1. Publication

   Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Capacity Building Guide

   26 October 2009

   A training tool for improving the skills of staff in Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) support institutions and projects, enabling them to provide more effective services.

2. Publication

   Value Chain Development for Decent Work A guide for development practitioners, government and private sector initiatives

   26 October 2009

   The guide provides a systemic perspective, addressing not only value chain issues in the narrow sense but also important framework conditions, such as the relevance of the duration and cost of customs clearance, tariffs etc. Likewise, it addresses all relevant aspects that donors and other value chain facilitators need to take into account, including the need for institutional reform and its underlying incentive systems; issues of sustainability; the need to upscale project experiences; gender issues; etc.

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   Publication

   Briefing Note #1: The landscape of microinsurance in Africa

   01 October 2009

   Microinsurance is growing and expanding throughout Africa. Led by the ILO's Microinsurance Innovation Facility and the MicroInsurance Centre, Briefing Note #1 identified over fourteen million low-income people in Africa who were covered by microinsurance at the end of 2008. The outreach almost doubled over the last 4 years. Even with such growth, there are clearly significant gaps. Substantial parts of the continent remain almost barren of microinsurance. Health, agriculture and property covers, all significantly in need by the low-income market, are evident as a mere fraction of life insurance coverage. This study provides a detailed picture of microinsurance in Africa and discusses challenges in the years to come in order to facilitate broader, high-quality expansion.

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   Publication

   Briefing Note #2: Microinsurance that works for women: Making microinsurance programs gender-sensitive

   01 October 2009

   Led by the Women's World Banking and the Zurich Insurance Company, Briefing Note #2 is intended to generate discussion of a gendered approach to microinsurance. While insurance companies are beginning to design and deliver a variety of products to the poor, the paper focuses primarily on health and life insurance because these two risks typically are reported to exert significant financial pressure on poor women. The authors explore how health and life microinsurance could be designed to more effectively respond to women's needs, and offer practical advice to insurance companies for delivering such schemes. They conclude with a call to action for insurance companies, delivery channels, researchers and donors to make insurance more gender-sensitive, which will serve the dual mission of poverty alleviation and profitability.

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   Publication

   Microinsurance that works for women : making microinsurance programs gender-sensitive

   01 October 2009

   Microinsurance Innovation Facility - Briefing Note 2

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   Publication

   Working Paper No. 16 - Bearing the brunt of a liberalized economy : a performance review of the cooperative movement in Zambia

   01 September 2009

   CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 16 - Series on the status of cooperative development in Africa

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   Publication

   Working Paper No. 10 - Surviving liberalization : the cooperative movement in Kenya

   01 September 2009

   CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 10 - Series on the status of cooperative development in Africa

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   Publication

   Working Paper No. 7 - Cooperatives in Africa : the age of reconstruction : synthesis of a survey in nine African countries

   01 September 2009

   CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 7 - Series on the status of cooperative development in Africa

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   Publication

   Working Paper No. 6 - Fair trade - fair futures : the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union scholarship programme for orphan and vulnerable children

   01 September 2009

   CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 6 - with ILO/AIDS, Series on HIV/AIDS impact mitigation in the world of work – responses from the social economy

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    Publication

    Working Paper No. 5 - Social economy approaches to mainstreaming HIV/AIDS : the case of the Kasojetua youth group

    01 September 2009

    CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 5 - with ILO/AIDS, Series on HIV/AIDS impact mitigation in the world of work – responses from the social economy