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The ILO's Impact Insurance Facility partners with Habitat for Humanity and Britam to develop new property insurance solutions

The ILO's Impact Insurance Facility is happy to announce a partnership with the global non-profit housing organization Habitat for Humanity, and the financial services group Britam, for a new project on "Developing new property insurance solutions".

The UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) held its 32nd regular meeting

The meeting brought together 40 participants including representatives of the six member, eleven observer organizations and three resource persons.

UNTFSSE participates in the launching of the MedTOWN conference

UNTFSSE participates in the closing session of the first edition of the Digital Mont Blanc Meetings

Emerging Insight: Creating an efficient, sustainable and socially responsible insurance culture in Colombia

Social protection

ILO: Developing countries should invest US$1.2 trillion to guarantee basic social protection

Closing the coverage gap, worsened by COVID-19, will require additional sources of financing says a new ILO study.

Making rural communities in India resilient to climate shocks and disasters

This ILO’s Social Finance project works on protecting vulnerable agriculture communities and jobs against weather and climate risks. Leveraging our experience we are now working with IFAD to develop a proposal for a new integrated financing...

Emerging Insight: Women can become powerful advocates for insurance within local communities

Emerging Insight: A digital health wallet to help millions of Kenyans access healthcare

Emerging Insight: Looking beyond traditional distribution channels to develop a nascent insurance market

Emerging Insight: Women’s safety nets are falling away

Training in times of social distancing

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, all of us have had to adapt and started to rethink our ways of working. At Social Finance, our capacity building activities make up an important part of our portfolio. Since the spread of COVID-19, we and our...

Emerging Insight: Postal networks are facilitating doorstep banking during COVID-19

Emerging Insight: Designing insurance products that better serve women entrepreneurs

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

ILO welcomes joint action to tackle COVID-19 threats to global garment industry

Employers, workers, retailers and major brands will form an international working group – convened by the International Labour Organization – to address the already serious damage to the garment industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emerging Insight: Helping mothers save for education

Extending Micro Finance Services to Refugees and Host Communities in Kenya

In December 2019, the ILO working closely with UNHCR organized a scoping mission to the two refugee camps in Kenya (Kakuma and Dadaab) to enable five Kenyan Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) to assess business viability in the refugee hosting areas.

Emerging Insight: Integrated risk management solutions for low-income households

Emerging Insight: The best of 2019

Emerging Insight: Providing insurance in Côte d’Ivoire through alternative distribution channels