This I4 technical meeting in Washington D.C. brought together researchers and stakeholders of the Index Insurance Innovation Initiative at UC Davis.

• Meeting agenda

Presentations:

• Using behavioral experiments to design index insurance 
  Michael Carter, UC Davis
• Interlinked Credit and Insurance Contracts in Theory
  Michael Carter, UC Davis
• Interlinked Product Designs in Practice 
  Craig McIntosh, UC San Diego
• Dual Strikepoint Contracts to Reduce Basis Risk in Mali: The Education of Cotton Farmers in Mali
  Marc Bellemare, Duke University
• Single Step Indemnity Schedule and Farmer Focal Points in Peru
  Carolina Trivelli, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
• Sharing rules and demand in semi-formal groups
  Daniel Clarke, Oxford University
• Revisiting conventional insurance contracts in Ecuador
  Steve Boucher, UC Davis
• Year Two of IBLI in Kenya
  Chris Barrett, Cornell University
  Andrew Mude, ILRI
• Evolving Educational Marketing Practices in Peru
  Carolina Trivelli, IEP
• USAID Interest in Index Insurance
  Lena Heron, USAID
• Market development in Ethiopia: changing regulatory structure and capacity building
  Ruth Vargas Hill, IFPRI
• Public Private Partnerships for Agricultural InsurancePublic-Private Partnerships for Agricultural Risk Management through Risk Layering: The Case of Ecuador
  Steve Boucher and Elizabeth Long, UC Davis
• Insurance and Poverty Traps in Pastoral Societies
  Nobu Ikegami, ILRI
  Sarah Janzen, UC Davis
• Managing Risk in the Context of Climate Change
  Nora Ferm, USAID
• Perceptions and Participation: Randomized Encouragement Design and Demand for Index Insurance
  Conner Mullally, Inter-American Development Bank

Participant list:

• Chris Barrett, Cornell University
• Marc Bellemare, Duke University
• Michael Carter, University of California, Davis
• Ken Chomitz, Independent Evaluation Group
• Daniel Clarke, Oxford University
• Nora Ferm, United States Agency for International Development
• Xavier Giné, World Bank
• Lena Heron, United States Agency for International Development
• Stephen Hutton, Independent Evaluation Group
• Munenobu Ikegami, International Livestock Research Institute
• Sarah Janzen, University of California, Davis
• Neha Kumar, International Food Policy Research Institute
• Elizabeth Long, University of California, Davis
• Craig McIntosh, University of California, San Diego
• Parendi Mehta, International Food Policy Research Institute
• Andrew Mude, International Livestock Research Institute
• Conner Mullally, Inter-American Development Bank
• Peter Ouzounov, International Food Policy Research Institute
• Marc Sadler, World Bank
• Carolina Trivelli, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
• Ruth Vargas Hill, International Food Policy Research Institute
• Emily Zimmerman, EA Consultants