Webinar presentation - Designing social protection insurance schemes to benefit rural women
Webinar presentation - Designing social protection insurance schemes to benefit rural women
Presentation of the webinar held on 14 December 2017, organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), which explored what is being done to increase financial protection for the poorest rural women, and how to design insurance schemes that address their gender-specific needs and priorities for support in times of crisis.
Drawing on real life case studies from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa the webinar addressed the following questions:
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What are current examples of bringing a women-oriented focus to insurance schemes across agriculture, health and social security sectors?
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How can gender-sensitive insurance schemes be best integrated into national social protection systems and/or programmes?
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What are the key opportunities, challenges and potential entry points for different insurance stakeholders to increase women’s access to affordable insurance through social protection?
Presenters:
Shree Kant Kumar – CEO of Vimo SEWA with the support of Tara Sinha
Mathieu Dubreuil – Micro-insurance Specialist, R4 Rural Resilience Initiative, WFP
Christina Dankmeyer – Advisor, Social Protection Sector Initiative, GIZ
Moderator:
Maja Gavrilovic – Social Protection Specialist, FAO
