All publications: social finance

Microinsurance Innovation Facility: Catalyzing protection of the working poor: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility was launched in 2008. Generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Z Zurich Foundation, and Munich Re has made it possible to dramatically expand the outreach of insurance services to...

Microfinance support programme in Viet Nam: Public-Private Partnership

Microfinance has played an important role in national, provincial and local efforts to reduce poverty over this period with over 300,000 regular clients of microfinance institutions. However, access to relevant and sustainable microfinance services...

Social Finance Working Paper #61: Labour unions and financial inclusion in South Africa

How labour unions facilitate the provision of financial services for their members

ESS Paper Series (SECSOC) - ESS 48

Fiscal space for social protection. Options to expand social investments in 187 countries

This paper presents eight financing alternatives, based on policy positions by the United Nations and international financial institutions, and shows that fiscal space for social protection exists even in the poorest countries.

Microfinance for Decent Work – Enhancing the impact of microfinance: Evidence from an action research programme

Microfinance for Decent Work – Enhancing the impact of microfinance: Evidence from an action research programme

Social Finance Working Paper #58: Microinsurance and Child Labour

An impact evaluation of NRSP’s (Pakistan) microinsurance innovation

Claims management in inclusive insurance

Claims represent the tangible benefit of insurance to policyholders as positive experiences are key to developing trust. This training will provide inclusive insurance practitioners with the tools, knowledge and confidence to improve the claims...

Managing inclusive insurance distribution

Distribution is a particularly important question for those looking to deliver insurance to new markets. With low margins, insurers need to find low-cost channels that can reach clients in large numbers. These challenges mean that insurers need to...

Prevention and elimination of bonded labour: the potential and limits of microfinance-led approaches

This paper, authored by S. Premchander V. Prameela and M. Chidambaranathan of the Indian NGO SAMPARK, documents the learning processes of the NGOs and microfinance organizations that experimented with different approaches to microfinance and bonded...

Working Paper No. 59

Social Finance Working Paper #59: Microfinance and enterprise’s formalisation

An impact study of ESAF’s (India) microfinance innovation

Health inclusive insurance: Getting started

Health insurance mitigates financial risk due to illness. It contains specific features which distinguish it from other insurance product lines, and which add complexity. This training will provide inclusive insurance practitioners (insurers and...

Enhancing access to finance

The ILO approach to enhancing finance for small enterprises focuses on building the capacity on both the demand and the supply side (see Figure 1). Financial service providers (FSPs) are strengthened to be able to provide relevant products, and...

Social Finance Working Paper #57: Microfinance and job creation

A social performance assessment of a new loan delivery mechanism, Bai Tushum Kyrgyzstan

Client value series #3: Creating an enabling environment to improve client value

The last brief of client value series provides recommendations for policy-makers, regulators and funders on how to create an enabling environment that promotes client value. The insights are based on new impact evidence of microinsurance and the...

Microcredit in France: What impact does it have on employment?

Client value series #2: Ten blueprints for microinsurance providers

The second brief in the client value series provides recommendations for insurance companies, other risk-carriers and distributors (broadly defined as providers) on how to improve the value that their microinsurance offerings provide to clients....

Microfinance Support Programme, Viet Nam

Microfinance has played an important role in national, provincial and local efforts to reduce poverty over this period with over 300,000 regular clients to microfinance institutions. However, access to relevant and sustainable microfinance services...

Client value series #1: Is there value in microinsurance?

Drawing on several years of original research as well as other evidence from the field, the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility and the MicroInsurance Centre’s Microinsurance Learning and Knowledge (MILK) project provide concrete insights into...

Managing partnerships in inclusive insurance

Many inclusive insurance programs involve some type of partnership structure; and “good” partnerships have been identified as one of the key factors in the success of an inclusive insurance program. This training will help inclusive insurance...