[Subgroup-health] Mission statement v3 and 1st proposal for a tentative Agenda of our meeting in Cartagena

[Iddo Dror]

Dear Valerie and all,

Looking forward to seeing you in Cartagena next week.  As it happens, I 
will facilitate the impact subgroup, which will be meeting in parallel 
to the health (and technology) group, so will unfortunately not be able 
to join the meeting (maybe the 2nd half if it indeed runs for 4 
hours).   Still, the health group remains a very important group for 
which I would like to offer to the following thoughts:

1. The agenda is quiet comprehensive, and there's a lot of items for 
discussion.  It seems clear to me that the subgroup will be hard pressed 
to find the resources to work on all the potential issues, and fully 
support the notion that one should focus on a few key issues.  From my 
side, the following (inter-related) issues are top priority:

_*On the role of HMI*_
·         Relevance: Why does the vast majority of the poor rank health 
as their top microinsurance need? How do they expect microinsurance to 
meet those needs? Is the industry responding to this adequately?**
*_Benefit packages and provision_*
·         How to design an essential cost effective benefit package 
adapted to the specific needs and priorities (economically and socially) 
of the targeted groups?
·         How to most effectively market and educate the poor about 
health insurance and its benefits (in connection with the capacity 
building subgroup)?** **
_*Sustainability and outcome*_
·         Can HMI really help the poor improve their access to health? 
What models are most effective? How can this be measured?**

2. The Micro Insurance Academy is already engaged in research and 
implementation projects on all of these issues, through a number of 
projects in South Asia.  Will be happy to share more details when we 
meet in Cartagena.

3. While using individual organizations' projects as a basis offers cost 
advantages, it is important that the health subgroup does not merely 
become another channel to echo what others are doing.  Therefore, it 
would be good if a concrete discussion in Cartagena yields a plan of 
action, complete with a strategy to raise funds to accomplish the plan 
of action.

Best regards,

Iddo

-- 
Iddo Dror, PhD 

Director of Operations
Micro Insurance Academy
http://www.microinsuranceacademy.org




Valérie Schmitt-Diabate wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>  
>
> Please find attached a *revised version of our mission 
> statement* including all your comments and an updated list of the 
> subgroup members. As you may see the paragraph "Our framework" has 
> been modified according to the CGAP working group’s modifications 
> and its transformation into the "Microinsurance Network".
>
>  
>
> I am pleased to confirm that this year the health microinsurance 
> sub-group will have a long and – hopefully - productive working 
> session in Cartagena; it will take place on Wednesday 5^th of 
> November, from 14h00 to 18h00 in sala de comision 1.
>
>  
>
> I think we could take this opportunity to choose the key questions we 
> want to address in 2009 and start working on them.
>
> To ease the process we could maybe identify what research each of us 
> plans to conduct in 2009 and what the field projects we plan to work 
> on are. We will then see if it is possible to capitalize on these 
> activities to serve one or more of the priority areas in our mission 
> statement.
>
> We can also consider developing specific activities from scratch for 
> the subgroup, but this will be more cost demanding!
>
> Maybe we could also take this opportunity to finalize the mission 
> statement and consider what will be done with it.  Should it be 
> circulated for instance?
>
>  
>
> Since we only have a tiny little week left before our sub-group 
> meeting in Cartagena, I would suggest that those who want to should 
> suggest other issues which can be raised during this meeting, so that 
> we can *come up with a tentative agenda by next Friday*.
>
>  
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Valerie
>
>  
>
>
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