Microinsurance Conference 2008 AgendaDownload available summaries and presentations by clicking on the PDF in the "download column". Read available biographies by clicking on the speaker's name. | Day 1 | 5 November 2008
| | Download PDF - Summaries | Download PDF - Presentations | | 9.00 | Opening of the conference | Welcome adress:
Craig Churchill, Chairman, CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance, ILO, Switzerland
Roberto Junguito, Executive President, Fasecolda, Colombia
Thomas Loster, Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany
Inaugural address:
Alvaro Uribe, President of Colombia | | | | 10.30 | Coffee break | | | | 11.00
| Workshop
Introduction to microinsurance | Craig Churchill, ILO, Switzerland
Michael McCord, MicroInsurance Centre, USA
Gabrielle Tomchinsky, Consultant, USA |
| | | 12.30 | Lunch | | | | | 14.00 | | Open space for meetings and networking
| | | | | Meetings of the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance’s subgroups
(invitation and members only) | | | | 18.00 | Meet and greet reception | Launch of the Spanish translation of the book “Protecting the Poor – A Microinsurance Compendium” | | |
Day 2
Morning | 6 November 2008 | Speakers | Download PDF - Summaries | Download PDF - Presentations | | 08.30 | Plenary 1
Challenges for microinsurance development in Latin America -
Roundtable | Roberto Junguito, President, Fasecolda, Colombia
Luiz Ros, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
Antonio Cássio Dos Santos, Fenaprevi, Brasil
Rodolfo Wehrhahn, President, Fides, USA
Facilitator: César Prado, Superintendente Financiero, Colombia | | | | 10.30 | Coffee break | | | | | 11:00 | Plenary 2
Strategic approaches to capacity building | Introduction: Gabriele Ramm, Consultant to GTZ, Germany
Arup Chatterjee, IAIS, Switzerland
Approach to capacity building
Ralf Radermacher, Micro Insurance Academy, India
Assisting communities to manage their
risks bottom up
Erick Schulze, Centro Afin, Bolivia
The advisor's role in microinsurance
Facilitator: Véronique Faber, ADA, Luxemburg |
Summary Radermacher
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Summary Schulze
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| | | 12.30 | Lunch break | | | | | 13.00-14.00 | Side events | UNEP Finance Initiative, Switzerland
Innovative financing for sustainability
CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance,
Performance Indicators for Microinsurance
Planet guarantee | Summary
UNEP FI
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Summary Planet Guarantee
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Day 2
Afternoon | 6 November 2008 | Speakers | Download PDF - Summaries | Download PDF - Presentations | | 14.30 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 1 | Distribution | Victoria Eugenia Bejarano de la Torre,
MAPFRE Seguros generales de Colombia S.A., Colombia
Public Utility Companies: massive and efficient distribution channels of microinsurance products
Ranjula Bali Swain, Milk India, Uppsala University, Sweden
Making microinsurance work: Multiple insurance products in Orissa’s Milk Federation in India
Isabel Cruz, AMUCS, Mexico
The Rural Social Network of Mexico
Facilitator: Teresa Eugenia Prada González, FMMB, Colombia | Summary de la Torre
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Summary Bali Swain
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Summary Cruz
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Summary González
> English | | | Session 2 | Role of reinsurance in promoting microinsurance | Hans Georg Radde, Benfield Group, UK
Role of the reinsurance industry in the microinsurance product development in Latin America & Caribbean
Carmen Barboza, Aseguradora Tajy Propiedad Cooperativa S.A de Seguros, Guatemala
Overcoming the challenges in accessing reinsurance by pooling together – the Latin American Reinsurance Group
Peter Waldmann, Munich Re, Colombia
Facilitator: Richard Leftley, Microinsurance Agency, USA | Summary Radde > English
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| Capacity building role of actuaries in microinsurance
Facilitated discussion | François-Xavier Hay, Uplift, France
Denis Garand, Consultant, Canada
Facilitator : Michael McCord, Microinsurance Center, USA | | | | 16.00 | Coffee break | | | | | 16.30 | Plenary 3
Insurers going down market | Pranav Prashad, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd., India
Microinsurance: Providing risk mitigation access through innovation in channels and products
Gonzalo Alberto Pérez Rojas, INVERSURA, Colombia
Microinsurance: An effective complement to microcredit solutions
Olivier Barrau, Alternative Insurance Company, Haiti
Credit/ life insurance
Facilitator: Luis Huerta, Seguros Argos S.A. de C.V., Mexico | Summary Prashad > English
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Summary Pérez Rojas
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Summary Barrau
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| | | 19.30 | Dinner reception
hosted by Fasecolda | | | |
Day 3
Morning | 7 November 2008 | Speakers | Download PDF - Summaries | Download PDF - Presentations | | 08.30 | Plenary 4
Technology | Introduction:
Eric Gerelle, IBEX Project Services, Switzerland/ Michiel Berende, Consultant, Netherlands
The use of technology in
microinsurance: Presentation of a technology stocktaking study and roundtable discussion on experiences in technology
