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Unique support of the InsuResilience Solutions Fund
We offer a tiered approach in contributing to the development and implementation of climate risk insurance for vulnerable people in order to increase their resilience and adaptation to climate change.

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Climate Risk Analysis
We offer impartial assessment of climate risk and risk models applied, empowering partners to identify the full spectrum of adaptation strategies necessary to build resilience.

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We help to identify innovative Climate Risk Insurance solutions and provide guidance and advisory on the elements that are necessary to design and conceptualise effective insurance projects.

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We support and promote joint product development and implementation of innovative Climate Risk Insurance products that add value for affected people.

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We support and provide grant-based funding to enhance affordability of the CDRFI product(s) and bring these solutions to market. Offered exclusively to partners that have or are receiving support from the ISF for the development, improvement and implementation of their Climate Risk Insurance product(s).

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Project Brief C10.10 Kenya

Scaling Up Parametric Flood Insurance at the Sub-National Level in Kenya

Costa Rica’s GRMA Inception Report

The Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) programme’s, in collaboration with Costa Rica’s Superintendencia General de Seguros (SUGESE), Inception Report.

Innovative risk transfer solution for urban flooding in Accra, Ghana

Report on two parametric insurance products in Ghana: the Excess Rainfall Cover and the Flood Footprint Product.

InsuResilience Solutions Fund’s (ISF) Annual Report 2024

Learn about our accomplishments from 2024.

Agriculture Risk Resilience Insurance Access Programme in Malawi

The objective of the feasibility study was to examine the demand side, supply side, and enabling environment to reach a conclusion on how to embed climate risk insurance product(s) with Affordable Inputs Program in Malawi.

Pre-Feasibility Study for Agricultural Insurance in Tanzania

This feasibility study seeks to explore the challenges and opportunities in providing multi-peril crop insurance to smallholder farmers in Tanzania.

Costa Rica Scoping Report

This scoping report describes the origin of GRMA support Costa Rica, outlines the activities and outcomes of the first country workshops, and details the agreed scope and timeline for implementing the GRMA programme in Costa Rica.

Capability Development Study for the Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA)

A new report by GRMA demonstrates the positive impact of investing in risk reduction using effective adaptation measures, and how public private partnerships can empower climate-vulnerable countries to combine global best practices with local expertise to develop the best climate and disaster risk financing and insurance solutions.

Launch of Madagascar’s GRMA Phase 1 Inception Report

The Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) programme, in collaboration with Madagascar’s Cellule de Prévention et d’appui à la Gestion des Urgences (CPGU), is pleased to announce the publication of the Phase 1 Inception Report.

Launch: InsuResilience Solutions Fund Annual Report 2023

The InsuResilience Solutions Fund’s (ISF) Annual Report 2023 highlights the activities and developments of the Fund throughout the past five years, since its inception. We have made substantial progress in strengthening climate risk management, as well as Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) architecture, globally.

Nigeria GRMA Scoping Report

This scoping report describes the origin of GRMA support Nigeria, outlines the activities and outcomes of the first country workshop, and details the agreed scope and timeline for implementing the GRMA programme in Nigeria.

Affordable Insurance Package(s) for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Sri Lanka Covering Flood Disaster Damages

Flooding is currently the largest contributor to Sri Lanka’s average annual losses from disasters, amounting to approximately USD 200 million per year.

Launch: InsuResilience Solutions Fund Annual Report 2022

The InsuResilience Solutions Fund’s (ISF) Annual Report 2022 highlights the activities and developments of the Fund throughout the past year. We have made substantial progress in strengthening climate risk management, as well as Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) architecture, globally.

Madagascar GRMA Scoping Report

This report describes the origin of GRMA support to Madagascar, outlines the activities and outcomes of the country workshop (held in Antananarivo on February 22-23, 2023), and makes the initial proposal for GRMA programme activities in Madagascar.

Pakistan GRMA Inception Report

This report describes the origin of GRMA support to Pakistan, outlines the activities and outcomes of the inception workshop (held in Islamabad on December 8-9, 2022) and details the agreed scope and timeline for implementing the GRMA programme in Pakistan.

Disaster risk transfer solutions for urban settings in Vietnam

WTW, AXA Climate, and Guy Carpenter conducted a feasibility study for the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) to assess the setting up of disaster risk transfer solutions for climate-vulnerable cities in Viet Nam. The feasibility study was carried out from November 2021 to February 2022 through desktop research and based on the data available from an […]

Feasibility study: Insurance of fruits and vegetables in Uzbekistan

The study focusses on the potential multi-peril indemnity insurance product as a coverage for the most vulnerable farmers of the fruit and vegetable sector.

Launch: InsuResilience Solutions Fund Annual Report 2021

The InsuResilience Solutions Fund’s (ISF) Annual Report 2021 highlights the activities and developments of the Fund throughout the past year in strengthening climate-risk management and insurance.

Providing index-based insurance to smallholder Farmers in Togo

The present pilot project was conducted to prove with a new insurance product that parametric target group oriented insurance products for small scale farmers are feasible and that there is sufficient demand for agricultural insurance in Togo as a sustainable instrument to protect farmers against climate risks.

