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Are clients benefiting from microinsurance? How do we measure those benefits? How do we improve the value proposition for the clients? Microinsurance Paper #12 contributes to this discussion by focusing on improving client value rather than proving it. It presents results from the analysis of 15 microinsurance schemes in Kenya, India and the Philippines using the ILO's client value assessment tool called PACE (Product, Access, Cost and Experience). The PACE tool looks at the added value for clients from insurance products by comparing them to each other and to alternative means of offering protection from similar risks. The results show that there is a place for microinsurance to add value on the top of informal risk-sharing practices and existing social security schemes to protect low-income populations against life and health risks. The paper presents also a menu of interventions that can further improve client value from microinsurance. 

Este documento presenta la evaluación realizada a un programa del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para la involucración de Micro Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas en la atención de los consumidores de la base de la pirámide. La evaluación desarrolla los antecendentes del programa, los objetivos, la metodología usada, los resultados, el impacto, la replicabilidad, sostenibilidad, entre otros aspectos.

This report reviews the Grameen Koota financial services and Hippocampus Learning Centres (HLC) partnership which provides fee-based quality education combined with an enjoyable experience of learning for children living in rural areas of Karnataka, India. It outlines the programme design, financial implications, challenges and pilot findings from 18 villages.

This document represents a contribution made by the Tripartite Committee comprising the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to the fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas Initiative, in Santo Domingo, on 5 October 2011. The report sets out lessons learned and success stories, both in the region and elsewhere, concerning the priority area of promoting the development of micro-, small, and medium-sized enterprises (SME). It includes the fields of productive linkages for SME, preparing a modern labour force, trade facilitation, technological modernization, environmental governance and cooperation and improving policies.

This in-depth case study profiles five investees of the Gatsby-supported private equity fund African Agricultural Capital. It seeks to evaluate the direct impact of the investments on the investee companies and their employees, suppliers and customers.

Este documento presenta una guía para el desarrollo de cadenas de valor inclusivas que aporten a la construcción de un trabajo decente. Para esto desarrolla cómo seleccionar sectores, cómo preparar una iniciativa, mapear la cadena de valor, investigar la cadena y cómo implementar, monitorear y evaluar dicha iniciativa.

This case study analyses the impact of internet banking on the performance of micro and small enterprises in Costa Rica in terms of productivity, increase in sales and cost reduction. In this context the user behaviour of SMEs and their obstacles for the use of the internet for sales and purchasing is also observed.

This is the report of the Impact Investor Assessment conducted as a part of the ADB regional research and development technical assistance project: Developing a Regional Social Investment Exchange Initiative.

The report adopts the 'poverty footprint' methodology created by Oxfam which looks across value chains to provide a comprehensive understanding of how companies are impacting sustainable livelihoods, health and well-being, diversity and gender, empowerment, and security and stability, and all key dimensions of poverty. It details the positive impacts that Coca Cola and SABMiller are having in Zambia and El Salvador which includes job creation, the development of entrepreneurial skills and technical training.

This report presents case studies on business interventions in agriculture, health care and waste management. It analyses and identifies lessons on how to evaluate corporate engagement programmes focusing on improving effectiveness and integrating business performance and development impact better.