Keep Your Insurance Close, and Your Friends and Family Closer
Throughout our research, we are seeing that friends and family are often a preferred source of support when a financial shock strikes. So, what is the role of microinsurance.
Microinsurance is Key to Managing Risk: Wrapping-up
CGAP's recent blog series on microinsurance brought together over a dozen thought leaders and confirmed that microinsurance is an important service to help poor households protect their fragile livelihoods and lives against inevitable risks and unexpected catastrophes.
What Do We Know about the Impact of Microinsurance?
Knowledge is still patchy but key insights are emerging on the impact of microinsurance products including financial protection and better access to health care.
Top 7 Opportunities for Funders to Advance Microinsurance
The Microinsurance Network and its members have identified interesting opportunities for donors and funders, based on experiments already underway, to further galvanize the sector.
Does Outpatient Care Through Microinsurance Offer Value?
Is there a business case for microinsurance? Does it provide value for clients? In Tanzania, The MicroInsurance Centre's MILK Project found two clear benefits to clients: getting them to a doctor sooner and efficiently financing health shocks.
Micro Health Insurance: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
Micro health insurance clients are increasingly being served by government-backed services. Does this mean that the trend is to move away from private providers?
From Diagnostic to Action: Developing Microinsurance in Nigeria
A Microinsurance Country Diagnostic in Nigeria revealed that while there is a huge opportunity for the development of a microinsurance market, low-income people in the country have limited knowledge of insurance and the value it can deliver.
Access to Insurance Through Regulation and Supervision
Adequate regulation and supervision enhance policyholder protection. That is the ultimate objective of insurance supervision and regulation according to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).
M-Insurance: Ensuring Take-off While Doing No Harm
Mobile network operators (MNOs) have recently begun offering insurance to their clients known as ‘m-insurance’, which offers a significant opportunity to scale-up access to insurance.