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Women’s Micro Bank

Key Insurance Products

Simple, affordable micro-insurance plans engineered to shield your market business, your agriculture yields, and your family’s healthcare from unexpected financial emergencies.

Women’s Micro Bank Limited (popularly known as Mama Bank) in Papua New Guinea offers specialized microinsurance products designed to protect low-income women, market vendors, and climate-vulnerable agricultural workers from economic shocks. Acting as a risk aggregator, the bank partners with major international development agencies and local insurers to deliver affordable, high-utility financial safety nets.

Climate Risk / Parametric Insurance

Purpose

Protects small agriculturalists, fishers, and MSMEs from natural disasters.

Coverage

Shields livelihoods from shocks like earthquakes, floods, droughts, and cyclones.

Mechanism

Payouts trigger automatically based on predefined data parameters (like earthquake magnitude or rainfall levels). This model eliminates lengthy manual claims assessments and ensures fast cash delivery.

Partners

Developed in collaboration with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), UNDP, and Pacific Reinsurance.

Benefits for Grassroots Customers

Low Premium Hurdles

Premium structures match the uneven cash flows of informal market workers.

Rapid Disbursements

Parametric triggers bypass formal paperwork to get recovery funds into hands within days of a disaster.

Integrated Banking

Policies attach directly to standard Mama Bank savings or loan accounts for easy tracking.