Nelson Kuria, CEO of CIC Insurance, Kenya, is Chair of the ICMIF Development Committee, and during the ICMIF Conference last year he took the opportunity to share an update with delegates on the activities of the Development Function within ICMIF and appealed for the help of members in improving access to insurance for those who currently have no access to risk protection. Nelson began by telling delegates that in being at the ICMIF Conference “I feel like I have been born again, renewed and ...

By David Njagi NAIROBI, Aug 9 (IPS) - Mourid Abdi Dolal and Wilson Rotich are both small-scale farmers who grow staple crops. But while one sells his produce at the local village market, the other farms to feed the growing number of refugees in Kenya. Rotich may have found purpose in a World Food Programme (WFP) led enterprise that links small-scale farmers to markets through the Purchase for Progress (P4P) project.