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Implementing Weather Index Insurance Programs Training Presentations from Mombassa, Kenya
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These are the training presentations presented in Mombassa, Kenya by the World Bank's Agriculture Risk Management Team on implementing weather index insurance programs. Designing Index Based Weather Risk Management Programs” is a technical training course that has been developed to provide insurance companies and other institutions interested in working on index based weather insurance the technical skills necessary to design, price, and implement such products. The course agenda will cover the following modules:
1. Weather Insurance Products
2. Market for Weather Risk
3. Selecting Weather Data
4. Indexing Weather Risk
5. Quantifying Weather Risk
6. Insurance Contract Design
7. Pricing the Insurance Premium
8. Developing an Insurance Program
9. Weather Index Insurance Educational Tool
This course is primarily aimed towards insurance companies and other organizations interested in implementing agricultural insurance programs.
Type of Risk:
Production related-risks
Type of Risk management option:
Risk Transfer
Organization:
World Bank
Publication Date:
2011
Language:
English
Region:
Africa
Country:
Kenya