Event Name: The Business Viability of Microinsurance
Event Date: November 24, 2011, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Central European Time (GMT +1 hour)
Event Location: Online
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Cost: Free
About the Event:
With eye toward market expansion, this webinar aims to explore the circumstances under which insurance companies can generate profit while providing valued risk management services to poor people and how commercial viability can be sustained over time. Participants may join and interact with:
• Craig Churchill, Team Leader of the Microinsurance Innovation Facility of the United Nations’ International Labour Organization (ILO) and Chair of the Luxemburg-based nonprofit Microinsurance Network;
• Pedro Bulcão, Chief Executive Officer, Sinaf Seguros, Brazil;
• Alok Agarwal, Executive Director, ICICI Lombard, India; and
• Jasmin Suministrado, Knowledge Officer of the Microinsurance Innovation Facility and moderator of the event.
For additional information you may email ilo@ilo.org or telephone +41 (0) 22 799 6111.
Event Website: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/711210446?utm_source=Microlinks&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=bcoutreach
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By Ashim Kar, Research Associate
About ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility
Housed at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Social Finance Program in Geneva, the Microinsurance Innovation Facility seeks to increase the availability of quality insurance for the developing world’s low-income families to help them overcome poverty. In 2008, the United Nation’s ILO launched the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, a five-year USD 34 million project funded by the US-based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It endeavors to support the development of insurance products that are of value to low-income and rural households, encourage the emergence of institutional models and partnerships that effectively deliver insurance to large volumes of low-income households and promote education to help low-income consumers appreciate the utility of insurance and identify high-value products.
Source and additional resources:
“The Business Viability of Microinsurance”, https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/711210446?utm_source=Microlinks&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=bcoutreach
MicroCapital.org story, November 1, 2011, “MICROFINANCE EVENT: Second Annual Microinsurance Conference from the Institute for International Research (IIR), Johannesburg, South Africa, February 20 – 22, 2012”, https://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-event-second-annual-microinsurance-conference-from-the-institute-for-international-research-iir-johannesburg-south-africa-february-20-%e2%80%93-22-2012-3/
MicroCapital.org story, June 21, 2011, “MICROFINANCE EVENT: Munich Re Foundation to Host Seventh International Microinsurance Conference, November 8 – 10, 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”, https://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-event-munich-re-foundation-to-host-seventh-international-microinsurance-conference-november-8-%E2%80%93-november-10-2011-rio-de-janeiro-brazil/
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