Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Health Microinsurance: A comparative analysis of three examples in Bangladesh
This comparative study looks at three health insurance schemes in Bangladesh, namely those run by BRAC, Grameen Kalyan (GK) and the Society for Social Services (SSS). To access this paper, please click here.
Myths and Realities: Health Insurance for the Poor
An article published in Economic and Political Weekly captures in a nutshell the myths and realities in health insruance for the poor in India. The article, written by the project's lead expert Prof. David Dror, confronts prevailing myths in India with evidence from this project's survey. The article can be downloaded here.
Microinsurance Best Practices
Insurance Provision in Low-Income Communities, Part II: Initial Lessons from Micro-Insurance Experiments for the Poor. Microenterprise Best Practices. Available online here.
Health Insurance Article in IRDA Journal
Health Insurance. IRDA Journal, Vol. 2, No. 11. Available online here.
Microinsurance in India
Concept Paper on Need for Developing Micro-Insurance in India. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority. Available online here.
Strengthening Micro Health Insurance in India
The Strengthening Micro Health Insurance Units for the Poor in India is a consortium of not for profit research and business organizations sharing a common goal: help to establish health insurance for the poor in India using microinsurance. They have an excellent archive with articles on microinsurance related topics available here.
IIM Demand for Microinsurance
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) published a working paper on the Factors Affecting the Demand for Health Insurance in a Micro Insurance Scheme. Find this research publication here.
CGAP Microinsurance Good and Bad Practices
On behalf of the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance, the ILO’s Social Finance Programme is managing a project to learn about good and bad practices in microinsurance. Jointly funded by SIDA, DFID, GTZ and the ILO, the major outputs of this project are available here.
SEWA Insurance Case Study
The ILO India website with a link to publications. The SEWA Insurance Case Study (2006) may eventually be published here.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
21 Questions on CBHF
21 questions and answers on an overview of community based health financing. This study available here.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Tata/AIG's Awareness-Building Experience
Tata/AIG engaged in extensive efforts to educate potential users on the benefits of insurance through an innovative training involving community leaders, establishing "rural commmunity insurance groups", and marketing the concept of insurance. The case study is available here.
Tata/AIG and Microinsurance
Tata AIG Life Insurance has created product brochures to market microinsurance to poor and rural populations in India. These three brochures can be accessed here.
The Demand for Microinsurance
This report offers guidelines for qualitative market research regarding the demand for microinsurance. The report is available online here.
Microinsurance Initiative Awards
The “Micro Insurance Initiative Awards” is an initiative launched by PlaNet Finance India in partnership with the insurance group ING. This contest targets Indian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and their clients. It is aimed at raising awareness and training players of the Indian Microfinance sector to micro Insurance. Available online here.
A Guide for Case Studies in Microinsurance
This guide is conceived to assist in the implementation of case studies on health micro-insurance and to provide a common methodology. It indicates precisely the information to be collected and how to elaborate the analysis report. It does not seek to evaluate the systems, neither in terms of impact, nor in terms of efficiency of the health sector. The guide is primarily destined for those responsible for implementing case studies. Click here to access this guide.
Microfinance Gateway
The Microfinance Gateway website has a great resource center for microinsurance related topics, available online here.
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