[box type="shadow" align="" class="" width=""]Assia Sidibe, ARC Head of Goverment Services for West and Central Africa, published a piece in the Guardian illustrating how risk pools and insurance programmes like ARC can save hundreds of thousands of lives, especially as international aid funding grows uncertain and unsustainable. The text is reproduced below.

For the second year in a row, the African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Ltd (ARC Ltd) won the CFI.co award for Most Innovative ESG Risk Protection Provider for Africa.

11 March 2017 - ARC is currently monitoring the ex Tropical Cyclone ENAWO whose wind speeds have dropped below 34 kts. A new update will be release if the storm's winds increase above the threshold or when it ends.

9 March 2017 - ARC is currently monitoring the ex Tropical Cyclone ENAWO whose wind speeds have dropped below 34 kts. A new update will be release if the storm's winds increase above the threshold or when it ends.

Click here to download the PDF version. ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire / JOHANNESBURG, South Africa / HAMILTON, Bermuda, 7 March 2017 The African Risk Capacity (ARC) has added a crucial partner to its portfolio by formally teaming up with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to strengthen mechanisms to manage weather-related risk on the continent.

[caption id="attachment_1109" align="alignleft" width="655"] Photo: REUTERS/Mike Hutchings[/caption] Written by Alex Whiting for Thomson Reuters Foundation, republished on Zilient, PreventionWeb, and