African Risk Capacity news

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), a parametric sovereign disaster risk insurer for African nations, has begun a pilot with the help of San Francisco based Metabiota to roll-out parametric insurance cover against disease outbreaks and epidemics.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), an organisation providing parametric sovereign disaster risk insurance and resilience building support to African nations, has entered into a partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) aiming to increase uptake and coverage of climate risk insurance in the region.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), the provider of parametric sovereign disaster risk insurance and other support to African nations, has launched a new insurance product designed to cover disease outbreaks and epidemics.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are to collaborate to enhance Member states’ understanding of the need for and value of disaster insurance and ultimately to help expand and embed risk transfer within countries policy and development objectives.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), Africa’s sovereign parametric catastrophe insurance pool, is to make a US$8 million payout to Malawi after its 2015/16 agricultural season parametric drought insurance policy was triggered by ARC’s model.

The insurance mutual and financial affiliate of the African Risk Capacity (ARC), the African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Ltd (ARC Ltd), has announced that former Director of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Dolika Banda, will replace Dr. Simon Young as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the firm.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), Africa’s first sovereign catastrophe insurance pool, has ambitions to grow the size of the risk pool to $1.5 billion by 2020, as it increases the number of countries covered and expands products beyond drought, to include flood and cyclone risk.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), Africa’s first sovereign catastrophe insurance pool, is set to receive $150 million in support pledged by countries attending the Paris COP21 climate change talks over the last fortnight.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) aims to double the coverage it provides to as much as $1.5 billion by 2020, by opening up its parametric insurance products to international organisations, such as United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGO’s).

The Start Network, an international network of non-governmental humanitarian organisations, has committed to developing prototype use-cases for parametric insurance and catastrophe bonds as solutions to provide funding in response to humanitarian crises.