Category Archives: ILRI

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 →

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Insure your herd now!

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Sales of IBLI are currently ongoing across Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia.  Please find a listing below of the Sales Coordinators in your area and contact them today!  Sales close at the end of September. Marsabit, Kenya Takaful Insurance of Africa – Adan Aide (0721 588 881) APA Insurance – Edin Ibrahim (0712 203 396) Isiolo, Kenya … 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 →

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Call for IBLI Enumerators!!

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Applications are invited to fill position of Enumerator for the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Project. This is a temporary position for a period of 7 weeks beginning 14th September and closing on 31st of October 2015. Learn more about IBLI project at http://ibli.ilri.org or on Facebook and Twitter. Candidates should have Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Natural Resources … 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 →