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<body><!-- ***** Enter Newsletter Title Below ***** --><center><table border="2" bordercolor="#336699" cellpadding="15" width="600"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#046d4d"><font color="#ffffff" face="verdana, arial"><img name="Grafik1" src="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/typo3temp/pics/c2a0d08771.jpg" style="border: 0px solid ; width: 140px; height: 140px;" alt="Logo Pro MHI Africa"></font><font color="#ffffff" face="verdana, arial"><font size="+1"><br><br><b>Pro
MHI Africa - EU-African University Network to strengthen
community-based micro health insurance </b></font></font><font color="#ffffff" face="verdana, arial"><font size="+1"><b><comment title=" ***** Enter Newsletter Name Below ***** " xmlns="http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/nvu"><!-- ***** Enter Newsletter Name Below ***** --></comment></b></font><br><comment title=" ***** Enter Subtitle, Volume #, Date Below ***** " xmlns="http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/nvu"><!-- ***** Enter Subtitle, Volume #, Date Below ***** --></comment>Newsletter
| Volume # 3 | July 2009</font></td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font face="verdana, arial"><!-- ***** Enter Descriptive Text Below ***** --> </font><div style="text-align: right; font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><div style="text-align: right;"><p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: left; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" lang="en-GB">Dear
ladies and gentlemen,</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Welcome
to the</span>
3<sup><span lang="en-GB">rd</span></sup>
newsletter
of
„Pro
Micro Health Insurance Africa – EU-African University Network to
strengthen community-based Micro Health Insurance“.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">We
are glad to announce that we successfully conducted our comparative
household survey in Botswana, Ghana and Malawi and are now about to
analyse the quantitative data which will provide us evidence on the
potential, </span><span lang="en-GB">efficiency,
and sustainability of Micro Health Insurance in Africa. </span>
</p><p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">The
main concern of this Newsletter is the common </span><span lang="en-GB">CALL
FOR PAPERS for the official “Pro MHI Africa Handbook of Micro
Health Insurance in Africa”</span><span lang="en-GB">.
All interested researchers and micro health insurance practitioners
are herewith called to contribute their proposals for this Handbook.
Please note that all accepted papers are supposed to be presented at
the Final Conference of the Pro MHI Africa project which will take
place in December 2009 in Lilongwe, Malawi. Please find the official
CALL FOR PAPERS as the first content of this newsletter and
the official CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENT</span><span lang="en-GB"></span><span lang="en-GB">
as the second one.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Furthermore
we want to inform about further ongoing project activities like the </span><span lang="en-GB">development
of teaching and training material</span><span lang="en-GB">. </span><span lang="en-GB"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Please
feel free to disseminate the contents of the newsletter to all who
might be interested. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Best
regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.21cm; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB">Pro
MHI Africa Team</span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="#Impressum">Impressum</a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "DejaVu Sans";" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div></td></tr><tr><td width="400"><p style="text-align: left; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><a name="Tops">topics</a><o:p></o:p></b></p><ol style="margin-top: 0cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><u><a href="#Introduction">CALL FOR PAPERS for the
official PRO MHI AFRICA Handbook of Micro Health Insurance in Africa</a><o:p></o:p></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><u><a href="#Team">CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT of the Final Conference
in Lilongwe, Dec 2009</a></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><u><a href="#Definition">Recent research activities: Development
of Teaching and Training
Material</a><o:p></o:p></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"><u><a href="#Research">Outlook and further information<o:p></o:p></a></u></li></ol>
</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><font face="verdana, arial"><font color="#336699"><b><comment title=" ***** Enter Bold Text #1 Below ***** " xmlns="http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/nvu"></comment> </b></font></font><a name="Introduction" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: DejaVu Sans;">1. CALL
FOR PAPERS for the official PRO MHI AFRICA Handbook of Micro
Health Insurance in Africa<font style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"> </font>(ending
very soon!)<font style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;">
</font></a><font style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;" face="verdana, arial"><small><small style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="#Tops">back</a></small></small></font>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; font-family: DejaVu Sans; margin-left: 27px; width: 641px;"><font face="DejaVu Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> The
international Pro MHI Africa Network will publish a common Handbook of
Micro Health Insurance in Africa by the end of 2009 that will contain
the results of the two year research as well as numerous external
contributions within the field of Micro Health Insurance in Africa to
guarantee a multifaceted scientific and practitioners' perspective.</font></font><br><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><font size="-1"><a href="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/177.html">Please
find the official CALL FOR PAPERS and further information on the
procedure on our website</a></font>
</span></span></p><b style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: -18pt; text-align: left; font-family: DejaVu Sans; margin-left: 27px; width: 639px;"><b style=""><a name="Team">2. CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENT: "Lessons learnt and lessons to learn in
the field of Micro Health Insurance
in Africa", 2-3 December 2009, Lilongwe </a></b><font size="-2"><b style=""><a href="#Tops">back</a></b></font><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font size="-2"> </font><br></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 29px; width: 639px; font-family: DejaVu Sans;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "DejaVu Sans";" lang="EN-GB">The Pro MHI
Africa Network will hold a conference at the end of its two
year project
in
December 2009 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lilongwe</st1:city></st1:place>.
