[Microinsurancefocus] REBUTTAL: Microinsurance Conferences and News Update -www.microinsurancenetwork.org

Tue Jun 9 10:43:37 CEST 2009

Dear Microinsurance Focus readers

The editor of this list wants to share with you the following rebuttal:

The Microinsurance Center is not involved in the below announced workshop: Making Microinsurance Work for Nigeria, Nigeria, 23 - 24 June 2009 and no concrete information is available about the organisers. Please, disregard the announcement with regards to this workshop.

Do accept our apologies for sending out this information in the first place.

Véronique Faber, veronique.ada at microfinance.lu <mailto:veronique.ada at microfinance.lu>  

Microinsurance Network

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From: microinsurancefocus-bounces at microfinance.lu [mailto:microinsurancefocus-bounces at microfinance.lu] On Behalf Of Microinsurance Network
Sent: mardi 9 juin 2009 10:19
To: microinsurancefocus at microfinance.lu
Subject: [Microinsurancefocus] Microinsurance Conferences and News Update -www.microinsurancenetwork.org

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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