Network Exchange - September 2021 | Microinsurance Network

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Understanding consumer demand: lessons for inclusive insurance from the FMCG sector

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The only way you can know your customers is by getting up close and personal with them – and when it comes to customer-centricity, insurers can learn a lot from leading FMCG brands.

Closing the protection gap for medium, small, and micro enterprises

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Most MSMEs, especially in emerging economies, either lack any insurance cover or are woefully underinsured. Insurance companies are missing out on a massive market opportunity. Find out how the MiN is working to close the gap through the work of its Best Practice Group.

How inclusive insurance can help drive women’s economic empowerment

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Women’s economic empowerment boosts productivity and increases economic diversification and income equality. In this, the third article of our series, we explore the role of inclusive insurance in overcoming the obstacles which prevent women from realising their economic potential.

MiN & Members: Upcoming events

• ICII 2021 – Digital Edition | 25-29 October 2021 | Register now

• MiN Expert Forum: Supporting women’s economic empowerment in insurance | 30 September 2021 from 4-5pm CEST | Register now (open to all!)

• MiN & InFiNe.lu: Caught in the rain: what is the protection gap and why should you care? | 29 September | Register now

• MiN, MiCRO and APESEG: ¿Por qué los seguros siguen siendo un privilegio de pocos?: Barreras y Soluciones | 22 de Octubre de 2021 | Inscríbase ahora

• UNDP Insurance & Risk Finance Facility Launch | 27 September 2021 | Register now

• CNseg: Conseguro 2021 | 27 de Setembro a 1º de Outubro | Inscreva-se agora

• FinProbity Solutions: Insurance Solutions Practitioners & Facilitators Seminar | 28 September 2021 | Register now

• Pakistan Microfinance Network: Annual Microfinance Conference 2021 | 5-7 October 2021 | Serena Hotel, Islamabad | Download the agenda

• ADA: African Microfinance Week 2021 | 18-22 October 2021 | Register now

• InsuResilience Annual Forum 2021 | 28-29 October 2021 | Save the date

• ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility: Insurance for Development online course | 1 November-3 December 2021 | Application deadline: 27 September 2021

• European Microfinance Week | 17-19 November 2021 | Register now

MiN & Members: Past events

• Inclusive Insurance in the Central and Eastern Europe and the Transcaucasian (CEET) region | Watch the recordings & download the presentations

• MiN Country Workshop – Morocco: Microinsurance, Financial Inclusion and Resilience | Watch the recordings in French & English (members only)

• MiN, FIDES and ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility: Impulsando la inclusión en los mercados de seguros: el rol de las asociaciones de aseguradoras | Ver la grabación

• Women’s World Banking: Using AI to Develop Gender-Sensitive Financial Solutions | Watch the recording

• World Food Programme: Anticipatory Action Event 2021 | Watch the recording

MiN & Members: News, Blogs, Jobs & Resources

• Listen to the 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙧 podcast from 18 August 2021, featuring MiN’s Katharine Pulvermacher and Itumeleng Kgafela from BIMA

• MiN Country brief: Mexico (members only)

• ADA: Improving the quality of life of low-income populations: focus on Honduras and El Salvador

• BIMA and Pula offer insurance to PAYGo customers to help with unexpected medical costs and crop losses

• Cenfri: A survey on Automation of insurance distribution in SSA

• Cenfri: Financial sector innovation in Africa

• Etherisc and Acre Africa announce first payouts through blockchain based platform in Kenya

• Fasecolda: Inició piloto de programa 'Educación Económica y Financiera'

• IFAD: In Rwanda, public-private partnerships benefit small-scale cassava farmers

• IFAD: Supporting rural women’s land rights

• ILO's Social Finance Programme: Annual Report 2020

• MicroEnsure: A case for inclusive insurance

• World Food Programme is looking for a Climate Insurance & Financial Inclusion Specialist (Consultant) | Deadline for applications: 14 October 2021

• WFP: Does Climate Insurance Work? Evidence from WFP-Supported Microinsurance Programmes – 2021

Elsewhere in the sector...

• Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI): COVID-19 Policy Response Dashboard

• Association of Bulgarian Insurers: “Attitudes Towards Insurance And Insurance Literacy 2020"

• Assurance agricole et paiement digital

• CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security report: Climate action to transform food systems

• Financial literacy — learn now, benefit later

• Gender equality: the catalyst to addressing the triple crisis facing Latin American and the Caribbean

• Government has to solve systemic constraints to spur digitisation – UNCDF

• IBISA Network: Tackling the climate challenge: Where can insurtech make a meaningful impact? (online event) | 29 September | Register now

• Luxembourg Microfinance and Development Fund: Everyone has the right to Education

• MTN and Sanlam join forces to build Africa-wide digital insurance business

• Parametric Insurance in Latin America: Innovative concepts close insurance gaps

• PULA is looking for a Head of Insurance & Reinsurance

• Rwanda, Singapore enter financial services deal: what it means

• The Pandemic Pushed Insurtech Funding to an All-Time High

• UNDP and Duke University launch online course to foster private investments towards the Global Goals

• United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction: There's no such thing as "natural" disasters

• Why payment apps that thrive in India struggle to succeed in Mexico