Weather Index Insurance
Bangladesh
Developed by IWMI, the Weather Index Insurance is a mobile and web based digital solution which disseminates weather patterns to smart phones of Bangladeshi farmers so they can plan their agricultural activities. IWMI has installed two measurements at a central location in the Dunumadalawa village, Ellawewa GND, to measure and forecast rainfall and temperature. The agro-economic advisories prepared in collaboration with the Department of Agrarian Development are also sent to the Farmers mobile phone twice a week. The Weather Index Insurance solution is very specific to the area, the season, crop and risk insured.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Livestock management & animal health, Farm management services
Delivery type (format)
Mobile app
Web based platform
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agribusiness / private company
Name of supplier/developer
Syngenta Foundation
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
It has reached 16 districts of northern, southern, and eastern Bangladesh. Cumulatively since 2018, 421,767 smallholders had bought 574,527 policies through the four distribution models. The rate of sale accelerated rapidly. In the first year, 2018, farmers bought 171 policies. By 2022, this had risen to more than 359,000. Source: Developer website
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Many Bangladesh smallholders get three crops per year. By late 2022, the insurance had run for 15 cultivation seasons. The total crop value insured in this period was US$ 14,406,758. Sadharan Bima and GDIC collected premiums worth $770,235 and paid out $771,986 to 143,705 farmers. Source: Developer website
Digital Solution Geographic scope
Dunumadalawa, Ellawewa GND
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes