Category Archives: IBLI

Integrating index-based livestock insurance with community savings and loan groups in northern Kenya
Africa / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / IBLI / ILRI / Impact Assessment / Insurance / Kenya / Livestock / Pastoralism / Resilience / SLS

Integrating index-based livestock insurance with community savings and loan groups in northern Kenya

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Partnering with members of group saving and loans organizations (GSLs) may be an effective way of undertaking extension work on index-based livestock insurance (IBLI). These are the findings of the latest ILRI research brief on Integrating index-based livestock insurance with community savings and loan groups in northern Kenya. Continue reading →

Gamification and mLearning, effective pedagogic tools in livestock insurance
Africa / Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / CCAFS / Countries / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Ethiopia / IBLI / ILRI / Insurance / Kenya / Livestock / Pastoralism / SLS

Gamification and mLearning, effective pedagogic tools in livestock insurance

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Despite numerous training programs delivered by governmental and non-government organizations in the arid and semi-arid land areas of Kenya and Ethiopia, little research has focused what forms of training are most effective and with which audiences. It is generally believed that mobile learning will be an effective pedagogic tool, given the high levels of mobile phone penetration in Kenya and the need to reinforce knowledge classroom-acquired knowledge through repetition over time. Continue reading →

Capacity development in the Index-Based Livestock Insurance project
Africa / Capacity Strengthening / CapDev / CCAFS / Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Ethiopia / IBLI / ILRI / Insurance / Kenya / Livestock / Pastoralism / SLS

Capacity development in the Index-Based Livestock Insurance project

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Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) is the world’s first index-based insurance designed to protect vulnerable pastoralists in drought-stricken areas from losing their primary asset—livestock. First developed by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to insure pastoralists in Kenya and Ethiopia, this specialized insurance product has had a considerable impact on the asset base and consumption activities of its intended beneficiaries—nomadic populations living in an expansive area. Continue reading →

Africa / Climate Change / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Ethiopia / IBLI / ILRI / Insurance / Livestock / SLS

Oromia Insurance offers new coverage for vulnerable livestock in Ethiopia

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IBLI is highlighted this week in Ethiopia’s weekly, English Newspaper Addis Fortune. It describes Oromia Insurance Company (OIC)’s efforts to insure livestock in the country through the index-based insurance scheme which compensates pastoralists for forage scarcity in order to keep their animals alive in times of severe drought. Continue reading →

DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / IBLI / ILRI / Insurance / Kenya / Livestock / SLS

Index-based insurance: Insurance or lottery tickets?

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Recently, there has been much excitement around the use of index-based insurance as an alternative to conventional insurance products that may extend the rural poor’s access to formal insurance coverage in developing countries. Index insurance provides indemnity payments based on a signal that is related to covariate losses rather than actual and observed individual losses. Continue reading →