Parametric Insurance for Smallholder Farmers of Maize in Mexico

According to the terms of reference (ToR) and the contract signed by the project partners Guy Carpenter, Munich Re, Swiss Re, and AXA Climate with the Insuresilience Solutions Fund (ISF) the objective of the present feasibility study is: to find the elements that will allow the development of a suitable insurance cover to protect smallholder farmers (owning and/or cultivating less than 5 hectares) in Mexico against extreme weather events (drought and excess rain).

New Climate Risk Analysis Report: Ethiopia Drought Risk

Storms, floods, droughts, and other extreme weather events can threaten urban and rural areas, from small regions to entire nations. Along with growing populations and economies, losses from natural hazards are rising in the world’s most exposed areas as our climate continues to change.

Global and local, public and private: How climate-vulnerable countries can have the best in understanding risk

A fast-track climate analysis has been conducted for Ghana and Uganda, using open risk models and freely available global data.

New Climate Risk Analysis assesses expected risks from flooding and cost-efficient adaptation measures for San Pedro Sula, Honduras

To respond effectively to the complexity and uncertainties of climate-related flood impacts and thus strengthen the resilience of the affected population in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, a climate risk analysis provides an essential tool to quantify the expected impact of climate risks but also to identify cost-effective adaptation measures.

Making India’s crop insurance more inclusive through technology

The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) is a crop insurance program for smallholder farmers in India.

Climada: Urban flood resilience against riverine floods in Uganda and Nigeria

With increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, climate change translates into unprecedented damages.

CLIMADA: Coastal Protection in Vietnam Tropical Cyclone Risk

Comprehensive assessment of climate risk becomes increasingly important to develop effective adaptation strategies.

New Climate Risk Analysis Report: Cần Thơ, Vietnam Compound Flood Risk & Heat Waves

Storms, floods, droughts, and other extreme weather events can threaten urban and rural areas, from small regions to entire nations. Along with growing populations and economies, losses from natural hazards are rising in the World’s most exposed areas as our climate continues to change.

Launch: InsuResilience Solutions Fund Annual Report 2020

The InsuResilience Solutions Fund’s Annual Report 2020 highlights the activities and engagements of ISF in the past year and shares the progress that the Fund has made in strengthening climate-risk management and insurance.

Empowering Climate Resilient Development and Transformation in Vietnam

What is the expected climate-related damage to the assets/commodities and to societies due to the identified climate risks until 2050?

Assessment of risk exposure & disaster risk management and proposal of a potential risk transfer solution for the municipality of the central district

A new publication by the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) in cooperation with the Global Communities and Willis Towers Watson illustrates a risk transfer solution for the city of Tegucigalpa.

Prefeasibility Study for a parametric typhoon insurance in the Philippines

This prefeasibility study is compiled by CelsiusPro and MAA General Assurance Philippines to evaluate the viability of introducing a parametric typhoon insurance scheme for the Filipino retail market. In collaboration with their main distribution partner, a national pawnshop operator (PO), the proposed Emergency Cash Product will provide a lump sum payment within days of a severe storm event.

Peruvian Public School Project – Feasibility Study Report

A new publication by the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) in cooperation with the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) and APESEG illustrates the importance of implementing an insurance program for the public schools in Peru.

Understanding Climate Risks – What does it mean for San Salvador?

A new publication by the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) in cooperation with the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) illustrates the importance of climate risk analysis as essential instrument of comprehensive climate risk management on the basis of results of a San Salvador case study.

Sustainability of Rapid Response Reef Risk Financing in the MAR Region

In preparation for the development of a reef insurance product in the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) Region, the ISF funded two preparatory studies by WTW and MAR Fund. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the conservation of the MAR region (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras) by implementing a parametric insurance model for reefs to deliver quick financing for rapid response and reef restoration actions, after damages caused by hurricanes.

Beneficiaries of Rapid Response Reef Risk Financing in the MAR Region

Insurance for reefs is an innovative financial mechanism that can contribute to reef restoration and recovery. The insurance element is part of a larger programme of work to build long-term resilience of reefs and the livelihoods they support and protect along the entire Mesoamerican Reef. In preparation for the development of a reef insurance product in the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) Region, the ISF funded two preparatory studies by WTW and MAR Fund.

Disaster Risk Assessment of Five Colombian Cities

To help KfW understand the weather-related and climate change risk exposure of major cities in Colombia, KfW commissioned Global Communities, in partnership with insurance industry partners (DLA Piper, Hannover Re and Willis Towers Watson) to assess the status of DRM in five Colombian cities: Cali, Cartagena, Manizales, Medellín and Pasto.

Prefeasibility Study on Large-Scale Smallholder Farm Drought Insurance in South Africa

Land Bank Insurance (SOC) Limited of South Africa and CelsiusPro join forces to develop and introduce an index drought insurance scheme (area-yield for crops and NDVI for livestock) consisting of both crop and livestock insurance for smallholder farmers in South Africa. South Africa is vulnerable to climate change and El Niño, that can further exacerbate […]