Our purpose

The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) is a public-private partnership dedicated to optimising and extending the use of insurance and risk management capabilities to build greater resilience and protection for vulnerable countries.

By aligning industry expertise with public policy and development priorities, the IDF supports nations to better understand, reduce and finance risk – helping them recover faster, unlock investment and achieve sustainable growth.

We take action together. To build a foundation for the future. To help build future-ready nations.

Highlights from IDF

Press Release

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23 February 2026

Ecuador contracts first parametric insurance for climate-vulnerable farmers, with Germany, UNDP, ISF and IDF support.

Press Release

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19 February 2026

Insurance Development Forum publishes 10-Year Anniversary 2025 Annual Review: A Decade of Action and a Call to Scale.

Interview

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21 January 2026

Yussel De Kraa, Swiss Re, and Franziska Wasserhess, Allianz, discuss their work on the groundbreaking Accra Urban Flooding Risk Transfer Project.

Our Programmes

IDF establishes public-private partnership programmes to drive concrete projects in Emerging and Developing Economies. To help build future-ready nations.

Projects

The IDF has engagements across 32 countries, delivering 45 projects through its Working Groups and Task Forces.

Projects span climate and disaster risk modelling, disaster risk reduction, sovereign and humanitarian insurance solutions, inclusive insurance, and infrastructure resilience.

The IDF brings together its Change Agents – private sector members with Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), development organisations, humanitarians, and other partners, to work with governments in nations across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific, to build long-term resilience. To help build future-ready nations.

Africa

Egypt
Ethiopia
Ghana
Madagascar
Malawi
Mozambique
Nigeria
Rwanda
Senegal
Somalia
Tanzania
The Gambia

Asia

Bangladesh
Cambodia
Jordan
Nepal
Pakistan
Philippines
Syria
Thailand
Uzbekistan
Vietnam

Latin America

Argentina
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Peru
Mexico

Oceania

Figi
Pic Region
Tonga

The Caribbean

Dominican Republic

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