Websites
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling work-related issues.
In promoting social justice and internationally recognised human and labour rights, the organisation continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity. Today, the ILO helps advance the creation of decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that give working people and business people a stake in lasting peace, prosperity and progress.
Microfinance Gateway
Microfinance Gateway is a comprehensive online resource for the global microfinance community. The website features research and publications, original articles, organisation and consultant profiles, and the latest industry announcements, news, events, and job opportunities.
Microinsurance Innovation Facility
Housed at the International Labour Organisation's Social Finance Programme, the Microinsurance Innovation Facility seeks to increase the availability of quality insurance for the developing world’s low-income families to help them guard against risk and overcome poverty
Munich Re Foundation
Munich Re concerns itself with the great challenges facing the world today – population growth, globalisation, diminishing resources, environmental pollution, climate change.
The foundation’s benefactor derives its competence to address the key questions affecting the future of society and to accept social responsibility in solving the problems that lie ahead from its knowledge of the tasks and issues these challenges pose for societies and economies.
The benefactor’s primary interest is to play an active part in finding innovative solutions in the context of international population development and globalisation and their impact on the future of humanity in countries in different stages of development. The foundation’s role is to concentrate specifically on the interaction between population development and the medium of water as elixir of life, resource, and risk factor.
Against this backdrop, the areas in which the foundation can be actively involved are many and varied, encompassing education and training, science and research, disaster prevention, environmental protection, and public healthcare.
Microinsurance Network
The Microinsurance Network is a member-based network of donor organisations, multilateral agencies, insurance and social protection providers, policymakers and academics. It provides a platform for information sharing and stakeholder coordination with the aim to promote the development and proliferation of insurance products for low-income persons.
Over Half a Million Lives Covered in Tanzania
MicroEnsure has experienced remarkable growth in Tanzania and now covers a landmark 600,000 lives in the country.
Credit Health Launches in Ghana
MicroEnsure Ghana is launching credit health insurance to further support microfinance clients in West Africa.
MicroEnsure Philippines Responds to Victims of Typhoon Sendong
With around 20 tropical storms or typhoons a year the threat of natural calamities is constant in the Philippines.
Scaling Up Weather Index Microinsurance
IFC support for MicroEnsure’s weather index insurance in Tanzania demonstrates the viability of scaling up weather index microinsurance.
