The Facility’s Fellowship Programme encourages professionals with substantial experience in the insurance industry to use their expertise to effectively provide insurance to low-income markets.

Through the 2-year Fellowship engagement, fellows will provide technical and project management support to an innovation project of a leading practitioner in Africa.

Fellows are placed with a host organization to support an innovation project. The Facility pre-selects the host and defines the innovation project together with the host. The project could range from the implementation for a new product, technology solution, public-private partnership or working with new distribution channels and will focus on one or more of the following themes:

• Developing insurance solutions that extend or supplement existing social protection schemes

• Developing insurance products that benefit small-scale farmers and improve financial institutions’ risk management abilities

• Bundling insurance with financial services or value-added services that improve consumers’ ability to manage risk better, but also increase their productivity capabilities

• Providing risk management solutions to MSMEs

Fellows will spend two full years at a host organization, while having opportunities to support other partners/hosts throughout their fellowship.

Check out Become a Fellow for more information.

For additional information about the Programme, contact Ms. Aida Lindmeier, through lindmeier@ilo.org.