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

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…

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…

Colombia is one of the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC) countries to have achieved substantial progress in financial protection Public Policies (PPs). Following the integral approach of the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and through a comprehensive review of international and (sub)national regulatory frameworks, this study analyzes the PPs relating to climate risk transfer in Colombia as well as exploring…

For over a decade, WFP has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women’s economic empowerment. WFP presents the story of women that have access to WFP’s climate risk insurance and related interventions. Insurance might not be the silver bullet, still, it is an important component to achieve financial protection and build resilience,…

This toolkit provides a gender-smart Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI) policy self-assessment framework to identify and analyse the extent to which gender considerations are integrated into your country’s CDRFI-related policies and where there are gaps. This analysis can help you to understand the extent to which gender-based differences in behaviour, risks and vulnerabilities between people are considered…