Resources on social finance

  1. Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

    CLIMBS: Extending mutual protection and building resilience in the Philippines

    26 February 2019

    “Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, ILO interviewed Mr Noel Raboy, President and CEO in CLIMBS, a composite insurance cooperative owned by 4,000 member cooperatives from around the Philippines.

  2. Publication

    Microinsurance Innovation Facility: Catalyzing protection of the working poor: Public-Private Partnership

    06 October 2015

    The ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility was launched in 2008. Generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Z Zurich Foundation, and Munich Re has made it possible to dramatically expand the outreach of insurance services to low-income households and enterprises, strengthen insurance providers and ensure that better risk management practices are more widely available.

  3. Publication

    Microinsurance Innovation Facility: Catalyzing protection of the working poor: Public-Private Partnership

    06 October 2015

    The ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility was launched in 2008. Generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Z Zurich Foundation, and Munich Re has made it possible to dramatically expand the outreach of insurance services to low-income households and enterprises, strengthen insurance providers and ensure that better risk management practices are more widely available.

  4. Instructional material

    Health inclusive insurance: getting started

    01 December 2014

    Health insurance mitigates financial risk due to illness. It contains specific features which distinguish it from other insurance product lines, and which add complexity. This training will provide inclusive insurance practitioners (insurers and distribution partners) with knowledge and insight about factors applicable to the process of developing and launching simple health inclusive insurance (HMI) programs and selecting and working with partners to deliver those HMI products.

  5. Microinsurance

    New ILO Report highlights growing value and viability of microinsurance

    14 March 2014

  6. Microinsurance

    The win-win potential of microinsurance for migrants

    29 October 2012

    International migrants send home over US$ 400 billion a year, yet they and their families often lack basic social protection. That is where microinsurance can step in.

  7. Instructional material

    Health microinsurance schemes: Feasibility study guide

    01 January 2005

    This tool provides a guide to carry out a feasibility study. It includes definitions, practical examples, lists of questions, sample data-collection materials, detailed methods of calculation, and examples of drafted documents.