Resources on social finance
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Publication
Social Finance Brief: Pacífico Seguros
15 September 2022
Pacífico Seguros is Peru’s largest insurer in terms of premiums collected and second largest in terms of people insured. In this Social Finance Brief, we explore "Protected Business", an insurance product designed by Pacífico to cover the main risks faced by SMEs in Peru: theft, fire, earthquakes and civil liability against third parties.
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Publication
Social Finance Brief: Insurance for MSMEs in Mexico
16 August 2022
The ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility has been collaborating with the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions to build inclusive insurance markets for excluded persons and for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. This brief identifies strategies to overcome barriers to insurance for MSMEs, based on the experiences of seven companies in Latin America.
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Publication
Social Finance Brief: MiCRO
30 May 2022
The Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organization (MiCRO) is a company that aims to close the protection gap through parametric insurance. Its innovative model uses state-of-the-art technology to detect and measure severe droughts, earthquakes and excessive rainfall in order to protect vulnerable populations. This brief explains how MiCRO reaches out to different target groups and creates value for them.
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Document
Financial inclusion for refugees, internally displaced people and host communities
18 June 2021
As the world is recording its highest levels of population displacement yet, the global refugee crisis creates great vulnerabilities for forcibly displaced populations, as well as for host communities.
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News
Global pool of multi-lingual trainers established to make finance work for refugees and host communities around the world
04 June 2021
The capacity development of trainers in “Making Finance Work for Refugees and Host communities” aims to develop a pool of trainers to be deployed around the world to teach and technically support financial services providers in expanding their services to refugees’ market segments, which will in turn enable refugees and host communities to access more suitable financial services.
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News
ILO COOP/SSE 100 Webinar V - SSE momentum: Finance for Inclusion and the Future of Work during Covid-19 pandemic
08 December 2020
The webinar focused on the key challenges related to the future of work, how they affect local communities, and what Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations (SSEOs) are doing toward addressing them. Two keynote speakers presented the main findings of recent research, while three discussants enriched the debate.
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Executive Summary
Youth & COVID-19: Impacts on jobs, education, rights and mental well-being
11 August 2020
Executive Summary of the survey report
