Engagement and Advocacy
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IDF engages with a broad range of bodies and institutions to enable and support its efforts. To share knowledge about insurance capabilities and solutions, and foster ownership of our work among members and partners. We report on our work, organise convenings, issue publications and speak at conferences.
We advocate for extending use of insurance as a pre-arranged disaster risk finance tool to drive resilience in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs). To amplify the role of insurance for development, social protection, growth, and macroeconomic stability. Through awareness raising and high-level policy influence.
We contribute to thought leadership publications and global policy dialogue with major international standard-setting and political bodies, international organisations, and economic forums. Representing insurance as a tool for resilience at convenings of high-level political bodies. We work to help build future-ready nations
Insurance Development Forum at COP
IDF has attended COP in Belém and the important “Pre-COP” in São Paulo, Brazil, featuring finance-focused conferences attended by global leaders, which helped shape COP discussions. Under the Brazilian COP30 Presidency, insurance was formally recognised as a fundamental enabler of climate action.
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It has launched important initiatives during COP conferences. IDF representatives help drive calls to action and join panels to share knowledge and influence policy that helps close protection gaps.
It engages governments, multilateral institutions, the private sector, and civil society to demonstrate how its work supports the implementation and scaling of risk analytics, risk reduction, and risk financing solutions in EMDEs. To help build future-ready nations.
In this effort it collaborates with members and partners such as BMZ, UNDP, the UK’s Centre for Disaster Protection, the Risk Informed Early Action Partnership (REAP), among others.
G20
IDF contributes to globally relevant economic and development work and convenings to represent the relevance of insurance as an important pre-arranged disaster risk financing tool to address climate disaster risk and build resilience.
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The topic of addressing natural catastrophe protection gaps was identified as a priority under the South African G20 Presidency in 2025. As part of this effort, the IDF was invited to contribute to papers and participate in different G20 meetings, offering perspectives from the private sector.
The G20 Disaster Risk Reduction Ministerial Declaration reinforces prearranged financing as a central pillar of effective, equitable, and timely disaster response.
The Final G20 Leaders Communique also reflected similar focus, emphasising the increasing frequency, intensity, and geographic spread of climate-related disasters, and underscoring the need for stronger disaster preparedness and response.
IDF-Bridgetown Initiative Strategic Partnership
The IDF-Bridgetown Partnership seeks to drive deeper integration of insurance into climate, development and resilience finance frameworks and to elevate insurance as a central enabler in the global response to climate and other natural disaster risks. With a view to leveraging the full capabilities and functions of the insurance industry in enhancing resilience for vulnerable nations.
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In a first joint publication, the IDF-Bridgetown Initiative partnership proposes concerted action through four leverage points to scale resilience impact, for action by EMDE Governments, MDBs, insurers and regulators.
The public-private partnership aims to drive engagement and action to see the recommendations from the paper implemented.