Resources & Tools

Journal Articles

2019 Janzen, S. A., & Carter, M. R. (2013). After the drought: The impact of microinsurance on consumption smoothing and asset...

Crowdsourcing: an approach to revolutionize and improve rangeland monitoring

Crowdsourcing, which is outsourcing work to an undefined and often large group of people, is an innovative data collection approach that...

Livestock insurance gains ground in Africa

Governments across Africa are looking to protect pastoralists from the impacts of extreme weather with livestock insurance programs. But...

It’s all systems go for the scaling up of index-based livestock insurance in Ethiopia

For close to a decade, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and its partners in the public, private and non-profit...

Thesis Dissertations

Incomes and Asset Poverty Dynamics and Child Health among Pastoralists in Northern Kenya by Samuel Mburu - 7/9/16 Gender Differences in...

Briefs, Case Studies & Summaries

Feasibility of establishing a market information system in the Horn of Africa: Insights from northern Kenya by Anne Gesare, Philemon...

IBLI Game

As part of IBLI’s blended learning strategies to capacitate Village Insurance Promoters (VIPs) through interactive and incentive based...

IBLI training for sales agents

As part of IBLI’s blended learning strategies to capacitate IBLI sales agent, Village Insurance Promoters (VIPs) and Managers of MFIs...

eLearning course - explaining IBLI to extension workers (Ethiopia)

A critical component of ILRI’s Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) program is creating and strengthening effective and informed demand...

IBLI eLearning course for village insurance promoters (VIPs) in Borana zone of Ethiopia

Aiming to capacitate stakeholders across the chain of introducing and catalysing informed demand of the IBLI Product, ILRI’s IBLI team...

IBLI Pictorial Manual

Pastoral areas where the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) operational are characterized by very limited level of financial...

Bringing innovation to the pastoral areas of southern Ethiopia

This film highlights the experiences of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) policyholders in Borana zone of southern Ethiopia and why...

Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) index calculator app for Ethiopia

This is the Ethiopian version of the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Percentile Calculator. The IBLI Percentile Calculator is a...

SCBF - Improving Service Delivery

The project aims to contribute to the ongoing efforts of finding solutions to effective and efficient product delivery. Aiming to work...

Implementation Support

Cultivating a strong relationship with key partners and working hand-in-hand along with them, has been critical to the scale and adoption...

IBLI-BORESHA Project in Mandera

World Vision Kenya, through the BORESHA (Building Opportunities for Resilience in the Horn of Africa) project, seeks to promote economic...

Feasibility of index-insurance for livestock in Somalia

We aim at understanding the technical, operational, financial and socio-economic challenges that the introduction in Somalia of an asset...

EOPAM - A new drought index-insurance model for African pastoral regions - phase 2

We aim at supporting African Risk Capacity developing and implementing new models for drought index-insurance targeting the extensive...

2017 - Insurance Innovation of the Year

ILRI’s Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) project and Takaful Insurance of Africa (TIA) were bestowed the ‘2017 Insurance Innovation...

2017 - First Largest Livestock Insurance Payout made to Ethiopian and Kenyan Pastoralists

After IBLI was launched in 2010 and 2012 respectively in Kenya and Ethiopia, private insurance companies made the largest microinsurance...

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