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. 4 November 2008
17.00-18.00: Registration |
| Day 1 | 5 November 2008
| | Download PDF - Summaries | Download PDF - Presentations | | 08.00 | Registration | | | | | 09.00 | 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:
Álvaro 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 |
| Presentation Churchill
> 570 KB
Presentation
McCord
> 730 KB
Presentation Tomchinsky
> 580 KB | | 12.30 | Lunch | | | | | 14.00 | | Open space for meetings and networking
| | | | | Meetings of the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance’s subgroups
(Members only) | Meeting schedule
> English | | | 18.00 | Meet and greet reception | | | |
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, Fasecolda, Colombia
Mark Wenner, Inter-American Development Bank, USA
Antonio Cássio Dos Santos, Fenaprevi, Brasil
Jorge Claude, Fides, USA
Facilitator: César Prado, 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
IAIS’s approach to capacity building
Iddo Dror, 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, Luxembourg |
Summary Dror/ Radermacher
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Summary Schulze
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| Presentation Ramm
> 350 KB
Presentation Chatterjee
> 860 KB
Presentation Dror
> 76 KB
Presentation Schulze
> 129 KB (Spanish)
> 140 KB (English) | | 12.30 | Lunch break | | | | | 13.00-14.00 | Side events | Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Switzerland
Planet guarantee
CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance
Performance indicators | Summary
Microinsurance Innovation Facility
> English Summary Planet Guarantee
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Summary CGAP
> English | |
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, 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 | Presentation
de la Torre
> 7 MB
Presentation Bali Swain
> 890 KB
Presentation Cruz
> 2,9 MB
| | 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 and the Caribbean
Carmen Barboza, Aseguradora Tajy Propiedad Cooperativa S.A de Seguros, Paraguay
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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Summary Barboza
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Summary Waldmann
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> Spanish | Presentation Radde
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Presentation Barboza
> 1,6 MB
Presentation Waldmann
> 6,4 MB | Session 3
| Capacity building role of actuaries in microinsurance
| Facilitated discussion:
Peter Wrede, AKDN, Switzerland
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
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Summary Barrau
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> Spanish
| Presentation Prashad
> 2,6 MB
Presentation Pérez Rojas
> 1 MB
Presentation Barrau
> 6,2 MB | | 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, France |
Summary Gerelle/Berende > English
> Spanish |
Presentation
Gerelle/Berende
> 4,5 MB | | 10.30 | Coffee Break | | | | | 11.00 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 4 | Linking social protection schemes with microinsurance | Barbara Magnoni, President, EA Consultants, USA
Increasing enrolment 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 | Presentation Magnoni
> 700 KB
Presentation Rial
> 120 KB
Presentation Schmitt-Diabate
> 500 KB
Presentation Jacquier
> 36 KB | | 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
Doubell Chamberlain, Cenfri,
South Africa
Policy issues for mutuals
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 Ramanathan
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> Spanish | Presentation von Pischke
> 170 KB
Presentation Chamberlain
> 386 KB
Presentation Ramanathan
> 730 KB | | 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 programme in Peru
Facilitator: Michal Matul,
Microinsurance Innovation Facility- ILO, Switzerland | Summary Diaz
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> Spanish
Summary McCann
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> Spanish
Summary Boucher
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> Spanish | Presentation Diaz/Cohen
> 720 KB
Presentation McCann
> 680 KB
Presentation Boucher
> 1 MB
| | 12.30 | Lunch | | | | | 13.00-14.00 | Side events | Micro Insurance Academy/CHAT, India
Involving customers in benefit package design - Choosing Healthplans All Together (CHAT)
ILO, Switzerland
GIMI | Summary Micro Insurance Academy
> English
Summary GIMI 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 in Latin America | Carla Chiappe Villegas, SBS, Peru
Regina Simoes, 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 | Presentation Villegas
> 800 KB
Presentation Simoes/Vergílio
> 3,4 MB
Presentation Garzón Gaitán > 1 MB | | 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 two schemes in Pakistan
Elisa Carolina Torrenegra Cabrera, Gestarsalud, Colombia
The subsidised régime of health
operated by companies
Christine Bockstal, ILO, Senegal
Facilitator: Denis Garand, Consultant, Canada | Summary Pott
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> Spanish
| Presentation Pott
> 210 KB
Presentation Torrenegra Cabrera
> 3,3 MB
Presentation Bockstal
> 300 KB | | 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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> Spanish
Summary Murphy
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Summary Devaprakash
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> Spanish | Presentation Oxley
> 240 KB
Presentation Murphy
> 103 KB
Presentation Devaprakash
> 1,2 MB
Presentation Loster
> 930 KB | | 16.00 | Coffee break | | | | | 16.30 | Plenary 5
Regulation, supervision and policy issues | Introduction:
Doubell Chamberlain, Cenfri, 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 | RSP case studies:
> Colombia
> India
> Philippines
> South Africa
> Uganda > Cross-country findings | Presentation Chamberlain
> 340 KB
Presentation Arias
> 1,1 MB (Spanish)
> 700 KB (English) | | 18.00 - 18.30 | Closing of the conference | | | | | | | Download all summaries Plenaries and sessions
> English (1.2 MB) > Spanish (1 MB) Side events
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