Insurance Development Forum
Insurance Development Forum
Insurance Development Forum

Publications

Expertise and calls to action as public goods

Knowledge Resources

Capacity development in insurance and risk management is a major need expressed by Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs). This section provides access to different publications, articles and tools that enable learning.

Publications

The IDF produces its own and joint publications as public goods. It also shares selected members’ and partners’ publications. To facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity development. And to provide recommendations for action that can facilitate the use of insurance capabilities and solutions to enable resilience. To help build future-ready nations.

Member Publication: Underutilized trillions – Mobilizing insurer capital and underwriter capacity for development finance

IFF Brief: How can governments, regulators, MDBs and DFIs scale private capital and underwriter capacity mobilisation for EMDEs to support development financing needs? In a brief published earlier this year, IDF member @Institute of International Finance (IIF) highlights the role that insurer capital and expertise can play to complement public sector flows to Emerging Markets and Development Economies (EMDEs).
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From Exposure to Protection: The Case for Parametric Insurance Revenue Cover for Hydro-Dependent Utilities in Eastern and Southern Africa

When drought cuts hydropower generation, who pays the price - and how can we protect them before the next shock?
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GRMA: Evaluating a Model’s Appropriateness for Climate & Disaster Risk Finance Decision Making

Governments increasingly rely on climate and disaster risk models to inform public spending, design insurance solutions and prepare for future shocks - but inappropriate risk estimates can leave public finances exposed and vulnerable communities without adequate support. Today, the Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) launches “Evaluating a Model’s Appropriateness for Climate & Disaster Risk Finance Decision Making” - a practical guide to help governments assess whether a model is suitable for the decisions they need to make.
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IDF Summit 2026 Insights Report

A most valuable element of the 2026 Insurance Development Forum (IDF) Summit was hearing the voices from senior country government representatives invited by IDF public sector partners. This report recaps and explores some of the workshops and topics of discussion during that event.
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IDF 2025 Annual Review

IDF 2025 Annual Review

IDF today published its 2025 Annual Review. Marking 10 years of action to close global protection gaps, it issues a clear call to accelerate progress as climate shocks, fiscal pressure and systemic risk intensify worldwide.
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Increasing Insurability to Close Protection Gaps

Increasing Insurability to Close Protection Gaps

This paper outlines the challenges and sets out a comprehensive agenda to address one of the world’s most urgent challenges: the widening divide between insured and uninsured losses from natural catastrophes, or the protection gap
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From Risk to Resilience

From Risk to Resilience: How Insurance Can Mobilise Disaster Finance and Climate Investment in Vulnerable Economies

This paper by the IDF-Bridgetown Initiative Partnership presents recommendations for action by Governments, MDBs, insurers and regulators to help close the disaster protection gap, mobilise capital, and shift development finance from reactive to resilient.
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IDRIMA, the Integrated Disaster Risk Management Alliance

Combining Expertise and Financing Solutions from Public Development Banks and Insurers to respond to Climate Risk

A call to action for Public Development Banks (PDBs) and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), national governments, and supranational agencies to more systematically integrate considerations of climate risks and risk reduction across their operations.
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RMSG Update 2025

Risk Modelling Steering Group Strategy – 2025 Update

The Risk Modelling Steering Group (RMSG) is an expert working group of the Insurance Development Forum. It is international in nature and its 70+ participants are drawn from the insurance industry, vendor modelling organisations, IGOs, NGOs and the scientific research community.
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Inclusive Insurance in the Philippines: Country Diagnostic and Roadmap

Inclusive Insurance in the Philippines: Country Diagnostic and Roadmap

The report provides an outlook of the inclusive insurance market in the Philippines, based on the social and economic outlook of the country and its risk profile, the current range of available products, and existing gaps in risk management solutions for vulnerable populations.
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