Facilitator : François-Xavier Hay,
Uplift India, India |
Summary Gerelle/Berende > English
> Spanish | | | 10.30 | Coffee Break | | | | | 11.00 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 4 | Linking social protection schemes with microinsurance | Barbara Magnoni, President, EA Consultants, USA
Increasing enrollment of the informal sector in social health insurance through public/private partnerships: Experiences from Nicaragua and the Philippines
Brenda Rial, América Cooperativa y Mutual - ACYM, Uruguay
The design and implementation of an integrated National Health System in Uruguay
Valérie Schmitt-Diabate, ILO, Switzerland
Linkages between statutory social security schemes and community-based social protection mechanisms
Facilitator: Christian Jacquier,
ILO, Switzerland | Summary Magnoni
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Summary Rial
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Summary Schmitt-Diabate > English
> Spanish | | | Session 5 | New issues in microinsurance policy | J.D. von Pischke, Frontier Finance International, Inc., USA
Should poor people in developing countries make savings for the
long term? A concept paper and
research proposal
Avinash Govindjee, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Developing the regulatory contours of micro-health insurance in South Africa: Policy and normative considerations
from a social security perspective
C. S. Ramanathan, Worldbank, USA Insurance and conditional cash transfers (CCTs) – Covering risks to enable asset accumulation by the poor
Facilitator: Brigitte Klein, GTZ, Germany | Summary von Pischke
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Summary Govindjee
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Summary Ramanathan
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> Spanish | | | Session 6 | Capacity building for financial literacy | Alejandra Diaz, Fasecolda, Colombia/ Monique Cohen, Microfinance Opportunities, USA
Financial education for microinsurance
Michael McCann, Mutual & Federal, South Africa
Microinsurance and the link with consumer financial literacy
Steve Boucher, University of California - Davis, USA
An educational outreach strategy for
area yield insurance: Lessons from a
pilot program in Peru
Facilitator: David Dror,
Microinsurance Academy, India | Summary Diaz
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Summary McCann
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Summary Boucher
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> Spanish | | | 12.30 | Lunch | | | | | 13.00-14.00 | Side events | Micro Insurance Academy, India
Involving customers in benefit package design - Choosing Healthplans All Together (CHAT)
ILO, Switzerland
GIMI
Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Strenghtening microinsurance through innovation and cafspspacity building | Summary Micro Insurance Academy
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Summary Microinsurance Innovation Facility
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Day 3
Afternoon | 7 November 2008 | Speakers | Download PDF - Summaries | Download PDF - Presentations | | 14.30 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 7 | Regulation, supervision and policy issues
The Latin America perspective | Carla Chiappe Villegas, SBS, Peru
Armando Vergílio Dos Santos Júnior, Superintendente, SUSEP, Brazil
José Alberto Garzón Gaitán, Banco de Comercio Exterior de Colombia S.A. – Bancóldex, Colombia
The role of developing agencies in microinsurance promotion: the Colombian experience
Facilitator: Guillermo Aponte, Centro Afin, Bolivia |
Summary Garzón Gaitán
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> Spanish | | | Session 8 | Health | John Pott, Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance, Switzerland
Experimenting with innovative health microinsurance products, Issues for new practitioners - early quantitative lessons learned from 2 schemes in Pakistan
Elisa Carolina Torrenegra Cabrera, Gestarsalud, Colombia
The subsidized régime of health
operated by companies
Facilitator: Christine Bockstal, ILO, Senegal | Summary Pott
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| | | Session 9 | Agriculture / Disaster | Aaron Oxley, Micro Insurance Agency, USA
Index-based solutions for drought, floods and typhoons
Anne Murphy, Global Ag Risk Inc., USA
Using NGOs to advance microinsurance for weather risks among the rural poor
Ramakrishnan Devaprakash, CARE, India Designing a disaster specific product: Making it more relevant and affordable
Facilitator: Thomas Loster, Munich Re Foundation, Germany | Summary Oxley
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Summary Murphy
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Summary Devaprakash
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> Spanish | | | 16.00 | Coffee break | | | | | 16.30 | Plenary 5
Regulation, supervision and policy issues | Introduction:
Doubell Chamberlain, Genesis Analytics, South Africa
Guiding principles for the regulation of microinsurance
Discussants:
Roberto Borras, Director of financial regulation, Colombia
Recaredo Arias, General Director of the Mexican Association of Insurers, Mexico
Facilitator: Craig Thorburn, Worldbank, USA | | | | 18.00 - 18.30 | Closing of the conference | | | |
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