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style='color:black'>Making Microinsurance Work for Nigeria</span></b><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> microinsurancefocus-bounces@microfinance.lu
[mailto:microinsurancefocus-bounces@microfinance.lu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Microinsurance
Network<br>
<b>Sent:</b> mardi 9 juin 2009 10:19<br>
<b>To:</b> microinsurancefocus@microfinance.lu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Microinsurancefocus] Microinsurance Conferences and News
Update -www.microinsurancenetwork.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>Microinsurance
Conference Announcements<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>Making
Microinsurance Work for Nigeria, Nigeria, 23 – 24 June 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>The
workshop will focus on practical topics on microinsurance product development
and service delivery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>More
information </span><span style='color:#C00000'><a
href="http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.11.88996/"><span
style='color:#C00000'>http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.11.88996/</span></a></span><span
style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>3rd
Asian Conference on Microinsurance, China, 22 – 23 July 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>Microinsurance
as an Attractive Growth Strategy in the Changing Economic Landscape<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>More
information </span><span style='color:#C00000'><a
href="http://www.asiainsurancereview.com/pages/conference_details.asp?id=124"><span
style='color:#C00000'>http://www.asiainsurancereview.com/pages/conference_details.asp?id=124</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:#95B3D7'>///
with the support of the Microinsurance Network / Microinsurance Network members
get 20% off the registration fee ///<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>5th
Concertation Forum, Cameroon, </span></b><span style='color:black'>28 September
- 2 October 2009<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>10
years of mutuality in Africa: Realities, trends and challenges, mutuality and
health insurance, access to health care and conditions of its development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>More
information </span><span style='color:#C00000'><a
href="http://www.concertation.org"><span style='color:#C00000'>http://www.concertation.org</span></a></span><span
style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:black'>5th
International Microinsurance Conference</span></b><span style='color:black'>
Senegal, 3 – 5 November 2009<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>Providing
health insurance to the poor, Linking microfinance and microinsurance, The
African microinsurance experience, Scientific track – Economic analysis of microinsurance
markets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='color:black'>More
information </span><span style='color:#C00000'><a
href="http://www.microinsuranceconference2009.org/"><span style='color:#C00000'>http://www.microinsuranceconference2009.org/</span></a></span><span
style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='color:#95B3D7'>///
in collaboration with the Microinsurance Network / Microinsurance Network
members can contact the secretariat for free exhibition space ///</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#95B3D7'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Microinsurance Training Announcement<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Financial Mainstreaming of Microinsurance and Savings,
Philippines, 2 - 4 July 2009<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Organised by Sedpi and Ateneo de Manila University <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>For more information, visit <span style='color:#C00000'><a
href="http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.11.88904/"><span
style='color:#C00000'>http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.11.88904/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Microinsurance News about...:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>RMS progresses microinsurance agenda against catastrophic
earthquake risk in rural China, </b>Press Release Point, 8 June 2009 and
Insurance Journal, 8 June 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Indian farmers to insure themselves against climate
change crop failure, </b>The Guardian, 8 June 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>For more information, go to <span style='color:#C00000'><a
href="http://www.microinsurancenetwork.org"><span style='color:#C00000'>www.microinsurancenetwork.org</span></a></span>
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