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Project Report: G8 Enabling Action on Risk: Advancing Index Insurance by Closing the Gap between Knowledge and Implementation

From 2014 to 2019, USAID partnered with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access and its affiliated Index Insurance Innovation Initiative (I4) to act on growing political momentum around agricultural index insurance as a tool for safeguarding rural families against uninsured risk.

Spotlight: Testing Agricultural Index Insurance for Minimum Quality

This Spotlight illustrates how MQS works with three hypothetical datasets. While two of the three contracts fail MQS, each can be improved in different ways to provide greater value to farmers.

Success Story: Identifying an Essential Need for Responsible Index Insurance and Filling the Gap

The Global Action Network was launched with the hopes that drawing together key stakeholders and change agents could identify important gaps in knowledge or capabilities, and then innovate solutions to these problems and create resources to address them.

Spotlight: Conducting a “3-D” Assessment of an Index Insurance Contract’s Client Value

The Global Action Network (GAN), a collaboration between the AMA Innovation Lab and the ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility, has just released a “3-D” Client Value Assessment tool that provides a multi-dimensional measure of an insurance contract’s total value proposition for existing or potential clients.

2016 Global Action Network on Agriculture Insurance Working Group Meeting Highlights

During these Geneva meetings, the draft outputs of tools and guidelines for index insurance were presented to the broader GAN membership for feedback and application.

Policy Brief: Measuring Index Insurance Quality

In this note, we suggest a framework to measure index insurance quality and show how this approach can help design and compare insurance products.