INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT (ICCCAD)

Tag: Insurance

  • Index-Insurance: Should Policy Makers target Financial Inclusion as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Bangladesh’s rural Poor?

    The residents of Khulna and Barisal Divisions, in Southern Bangladesh, are some of the most resilient in the world. Cyclones, storm surges, salinization, rising sea level, flood and erosion threaten livelihoods, health and the broader development agenda of the region. NGOs here aim to provide knowledge, skills and opportunities to people living with climate change…

  • Index-based Insurance Workshop

    Since this summer ICCCAD partnered with WorldFish  to identify and facilitate the diffusion of knowledge and best practices on index insurance in Bangladesh. Index insurance is a means of risk transfer that allows weather related risks to be insured. Weather index insurance is based on a pre-defined weather event which when triggered ensures automatic payout to…