(este blog también está disponible en español) Colombians living in rural areas are vulnerable to a range of risks and, as the climate becomes more unpredictable, climate risks in particular are increasing. In the fifty years up to 2018, an average of almost 900 lives have been lost a year…

Insurance products in Mexico are well-designed but customer care and claims experiences need work, according to participants in a recent workshop organized by the ILO Impact Insurance Facility and the Mexican insurance association, AMIS. Workshop participants learnt to use the ILO’s PACE tool to analyse the value of inclusive insurance…

Lessons from a fintech in Mexico The fintech MeXCo Soluciones was founded to address two challenges in Mexico. Firstly, the lack of inclusion in fintech, where the majority of products are designed with young, urban men in mind. While financial systems are becoming more and more digital, this shift is…

Kifiya, a digital financial services platform in Ethiopia, offers a crop insurance product for low-income farmers in partnership with the government’s Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), the Public Finance Enterprise Agency (PFEA), several Ethiopian insurers, and the University of Twente. …

The SEEP Network’s brilliant (all women💪🏼) webinar yesterday on women’s digital financial inclusion highlighted the simple requirements to make digital financial services work for women. Employ women agents. Speak to women in their language. Serve them on their doorstep. Better still, none of these has a negative effect on men’s…

An edited version of this blog has been featured on the RSA blog. The RSA has for some time been promoting a Universal Basic Income as a way to counter the ill effects of unstable work, a punitive benefit system and weak productivity growth. Recently, as a partial measure in…

More interviews: Make an event of it This time we went out to interview people in Lima’s Parque de la Exposición, in the centre of the city, popular with residents, and situated just under the shadow of one of its most important museums, the MALI. Nonetheless, the vast majority of…

As we plan our first project at Museo Wak’a we are using design thinking tools. Essentially, this means we are going out and interviewing a lot of people about their opinions about and experiences of heritage and museums. This week I went to a nearby park to test the questions…

For me, being in a museum or gallery feels just how I imagine a church enthusiast must do in the midst of Sunday service. The British Museum is my cathedral. Ever since first staring in equal disgust and delight at the Egyptian mummies as a child, each visit leaves me…