Features
A tale of two halves: the growing importance of CSR in insurance – and the impact of insurance on CSR
An emphasis on the social aspect of the ESG criteria echoes and builds on the goals of many longer-standing CSR initiatives, from ensuring diversity and inclusion in the workplace to funding youth and women’s empowerment programmes. Understanding the scale and wider impact of these initiatives needs to be better unpacked, however.
Innovation Corner: Demystifying blockchain in insurance
The blockchain discussion has been around for years in the insurance space, but what once may have been seen by many as utopian and unrealistic, is now bearing fruit with tangible application and examples – serving as much-needed cover for smallholder farmers.
Country Focus: Indonesia
In recent years, Indonesia has made significant progress towards expanding financial inclusion, and a huge potential microinsurance market opportunity looms. This month’s country focus puts forth some of the key challenges and opportunities for the world’s fourth most populous country. Our full country briefing note is also hot off the press to download – free of charge for members, but also now available to non-members for purchase.
MiN & Members: Events
- A2ii & IAA: Actuarial training for insurance supervisors in Latin America (in Spanish) – 8-31 March 2022 | Apply by 31 January
- Actuaires du Monde: Inaugural Congress – hybrid format | Skopje, North Macedonia & virtual from 31 March to 1 April 2022 | Register now
- European Research Conference on Microfinance | 20-22 June 2022 | Call for abstracts now open – deadline: 15 February 2022
- Milliman & IDF: Implementing the IDF’s 3 COP26 initiatives | Watch webinar
MiN & Members: News, Blogs, Jobs & Resources
- MiN: Indonesia Country Briefing Note | Download report
- APA Insurance partners with PULA in mass payout to coastal farmers in Kenya
- Britam partners with Telkom Kenya to launch mobile-based insurance cover for small-scale traders
- Cenfri: Managing the complexities of insurance partnerships | Download report
- GIZ: Innovations and emerging trends in agricultural insurance for smallholder farmers – an update | Download study
- GIZ: Restoring Zambia’s rivers | Watch video
- Green Delta wins ICMAB Best Corporate Award in insurance category
- IFAD: Restoring ecosystem services in the Peruvian Andes
- InsuResilience Global Partnership featured on The Sustainability Journey podcast
- LeapFrog featured as case study in Impact Taskforce report on Mobilising institutional capital towards the SDGs – download report
- MIC Global: Creating a market for insurance in emerging markets
- MiCRO: 2021 – a year in review
- Milliman: Making climate risk microinsurance work | Download case studies
- UNDP’s Insurance and Risk Finance Facility is hiring | Deadline to apply: 30 January 2022
GIZ, Allianz & BIMA project: Download all project components below
- Developing risk management approaches for health risk | Download overall factsheet
- Integrated health management system | Download project component materials
- Mobile-delivered insurance and health services – mHealth | Download project component materials
- Mobile-delivered insurance and health services – Direct-to-customer (DTC) | Download project component materials
- Mobile-delivered insurance – the new customer journey | Watch video
- Mobile insurance regulation | Download project component materials
- Unlocking the potential of responsible mobile insurance – emerging practices for insurance supervisors and the industry | Download white paper
Elsewhere in the sector...
- AFI: Disaster resilience in a changing environment
- African Risk Capacity: Innovative insurance policy purchased to protect against drought risk in Zimbabwe
- CGAP: Agritech can empower women to build stronger, inclusive value chains
- GSMA: Mobile money and consumer financial health | download report
- ISF Advisors: Getting ‘smarter’ on subsidies to enable more financing for agri-SMEs
- Is ‘Google Insurance’ on the horizon?
- PULA: Launching progressive agricultural insurance in Pakistan
- PULA: Reflections for 2022: why everyday is about understanding people
- Sønr & EY – InsurTech 100 launch interview
- UNCDF: More women’s voices in DFS policymaking – the A-Z of building an advisory panel