All publications: social finance

Promoting inclusive insurance products: A 10-step planning model

A study done by the Facility found that insurers continue to struggle to stimulate and sustain demand for their products partly because of long held and significant audience barriers to purchase. This training will enable practitioners to design...

Client value series: Introduction

For several years, the Microinsurance Innovation Facility and the MicroInsurance Centre’s Microinsurance Learning and Knowledge (MILK) project have been assessing if low-income people actually benefit from insurance and how the value they derive...

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...

Case Brief

SAJIDA Foundation microinsurance

SAJIDA has consistently found ways to improve the value of its product for clients. From faster claims to community health workers, find out in Case Brief #3 how it uses the PACE tool to identify improvements.

Pricing in inclusive insurance

Inclusive insurance providers see the need for increased understanding and expertise in pricing their products. This training will help pricing specialists responsible for calculating different projections to better understand the specificities of...

Professional microcredit in France: what effect on employment?

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Improving Productivity in Microenterprises by Reducing Occupational Safety and Health Risks

Pathways towards greater impact: Improving your MFI's inclusive insurance offering

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) can be one of the most effective distribution channels for delivering inclusive insurance, given their trust-based relationship with emerging consumers and infrastructure to provide financial services. Unfortunately,...

Pricing for microinsurance: A technical guide

Microinsurance providers expressed a need for increased understanding and expertise in pricing their products. This need was confirmed by a survey conducted in selected countries and with selected microinsurance providers by the ILO's Impact...

Capacity building self-assessment guide for microinsurance providers

This tool is a questionnaire to guide self assessment of institutional rationale and readiness to start microinsurance initiatives.

Brief profile on the Microinsurance Innovation Facility of the Social Finance Programme

Employment for social justice and a fair globalization

Brief profile on Social Finance

Employment for social justice and a fair globalization

Social Finance Working Paper #56: Strategies for unions to provide benefits and financial services to workers

Experiences in the United States

Managing microinsurance partnerships

This tool is a handbook to help providers and distribution channels better manage partnerships which are crucial to the success of microinsurance programmes given cost pressures and the need to reach scale.

Managing microinsurance partnerships: Partnership assessment questionnaire

This tool is a questionnaire to assess the state of existing partnerships in microinsurance

How to conduct a PACE client value assessment

PACE, the Facility’s client value assessment tool, helps organizations examine their products from the clients’ perspective by comparing the insurance offering with other formal and informal risk management tools. PACE provides a framework to...

Independent thematic evaluation of the Social Finance Programme 2005-2010 (Cluster evaluation Summary)

Projects GLO/07/08/GAT, GLO/09/01/LUX and German RBSA Funds - Evaluation consultant: Jacaranda Consult Ltd.

Independent thematic evaluation of the Social Finance Programme 2005-2010 - Cluster evaluation of GLO/07/08/GAT, GLO/09/01/LUX, Swiss...

Evaluation enterprise: Jacaranda Consult Group

Social Finance Working Paper #55: ROKIN Bank

The story of workers’ organizations that successfully promote financial inclusion

Social Finance Working Paper #54: Walking on a tightrope

Balancing MF financial sustainability and poverty orientation in Mali