Developing and piloting index based livestock insurance to reduce poverty and vulnerability (IBLI)

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    Escaping poverty traps and unlocking prosperity in the face of climate risk: Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance
    (Book, 2024-06-20) Jensen, Nathaniel D.; Fava, Francesco P.; Mude, Andrew G.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Wandera-Gache, Brenda; Vrieling, Anton; Taye, Masresha; Takahashi, Kazushi; Lung, Felix; Ikegami, Munenobu; Ericksen, Polly J.; Chelanga, Philemon; Chantarat, Sommarat; Carter, Michael; Bashir, Hassan; Banerjee, Rupsha R.
    This Element outlines the origins and evolution of an international award-winning development intervention, index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), which scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management products and policies across Africa. General insights are provided on i) the economics of poverty, risk management, and drylands development; ii) the evolving use of modern remote sensing and data science tools in development; iii) the science of scaling; and iv) the value and challenges of integrating research with operational implementation to tackle development and humanitarian challenges in some of the world's poorest regions.
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    Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Marsabit Household Survey
    (Dataset, 2023-04-30) Alulu, Vincent; Jensen, Nathaniel D.; Ikegami, Munenobu
    These data contain seven rounds of a longitudinal, socio-economic survey of 924 pastoral households from Marsabit County Kenya, collected between 2010 and 2020. Data collection was made possible, in part, by support provided by the generous funding of the UK Department for International Development, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Agriculture and Rural Development Sector of the European Union through DfID accountable grant agreement No: 202619-101, the UK Department for International Development through FSD Trust Grant SWD/Weather/43/2009, the United States Agency for International Development grant No: EDH-A-00-06-0003-00, the World Bank’s Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Grant No: 7156906, the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Programs on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and Dryland Systems, and the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the CGIAR.
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    Eliciting pastoralist experience for a livestock asset protection program in arid and semi-arid lands
    (Brief, 2022-07-15) Banerjee, Rupsha R.; Johnson, Leigh; Mude, Andrew G.
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    Exploring pastoralists’ demand for information and channels for its effective delivery
    (Report, 2018-03-30) Banerjee, Rupsha R.; Fava, Francesco P.; Taye, Masresha; Mude, Andrew G.
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    Index Based Livestock Insurance scalability study: A feasibility study in Afar and Somali regions of Ethiopia
    (Report, 2017-12-30) International Livestock Research Institute
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    KAZNET: An open-source, micro-tasking platform for remote locations
    (Journal Article, 2022-03-25) Chelanga, Philemon; Fava, Francesco P.; Alulu, Vincent; Banerjee, Rupsha R.; Naibei, Oscar; Taye, Masresha; Berg, M.; Galgallo, Diba; Gobu, Wako; Lepariyo, Watson; Muendo, K.; Jensen, Nathaniel D.
    Field surveys are the workhorse of social and environmental research, but conventional collection through monitors or enumerators are cost prohibitive in many remote or otherwise difficult settings, which can lead to a poor understanding of those environments and an underrepresentation of the people living in them. In such cases, micro-tasking can offer a promising alternative. By activating in-situ data collectors, micro-tasking avoids many of the large expenses related to conventional field survey processes. In addition to relaxing resource constraints, crowd-sourcing can be flexible and employ data quality protocols unheard-of for conventional methods. This study assesses the potential of using micro-tasking to monitor socioeconomic and environmental indicators in remote settings using a new platform called KAZNET. KAZNET leverages the network of people with smartphones, which are becoming ubiquitous even in the remote rural settings, to execute both long-term and short-term data collection activities, with flexibility to adjust or add tasks in real-time. It also allows for multiple projects, requiring different data types, to be rolled out in the same platform simultaneously. For the data-collector, KAZNET is effectively a wrapper for the commonly used and open source, Open Data Kit (ODK) software, which specializes in offline data collection. A web interface allows administrators to calibrate, deploy, and validate tasks performed by contributors. KAZNET has been used in several projects to collect data in remote pastoral regions of East Africa since its inception in 2017. KAZNET has shown to be effective for collecting high frequency and repeated measures from markets, households and rangelands in remote regions at relatively low cost compared to traditional survey methods. While the successes of micro-tasking are promising, there are clear trade-offs and complementarities between micro-tasking and standard surveys methods, which researchers and practitioners need to consider when implementing either approach.
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    IBLI Premium Insurance Calculator
    (Software, 2021) International Livestock Research Institute
    Index Based Livestock Insurance calculator helps you to calculate how much you need to pay and how much subsidy is provided to you based on the number of cattle you have
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    A regional approach to drought index-insurance in Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) countries: Volume 1 Main report - Operational and technical feasibility assessment
    (Report, 2021-07-12) Lung, Felix; Stutley, Charles; Kahiu, Njoki; Vrieling, Anton; Zewdie, Yihenew; Fava, Francesco P.
