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Microinsurance Conference Announcements

 

Making Microinsurance Work for Nigeria, Nigeria, 23 – 24 June 2009

The workshop will focus on practical topics on microinsurance product
development and service delivery

More information
<http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.11.88996/>
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.11.88996/

 

3rd Asian Conference on Microinsurance, China, 22 – 23 July 2009

Microinsurance as an Attractive Growth Strategy in the Changing Economic
Landscape

More information
<http://www.asiainsurancereview.com/pages/conference_details.asp?id=124>
http://www.asiainsurancereview.com/pages/conference_details.asp?id=124

/// with the support of the Microinsurance Network / Microinsurance Network
members get 20% off the registration fee ///

 

5th Concertation Forum, Cameroon, 28 September - 2 October 2009

10 years of mutuality in Africa: Realities, trends and challenges, mutuality
and health insurance, access to health care and conditions of its
development

More information  <http://www.concertation.org> http://www.concertation.org

 

5th International Microinsurance Conference Senegal, 3 – 5 November 2009

Providing health insurance to the poor, Linking microfinance and
microinsurance, The African microinsurance experience, Scientific track –
Economic analysis of microinsurance markets

More information  <http://www.microinsuranceconference2009.org/>
http://www.microinsuranceconference2009.org/

/// in collaboration with the Microinsurance Network / Microinsurance
Network members can contact the secretariat for free exhibition space ///

 

 

Microinsurance Training Announcement

 

Financial Mainstreaming of Microinsurance and Savings, Philippines, 2 - 4
July 2009

Organised by Sedpi and Ateneo de Manila University  

 

The training presents the seven basic principles of insurance and challenges
that microinsurance faces. Participants will be able to know existing coping
mechanisms of the poor against adversities. The course will differentiate
characteristics of informal and formal insurance. Different microinsurance
products will be discussed given their relative complexity to implement.
Participants will likewise be taught on a framework to assess insurance
needs of clients. The course also outlines strategies in implementation such
as linking up with formal insurance or being dependent; and making the
microinsurance mandatory or voluntary.

 

For more information, visit
<http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.11.88904/>
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.11.88904/

 

 

Microinsurance News about...:

 

RMS progresses microinsurance agenda against catastrophic earthquake risk in
rural China, Press Release Point, 8 June 2009 and Insurance Journal, 8 June
2009

 

New quantitative analysis by Risk Management Solutions (RMS) reveals that a
microinsurance system could be both technically and commercially viable to
provide cover against catastrophic earthquake risk in rural China. 

 

Indian farmers to insure themselves against climate change crop failure, The
Guardian, 8 June 2009

 

Following a successful trial last month, MicroEnsure (winner of the 2009
Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards, in the category Achievement for
Basic Needs Financing) plans to launch a scheme next year for up to 600,000
farmers in India's Kolhapur province allowing them to insure against their
rice crops failing due to drought or heavy rains during the plants'
flowering period.

 

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