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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.

About the Centre of Excellence

The Platform delivers on four pillars

Knowledge & Evidence

Aggregates research on gender –sensitive, -responsive, and -transformative approaches to Climate and

Guidance

Collates guidance notes, tools and toolkits to support policy makers and practitioners with implemen

Opportunity

Promotes information on relevant training opportunities and resources which aim to advance gender eq

Community

A platform for collaboration on gender-specific approaches to enhance the development of Climate and
News

Gender and Disaster Risk – What’s men got to do with it?

10 03 2023

Scholarship for the Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators 2022/23

30 12 2022

Call for Applications: Advisory Support on gender-smart Monitoring & Evaluation

14 07 2022

The InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions received the GIZ Gender Award

15 03 2022

Mahila Housing Trust showcasing the Cooperation with the InsuResilience Centre of Excellence on Gender-smart Solutions at COP26, High-level UK Presidency Event

23 11 2021
Events
11
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…
Recent Documents
Case Study Kenya 2023
Country Case Study

Family Insurance to Expand Drought Protection to Women in Kenya’s Arid Rangelands

Pastoralist communities, who rely on livestock for their livelihoods, are particularly vulnerable to extreme drought which is becoming more common due to climate change. Index-based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) has proven vital in these communities but has not appealed to women because in most cases men control the family’s livestock and the insurance payments for losses. Family Insurance is built on…
Country Case Study

MiCRO / SBS / Bancamía – Boosting Resilience for Microentrepreneurs

Despite the delays that the pandemic caused to the design and implementation of new products, three years after the launch of the first parametric insurance in Colombia, the Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organization (MiCRO) and its local partners have been able to provide almost 120,000 beneficiaries with increased protection against the impacts of hazards such as excess rain, drought and earthquakes.…
Country Case Study

WFP Nicaragua – Insurance and Social Protection: A Key Tool to Increase Resilience and Food Security in Nicaragua

For the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP), enabling access to Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI) solutions is central to fulfilling its mandate to achieve zero hunger through both saving and changing lives. WFP Nicaragua is leading the efforts in the Latin American and Caribbean region to implement a risk-layering insurance approach. A combination of financial instruments…
Report, Study

The Gender-responsiveness of InsuResilience Projects

The InsuResilience Global Partnership (IGP) has prioritized gender as a key crosscutting objective in accordance with the definition in the IGP Vision 2025 and the Declaration on Gender. The aim is that all projects should meet the criteria for gender-responsive Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance (CDRFI). In order to achieve this, the IGP has carried out a range…
Country Case Study, Study

Gender and Poverty-related Barriers of the Urban Poor to access Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance: Evidence from the Mahila Housing Trust in India

Climate change is predicted to have a significant impact on global poverty levels. According to a World Bank report, climate change is projected to push up to 132 million additional people into extreme poverty by 2030. This is due to the fact that many of the people who are living in poverty are also the ones who are most vulnerable…

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