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 > English > Spanish Summary Schulze > English > Spanish | | | 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 > English Summary CGAP > English Summary Planet Guarantee > English
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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 > English > Spanish Summary Bali Swain > English > Spanish Summary Cruz > English > Spanish 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 > Spanish | | Session 3
| 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 > Spanish Summary Pérez Rojas > English > Spanish Summary Barrau > English > Spanish | | | 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 > English > Spanish
Summary Rial > English
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 > English > Spanish Summary Govindjee > English > Spanish Summary Ramanathan > English > 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 > English > Spanish Summary McCann > English > Spanish Summary Boucher > English > 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 > English Summary Microinsurance Innovation Facility >English | |
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 > English > 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 > English > Spanish
| | | 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 > English > Spanish Summary Murphy > English > Spanish Summary Devaprakash > English > 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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