The conference will constitute a platform for various microinsurance
stakeholders in Africa and worldwide. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "DejaVu Sans";" lang="EN-GB"><st1:place w:st="on">Please find
the
preliminary conference program as well as details on the conference
venue and the registration form on our website.</st1:place></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "DejaVu Sans";" lang="EN-GB"></span><font size="-1"><a href="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/247.html">Read
more on our website</a></font> <b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: DejaVu Sans; margin-left: 8px; width: 660px;"><b style=""><a name="Definition">3. Recent
research activities: Development
of teaching and training
modules
of the Pro MHI Africa Network </a></b><b style=""><st1:place w:st="on"></st1:place></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><b style=""><small><small><a href="#Tops">back</a></small></small></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 30px; width: 638px; font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" lang="EN-GB">A</span>
general lack of evidence among stakeholders within the micro health
insurance
landscape was identified as a major problem, hindering the
development of this pro-poor arrangements. Within the Pro-MHI Africa
network the cooperating universities are developing common teaching and
training modules in the field of Micro Health Insurance in Africa
using the projects research findings. Already existing microfinance
course modules of the universities will serve as a basis for
developing new teaching modules. The network furthermore aims at
introducing a joint microinsurance diploma in order to provide
adequately skilled professionals in the field of Micro Health
Insurance in a long-term-prospective. In line with the curriculum
development at the universities the network develops training
material for micro insurance practitioners that will be handed over
to dedicated, non-profit training institutions which can ensure
sustainability for the long term use of the Pro MHI Africa training
modules within the local communities. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 30px; width: 638px; font-family: DejaVu Sans;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font size="-1"><a href="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/186.html">Read
more about the teaching modules on our website</a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 30px; width: 638px; font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font size="-1"><a href="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/184.html">Read
more about the training modules on our website</a></font></span></p><font style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;" face="verdana, arial"><font color="#336699"><b><comment title=" ***** Enter Bold Text #2 Below ***** " xmlns="http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/nvu"></comment></b></font></font><b style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><a name="Research"> 4.
Outlook and further information</a></b><b style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;">
</b><small style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><b><small><a href="#Tops">back</a></small></b></small><br><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 31px; width: 637px;" align="justify" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000"><font face="DejaVu Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
are </span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;">looking forward </span>to
your proposals to our Handbook
as well as to your participation in our final conference in Lilongwe!
We will keep you
informed regarding further activities within our university network.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: DejaVu Sans; margin-left: 31px; width: 637px;" align="justify"><font color="#0000ff"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">For
further information on the CALL FOR PAPERS for the Handbook of Micro
Health Insurance in Africa as well as the FINAL CONFERENCE in Malawi,
please contact:</span></font></font><u><a href="mailto:Lisa-Marie.Rohrdantz@uni-koeln.de"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"> lisa-marie.rohrdantz@uni-koeln.de</span></font></a></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 33px; width: 633px;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;">For
further
information on the "Pro MHI Africa" network please visit our website: <a href="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org">http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 33px; width: 633px;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;">For general information on
microinsurance and micro health insurance please visit:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 33px; width: 633px;"><font style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><a href="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/links.html">http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/links.html</a></font></p>
<b style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><b style=""><font color="#336699"><span =""></span></font></b></b><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" face="verdana, arial"><font color="#336699"><span =""> <font color="#336699"><small><small><a href="#Tops">back</a></small></small></font></span></font></font><span style=""></span><span style=""></span><br style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><b style=""><b style=""><font face="verdana, arial"><font color="#336699"><b style=""><span =""></span></b></font></font></b></b><b style=""><b style=""><font face="verdana, arial"><font color="#336699"><b style=""><span =""><b style=""><b style=""><font face="verdana, arial"><font color="#336699"><b style=""><b style=""><br></b></b></font></font></b></b></span></b></font></font></b></b><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img style="width: 123px; height: 82px;" src="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/uploads/pics/EU_01.jpg"><img style="width: 200px; height: 83px;" src="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/uploads/pics/logo_edulinkI.JPG"><span style=""><img style="width: 113px; height: 81px;" src="http://www.microhealthinsurance-africa.org/uploads/pics/acp_logoI.JPG"></span><span style=""></span><br></div><span style=""></span></div><font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: DejaVu Sans;" face="verdana, arial"><font color="#336699"><span =""></span></font></font><b style=""><b style=""><font face="verdana, arial"><font color="#336699"><b style=""><span =""></span></b></font></font></b></b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "DejaVu Sans";" lang="EN-GB">This
document has been produced with the financial assistance of the
European Union.
The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the Pro
MHI <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> project
and can under no circumstances be regarded
as reflecting the position of the European Union</span></i><span style=""></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;" size="-1">If
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and write "unsubscribe" as subject. Thank you very much for your
interest! The Pro MHI Africa Team</font><br style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><small style="font-family: DejaVu Sans;"><font color="black" size="-1"><small><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a name="Impressum"><br>Impressum:</a></span>
<br>Pro
MHI Africa - EU-African University Network to strengthen
community-based micro health insurance</small></font><br><font color="black" size="-1"><small><a href="http://www.genosem.uni-koeln.de">Department
for Cooperative Studies at the University of Cologne</a></small></font><br><small>c/o
Gerald Leppert</small><br><font color="black" size="-1"><small>Albertus
Magnus Platz </small></font><br><font color="black" size="-1"><small>50923
Cologne, Germany</small></font><br><font color="black" size="-1"><small>Tel.
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