Banking on resilience: building capacities through financial services inclusion
This BRACED policy brief looks at experiences in Mali, Ethiopia and Myanmar in helping to build resilience to climate extremes and disasters through increased financial inclusion.
A Range of Approaches to Address Loss and Damage from Climate Change Impacts in Bangladesh
The report provides policymakers and other decision makers in Bangladesh with information that will help them make decisions and implement approaches to address – and reduce – loss and damage.
Sustainable Livelihood Development
This project increased awareness on WATSAN and Micro Insurance schemes, while addressing climate impacts on livelihoods, climate and disaster risk reduction capacity, building and risk assessment.
Nepal: Adaptation Options
The major impact from floods and landslides on the victims' livelihoods are reduction in income source and in availability of agricultural production. These impacts affect the daily food...
Scaling up microinsurance
The nature of microinsurance raises questions as to the sustainability of the schemes currently on offer. By their nature microinsurance premiums...
Nepal baseline vulnerability assessment and social indices
Nepal baseline vulnerability assessment and social indices
Microinsurance
Microinsurance, like traditional insurance, is a risk-sharing mechanism in which premiums are paid by all members of the insurance scheme, and this pool of premiums is used to...
Examples of Index-based microinsurance schemes
Herders in Mongolia. Picture: George Holden
Livestock herding plays a very important role in Mongolia, contributing to 87% of...
Examples of conventional microinsurance schemes
The most common type of conventional microinsurance offered is Health insurance, however property and accident insurance is also offered by some providers.
Yeshavini Trust, India: Health...
