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The InsuResilience Global Partnership’s High-Level Consultative Group endorses Declaration on Gender

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Welcome to the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions!

Your online repository of information and knowledge-exchange platform on gender-related aspects in the area of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI).

The InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions will enable you to find out how to create gender-transformative action on the ground by accessing the latest knowledge, provide hands-on guidance, inform you on exciting opportunities and bring you closer to a vivid community that is re-thinking gender-inclusiveness.

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The Platform delivers on the four pillars:

Knowledge & Evidence

Aggregates research on gender –sensitive, -responsive, and -transformative approaches to Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance in order to build an evidence-base of emerging good practices and effective strategies.

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Guidance

Collates guidance notes, tools and toolkits to support policy makers and practitioners with implementing gender-smart solutions across their work.

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Opportunity

Promotes information on relevant training opportunities and resources which aim to advance gender equality such as leadership training, funding and scholarship opportunities, plus many more.

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Community

A platform for collaboration on gender-specific approaches to enhance the development of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance solutions and management of information. To this end, the Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions will host online and in person events and create an online portal for dialogue, through the InsuResilience Risk Talk tool and other reputable platforms.

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06 09 2021

Agents of Change: Key Takeaways from the Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators Scholars

Despite recent progress in overall financial inclusion, women in emerging markets continue to have little access to insurance services and climate and disaster risk reduction financing products. In light of these persisting barriers, the InsuResilience Global Partership, together with Access to Insurance…
01 06 2021

Announcement: Canada commits financing for the scale-up of the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions 

The InsuResilience Global Partnership is pleased to announce a financing agreement with the Government of Canada for the advancement of activities under the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions (‘the Centre of Excellence’).    Canada has committed 1.6 million Canadian dollars to the Centre of Excellence over the coming…
07 12 2020

It’s time to kick-off the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender Smart Solutions!

Within the scope of the InsuResilience Global Partnership (the Partnership) Annual Forum held virtually between 7 – 11 December 2020, the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence for Gender-smart Solutions has kicked-off…
07 12 2020

The InsuResilience Global Partnership’s High-Level Consultative Group endorses Declaration on Gender

The High-Level Consultative Group (HLCG), the highest governing body and strategic driver of the InsuResilience Global Partnership (‘the Partnership’), in its latest strategic meeting held on 15 September 2020, endorsed…
Recent Documents
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The Role of Insurance Supervisors in Boosting Women’s Access to Insurance

Women’s access to insurance contributes to the mandate of insurance supervisors to maintain a fair, safe, and stable insurance market, and more broadly, sustainable development. Yet, this potential of women’s insurance is still to be realised as available data indicates women are currently underserved by the insurance sector. This very much reflects the wider context of the persistent financial inclusion…
Guidance Notes

Step by Step Guidance: A gender-smart approach to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) Programmes

This guidance note provides practical step-by-step guidance on how to achieve a gender-smart Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) programme through effective planning for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) throughout each stage of the programme cycle. This includes at the design, implementation, and impact stages of such a programme. Additionally, it also provides advice on the collection and use…
Guidance Notes

Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Disaster Recovery

This Guidance Note aims to provide action-oriented guidance to local and national government officials and key decision makers who face post-disaster challenges and to assist them in incorporating gender-responsive recovery and reconstruction efforts across all sectors through robust gender assessments that lead to concrete needs identification and gender-specific recovery strategies and frameworks. The note also addresses the different challenges that women…
Country Case Study, Study

Gender and Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance

This paper seeks to contribute toward research on Gender and Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance to increase the local knowledge base of indigenous sources of information to inform national and regional level strategies for the inclusion of marginalized groups. More specifically, the aim is to explore to what extent small-scale farmers – with a focus on women farmers…
Working Paper & Policy Brief

Glossary of key terms and concepts for gender, as it relates to Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance

This document aims to provide clear definitions for commonly used terms and key concepts related to the intersection of gender and climate and disaster risk finance and insurance (CDRFI). It was jointly developed by members of the InsuResilience Gender Working Group.   The list of terms and concepts draws from the foundational documents of the Partnership, including the Pro-Poor Principles the Vision 2025,…
Events
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Mar

LIVE TALK 03: How to implement gender-related Climate Risk Finance commitments and strategies on the ground?

Explore how gender-responsive Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI) lies at the intersection of various international policy commitments and agendas and where there…