Inclusive & embedded protection

Build protection around women’s health, income and livelihoods.

Work with AVYA to design and deliver technology-backed protection for women — from cancer, pregnancy and menopause to income disruption, asset loss and climate shocks. Embedded insurance is one delivery model. Financial resilience is the outcome.

  • Women-centric by design
  • Technology-backed delivery
  • Backed by IIMA Ventures
The inclusion gap

Access to finance should not be undone by one financial shock.

Credit, savings, employment, enterprise and productive assets help women build income and independence. A health event, caregiving responsibility, interruption to work, loss of an asset or climate shock can consume savings, increase debt and interrupt the livelihood that finance was meant to strengthen.

The risks are connected

Health, income, livelihoods and climate do not arrive as separate portfolios.

Cancer & serious illness

Look beyond hospital treatment to screening, diagnostics, travel, recovery, caregiving and time away from work.

Pregnancy & maternal health

Bring consultations, delivery, complications, newborn care, income interruption and policy limits into one picture.

Peri-menopause & menopause

Examine changing health needs, out-of-pocket costs, work impact and both insurance and non-insurance support.

Income & livelihoods

Protect earnings, productive assets and commitments when illness, caregiving or disruption stops work.

Climate-linked shocks

Understand how heat, flood, rainfall variation and storms can affect health, assets, workdays, debt and recovery together.

Digital & business risks

Address fraud, cyber loss, liability, interruption and gaps between personal and business protection.

Who we build with

Work through institutions women already know and use.

MFIs, NBFCs & inclusive finance

Add understandable, consent-led protection to financial journeys without designing only around the loan.

SHGs & livelihood networks

Design around members’ incomes, productive assets, household responsibilities and local climate exposure.

Healthtechs & care ecosystems

Build financial navigation around cancer, fertility, maternity, diagnostics, menopause and recovery.

NGOs, foundations & development partners

Translate programme insight into practical protection models, delivery journeys and measurable outcomes.

Employers & CSR programmes

Move beyond awareness or a generic group policy to health, income, caregiving and livelihood resilience.

Insurers & risk carriers

Configure existing products, or co-design contextual protection where a genuine market gap remains.

Programme architecture

From observed risk to protection that can work in practice.

Understand the exposure

Use Money at Risk, the Protection Score, partner insight and field evidence to identify priority losses.

Design the response

Decide what should be reduced, retained, supported through a programme or transferred through insurance.

Build the journey

Create an AVYA-led, co-branded or white-labelled experience for education, consent, enrolment and support.

Connect licensed help

Bring appropriately licensed professionals or entities into solicitation and placement where requested.

Strengthen claim readiness

Make evidence requirements, responsibilities and the claims-support pathway visible before enrolment.

Measure resilience

Track understanding, persistent gaps, assistance, claims experience and recovery — not premium volume alone.

Illustrative programme territories

Start with the women, the shock and the outcome.

Illustrative

Women’s cancer financial resilience

Connect care pathways, coverage interpretation, recovery costs, income interruption and claims assistance.

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Pregnancy & maternity protection

Clarify policy limits, likely out-of-pocket costs, complications, newborn needs and what must be planned outside insurance.

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Peri-menopause & menopause support

Connect care navigation with coverage, out-of-pocket costs, work impact and employer or financial-support options.

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Climate-resilient SHG livelihoods

Map health, workdays, assets, livestock, inventory and debt, then combine risk reduction and suitable risk transfer.

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MFI or NBFC borrower resilience

Design around events that interrupt income or repayment, and explain existing embedded cover, exclusions and gaps.

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Women entrepreneur continuity

Connect personal health and caregiving with cyber, liability, assets, employees and business continuity.

Focused pilots

One population. One risk context. One measurable outcome.

  • Listen to the women and the institutions already serving them.
  • Map the health, income, livelihood, asset, debt and climate exposure.
  • Identify the limits of existing benefits, informal responses and insurance.
  • Design the protection and service model with relevant partners and risk carriers.
  • Test the digital and human journey with a defined cohort.
  • Measure understanding, access, service, claims experience and recovery outcomes.
Inclusion credibility

Built where technology, protection and inclusion meet.

AVYA is backed by IIMA Ventures through the Bharat Inclusion Initiative, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.

Before you ask

Straight answers.

Is AVYA only an embedded-insurance technology provider?

No. AVYA can provide embedded journeys, but the work starts with understanding the risk and the intended outcome. Where the underlying insurance, financing or operating model still needs to be designed, Protector IQ can lead the consulting and innovation work.

Is AVYA only for women?

Women are AVYA’s primary design lens and the centre of its inclusion work. The same infrastructure can also support families, workforces, livelihoods and other underserved customer groups.

Does every programme need a new insurance product?

No. AVYA first examines existing benefits, products, risk-reduction measures and support systems. New product work is considered only when a genuine gap remains, and it requires an insurer or authorised risk carrier.

Can this work through an MFI, NBFC or SHG network?

Yes, subject to informed consent, suitable products, data safeguards and the relevant licensed operating model. The journey should be designed around the woman and her livelihood — not only the credit relationship.

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