfinance award 2023 on ‘inclusive finance for food security & nutrition’
• ILO Social Finance Brief: Seguros Bolivar (Versión en español)
• ILO: Spanish-offered online course "Seguros para el desarrollo" ("Insurance for Development") | 17 July – 18 August 2023 | Enrollment deadline: 20 June 2023
• Kashf Foundation’s Roshaneh Zafar: When women earn an income, they can change the world
• Microinsurance Master 2023 accelerator is accepting applications (the accelerator kicks off from 3 July 2023)
• Rural Inclusion CIC: Documentary of the pilot project of Ostrii with Opportunity International
• InsuResilience Global Partnership: Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions’ case studies of 2023
• UNDP Insurance and Risk Finance Facility: Insurance Innovation Challenge – call for applications open! | Deadline to apply: 28 April 2023
• Weather Risk Management Services introduces SecuRisk to bridge the $160 billion global underinsurance gap
• World Food Programme: 2022 Climate Risk Insurance Annual Report

March

• MiN: Michele Grosso joins our Board of Directors 
• A2ii Scholarships for the Microinsurance Master accelerator programme for insurance supervisors
• African Risk Capacity Limited and Milliman launch postgraduate scholarship programme for African students studying climate change risk
• e-MFP: Call for applications now open for 2023 European Microfinance Awards on “Inclusive Finance for Food Security and Nutrition” | Deadline to apply: 12 April 2023
• Etherisc protects another 7,000 Kenyan farmers as part of the Lemonade Crypto Climate Coalition
• IBISA: Gini index of precipitation – new solution for drought detection?
• IDF – 2022 In Review: A Year of Influence and Implementation
• ILO and Britam: Product design approaches for inclusive property insurance
• ILO Social Finance Brief: Dvara KGFS
• ILO Social Finance Brief: Suramericana Argentina
• InsuResilience Solutions Fund Annual Report 2022
• LeapFrog companies reach 200m women, as firm commits to IFC gender equality programme
• MicroInsurance Centre at Milliman: Making Climate Risk Microinsurance Work – an analysis of five cases | Download research report
• Microinsurance Master: Rome Wasn't Built in a Day: The Inconvenient Truth About Microinsurance
• SCBF: Savings Linked Insurance for resilience in Ghana and Malawi
• UNCDF partners with Howden to build climate resilience for vulnerable communities in Fiji
• UNDP Insurance and Risk Finance Facility: Insurance Innovation Challenge – call for applications open! | Deadline to apply: 28 April 2023

February

• MiN: Inclusive insurance in Peru | download or purchase our latest country report (free for members) | Descargar o comprar la versión española
• A2ii & Women’s World Banking: Scholarship for the Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators | Apply by 28 February 2023
• A2ii: Innovating for financial inclusion - the role of insurance supervisors
• A2ii: Envisioning Responsible Finance in the Context of Climate Change – the Role of Insurance Supervision
• Ada: Training in agricultural and rural finance (FAR) (Introductory e-learning session from 27 March to 21 April 2023 | Face-to-face session from 9 to 14 October 2023 in Lomé, Togo)
• ADA: Overview of Smallholder Safety Net Upscaling Programme (SSNUP)  2022
• APA Insurance: CEO Ashok Shah on Once Upon a Leader in Africa Podcast
• BRS: Viva el cooperativismo – a powerful and efficient way of helping one another!
• Etherisc: next exciting chapter: Acre Africa crop insurance is now on Celo blockchain
• LeapFrog continues impact industry leadership with best-in-class verification
• MiCRO & MIC at Milliman: Making climate risk microinsurance work  
• Rural Inclusion: The Social Impact Journal – Podcast episode: Using Emerging Techologies for Good
• UNCDF: Early Positive Impact of Parametric Insurance Shows the Way Forward
• WFP: Social protection and Microinsurance: Series of Case Studies on Bangladesh, Fiji, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Zambia
• WFP: 2023 - Climate Risk Insurance: A key tool for building resilience in Haiti

January

• Microinsurance Network calls for action in Luxembourg and Global North 
• MiN: Watch Katharine Pulvermacher’s interview with Africa Takaful Magazine  
• MiN: Inclusive insurance in India | download or purchase our latest country report (free for members) 
• A2ii & Women’s World Banking: Scholarship for the Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators | Apply by 31 January 2023 
• APA Insurance: CEO Ashok Shah profiled 
• AXA: Making Healthcare Accessible and Sustainable 
• Britam: How insurers can mitigate risks related to climate change impact 
• CGAP: Can Disruptive Innovation Favor Financial Inclusion in Côte d’Ivoire? 
• Etherisc Developing the World’s First On-chain Carbon Offsets Insurance Product in Collaboration with Chainlink, Floodlight and Coorest 
• IAIS: 2023-2024 Roadmap 
• ILO: Insurance for Development — Product development: inclusive health insurance 
• Inclusivity Solutions scaling with AWS startups 
• MIC at Milliman: Making climate risk microinsurance work 
• MicroNsure wins National Startup Award 2022 under Fintech (Insurance) category 
• Pioneer & IFC: Typhoon Insurance Shelters Filipino Farmers 
• SCBF: Savings-linked insurance for resilience in Ghana and Malawi 
• UNCDF – Masitabua: Transparency, Literacy Key to Success of Index Insurance in the Pacific