The International Actuarial Association's (IAA) Microinsurance Working Group is hosting a two-part webinar series on "Techniques to help you better understand risk and opportunity".

The first webinar is taking pace today at 1pm CET and will cover how to use a toolkit to analyse risk and walk through a common inclusive insurance example. The second part will walk through more real-life examples such as credit life and health insurance products. That will take place on Thursday, 7 February at 1pm CET.

In 2018, SERINSA (Servicios Inclusivos S.A.), a social venture initiated in 2016 by the regional network of MFIs in Central America and the Caribbean, REDCAMIF, requested technical assistance (TA) from ADA and BRS. This TA sought to strengthen the provision of inclusive and responsible microinsurance in the region. One of the challenges tackled in this alliance was the identification of financial and social indicators relevant to SERINSA and based on the Key Performance Indicators for Microinsurance developed by MICROFACT, a joint initiative of ADA and BRS.

IFAD - the International Fund for Agricultural Development - is one of the Network’s longest-standing members. We talked to Francesco Rispoli, now IFAD’s Country Programme Manager for Rwanda and Tanzania (previously Senior Technical Specialist in Inclusive Rural Financial Services) about the future for agricultural Microinsurance and his time as a MiN Board member.

Emily Coleman, Insurance Specialist at IFAD and also a MiN member contributed to this interview.

MiN: How has the MiN evolved since IFAD joined ten years ago?