“Microinsurance that Works for Ladies: Making Microinsurance Applications Gender-Delicate” introduces the ground-breaking work that Ladies’s World Banking has carried out on creating microinsurance applications tailor-made to the distinctive wants of girls.

By means of intensive market analysis performed from 2003 to 2008 in eight international locations spanning South Asia, Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Center East, Japanese Europe, and Latin America, Ladies’s World Banking has noticed that poor girls are particularly weak to dangers associated to well being, revenue era, outdated age, and dying. Ladies’s World Banking has additionally discovered that girls are sometimes the caregivers of their households and are usually answerable for managing the well being dangers of their members of the family, which frequently entails further prices, akin to transportation to and from medical services and misplaced revenue as a result of having to divert time away from income-generating actions. This publication explores how microinsurance might be designed and delivered to assist them handle these dangers and prices and contribute to poverty alleviation.

Developed by way of a partnership with the Zurich Insurance coverage Firm and the Microinsurance Centre and revealed by the Worldwide Labour Group’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility, the publication goals to catalyze a dialogue amongst microfinance practitioners, donors, and the tutorial neighborhood on the necessity for gender-sensitive microinsurance.

With further assist from the ILO, Ladies’s World Banking and Zurich can be launching a caregiver microinsurance product to profit shoppers of Ladies’s World Banking community member, Microfund for Ladies in Jordan. The primary of its form, the product will present inexpensive medical insurance together with predefined advantages for caregivers throughout hospitalization.

Authors: Anjali Banthia, Susan Johnson, Michael J. McCord, and Brandon Mathews