    This study takes stock of over 10-years of experience and increasing coverage of index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) programs to protect pastoralists from drought shocks in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region. The study reviews the status of national-level drought/climate risk financing solutions in the region and discusses the operational and technical feasibility of a regional IBLI program, summarizing critical lesson learned and providing a set of recommendations and options for regional implementation. The report has been prepared by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) under the Drought Index-insurance for Resilience in the Sahel and Horn of Africa (DIRISHA) project supported by the UK Aid Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) program. DIRISHA, the Swahili word for ‘window’, had the ambitious goal of advancing an evidence case to scale-up climate risk financing innovations that that seek to protect vulnerable dryland populations in the IGAD region and beyond in the face of climate shocks.
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    IBLI M-learning app
    (Software, 2020-12-01) Tsegaye, Tariku; Taye, Masresha; Gobu, Wako; Galgallo, Diba; Banerjee, Rupsha R.
    Learning IBLI is an interactive multilingual (currently supporting Afan Orommo and Swahili) android application that provides assessment and video tutorial on Index Based Livestock Insurance. It contains Pre, Post and Post-Post assessment on IBLI. Between Pre and Post assessment, video tutorial module containing 7 courses with in-video multiple choice continuous assessment quizzes.
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    Learning IBLI: M-learning application user guide
    (Manual, 2020-12-01) Tsegaye, Tariku; Taye, Masresha; Gobu, Wako; Galgallo, Diba; Banerjee, Rupsha R.
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    Understanding pastoralists’ dynamic insurance uptake decisions: Evidence from four-year panel data in Ethiopia
    (Journal Article, 2020-08) Takahashi, K.; Noritomo, Y.; Ikegami, Munenobu; Jensen, Nathaniel D.
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    Conspicuous monitoring and remote work
    (Journal Article, 2020-08) Jensen, Nathaniel D.; Lyons, E.; Chebelyon, E.; Bras, R. Le; Gomes, C.
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    Access to markets, weather risk, and livestock production decisions: Evidence from Ethiopia
    (Journal Article, 2020-07) Abay, Kibrom A.; Jensen, Nathaniel D.
    Despite several studies showing the effect of access to markets and weather conditions on crop production, we know quite little on whether and how livestock production systems respond to variation in weather risk and access to markets. In this paper, we study whether and how livestock production responds to (access to) markets and varying weather risk. We also explore whether such responses vary across livelihood zones and livestock production systems. We study these research questions using households’ livestock production, ownership, and marketing decisions of households in Ethiopia. We find that households living close to markets are more likely to engage in market‐oriented livestock production and use modern livestock inputs. We also find that households exposed to more unpredictable weather are less likely to engage in livestock production for markets, rather they are more likely to engage in livestock production for precautionary savings and insurance. Furthermore, greater rainfall uncertainty influences livestock portfolio allocation toward those which can be easily liquidated while also discouraging investment in modern livestock inputs. However, these responses and patterns vary across livelihood zones and production systems; most of these stylized responses and impacts are more pronounced and significant in the arid and semi‐arid lands of Ethiopia, where livestock herding remains a dominant source of livelihood. Those households relying only on livestock production seem more sensitive and responsive to weather risk and weather shocks. The heterogeneity in responses and impacts of weather risk among farming systems and livelihoods highlights the need for more tailored livestock sector policies and interventions.
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    Gender differences in demand for index-based livestock insurance
    (Report, 2015-04) Bageant, Elizabeth R.; Barrett, Christopher B.
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    Are there gender differences in demand for Index-Based Livestock Insurance?
    (Journal Article, 2017-06-03) Bageant, Elizabeth R.; Barrett, Christopher B.
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    Insuring Well‐Being? Buyer's remorse and peace of mind effects from insurance
    (Journal Article, 2019-04) Tafere, Kibrom; Barrett, Christopher B.; Lentz, Erin C.
    We estimate the causal effects of index insurance coverage on subjective well‐being among livestock herders in southern Ethiopia. By exploiting the randomized distribution of discount coupons and information treatments to instrument for the purchase of index‐based livestock insurance, and three rounds of panel data, we separately identify ex ante welfare gains from insurance that reduces risk exposure and ex post buyer's remorse effects that may arise after the resolution of uncertainty. We find that current insurance coverage generates subjective well‐being gains that are significantly higher than the buyer's remorse effect of an insurance policy that lapsed without paying out. Given the positive correlation in insurance purchase propensity over time, failure to control for potential buyer's remorse effects can bias downward estimates of welfare gains from current insurance coverage.
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    Direct and indirect impact of index-based livestock insurance in southern Ethiopia
    (Journal Article, 2019-07-01) Matsuda, Ayako; Takahashi, Kazushi; Ikegami, Munenobu