5th International Microinsurance Conference 2009 Agenda - 3-5 November 2009 - Dakar, Senegal - Le Méridien President Read available biographies by clicking on the speaker's name. | Day 1 | 3 November 2009
| | Download PDF - Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 08.00 | Registration | | | | | 09.00–12.30 | Pre conference
Open space for meetings and networking | | | | | 09.00–12.30 | Joint Microinsurance Network/IAIS policy seminar for regulators
(Invitation only) | Download PDF - Agenda (96 KB)
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> French | Presentations: Access to Insurance Initiative (1,2 MB) Bester (240 KB) Klein (880 KB) Makove (200 KB) Ngbwa (350 KB) Simoes (320 KB) Wiedmayer-Pfister (600 KB) | | | 09.00–12.30 | Meetings of the Microinsurance Network working groups
(Members of the working groups only) | | | | | 09.00-12.30 | Performance indicators workshop
(Invitation only – Workshop language: French) | | | | | 12.30 | Lunch break | | | | | 14.00 | Opening of the conference | Welcome address
Craig Churchill, Chairman, Microinsurance Network, Switzerland
Thomas Loster, Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany
Keynote speech
Charles Dan, Regional Director Africa, ILO, Ethiopia
Inaugural address
Néné Dieng, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Senegal | | | | 15.30 | Coffee break | | | | | 16.00 | Plenary 1
Round table: Challenges of microinsurance in Africa | Introduction
Michal Matul, ILO, Switzerland
Yoseph Aseffa, ILO, Ethiopia
The landscape of microinsurance in
Africa – Key findings
Panellists
Jean-Claude Ngbwa, Secretary General, CIMA, Gabon
Prisca Soares, Secretary General, AIO, Cameron
Protais Ayangma Amang, Président, FANAF, Cameroon
Olivier Louis dit Guerin, ILO, Senegal
Facilitator: Craig Thorburn, Senior Financial Sector Analyst, World Bank, USA |
Presentation Matul (3 MB)
Presentation Aseffa (3 MB) | | | 18.30 | Meet and greet reception | | | |
Day 2
Morning | 4 November 2009 | Speakers | Download PDF - Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 08.30 | Plenary 2
Health
Linking microinsurance to national health insurance | Marcia Metcalfe, Freedom from Hunger, USA
Cleofe Montemayor-Figuracion, CARD-MRI, Philippines
Extending healthcare coverage to the poor through private/public linkages: Lessons learned from CARD Bank, Philippines
Francis Asenso-Boadi, National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Ghana
The interplay between district wide
health insurance schemes and national health insurance policies in Ghana
Facilitator: Christine Bockstal, ILO, Senegal | Presentation Metcalfe (1,6 MB)
Presentation Asenso-Boadi (1,6 MB)
| | | 10.30 | Coffee break | | | | | 11.00 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 1 | Introduction to microinsurance | Marc Nabeth, CGSI-Consulting, France
Michael J. McCord, MicroInsurance Centre, USA
Dipankar Mahalonobis, MicroEnsure, Uganda | Presentation Nabeth (1,4 MB)
Presentation McCord (1,6 MB)
Presentation Mahalanobis (180 KB) | | | Session 2 | Health
Health mutals | Maxime Prud’Homme, SOCODEVI, Canada
The experience of the Mutuelle de
santé régionale de Sikasso in Mali
Sophy Fall, Caritas Mauritanie, Mauretanie
Dar-Naïm community mutual,
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Aparna Dalal, Financial Access Initiative, USA
Using health insurance to improve
quality of care
Facilitator: Graziella Ghesquière, Louvain Cooperation au Developpement, Belgium | Presentation Prud'Homme (460 KB)
Presentation Dalal (190 KB) | | | Session 3 | Academic track
Impact of microinsurance | Ralf Radermacher, Microinsurance Academy, India
What do we know about the impact of microinsurance?
Syed Abdul Hamid, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Can health microinsurance reduce poverty? Evidence from Bangladesh
Munenobu Ikegami, International Livestock Research Insitute, Kenya
Dynamic effects of index-based livestock insurance on household intertemporal
behaviour and welfare
Facilitator: Kim B. Staking, Colorado State University, USA | Presentation Radermacher (63 KB)
Presentation Hamid (150 KB)
Presentation Ikegami (394 KB) | Paper Radermacher (208 KB)
Paper Hamid (164 KB)
Paper Ikegami (524 KB)
| | 12.30 | Lunch break | | | |
Day 2
Afternoon | 4 November 2009 | Speakers | Download PDF - Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 14.30 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 4 | The African experience
Roundtable: Challenges and opportunities for the development of microinsurance in Senegal | Adolphe Ouedraogo, CIMA, Gabon
Patrick Kodjo, BCEAO, Senegal
Aîda Djigo Wane, AMSA, Senegal
Facilitator: Fatou Assah, Worldbank, Nigeria | Presentation Ouedraogo (390 KB)
Presentation Wane (260 KB) | | | Session 5 | Health
Financing mechanisms for health | Dramane Batchabi, ILO, Benin
Solidarity between workers in the
informal economy and workers in SMEs with a view to providing access to a health insurance product
Pascale Le Roy, Consultant, France
Third-party payment mechanisms in
health microinsurance in developing countries: Lessons learned on design
and management
Abou Diagne, TransVie, Senegal
Promoting cost-sharing between workers and employers
Saïbou Seynou, Ministère du Travail et de la sécurité sociale, Burkina Faso
Experience with financing mechanisms
for health
Facilitator: Caroline Phily, ILO, Switzerland | Presentation Batchabi (380 KB)
Presentation Le Roy (160 KB)
Presentation Diagne (290 KB)
Presentation Seynou (440 KB) |
| | Session 6 | Academic track
Demand for microinsurance | Susan Steiner, University of Manchester, UK
More than just credit: Household demand for (micro)financial services in rural Ghana
Christiane Ströh, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Remittances, bancarisation and the demand for formal and semi-formal insurance schemes
Kelly Bidwell, Innovations for Poverty Action, Ghana
Addressing agricultural risks: Review of ongoing microinsurance field experiments
Facilitator: Ralf Radermacher, Microinsurance Academy, India | Presentation Steiner (670 KB)
Presentation Ströh (570 KB)
Presentation Bildwell (290 KB)
| Paper Steiner (332 KB)
Paper Ströh (422 KB)
Paper Bidwell (198 KB) | | 16.00 | Coffee break | | | | | 16.30 | Plenary 3
Linking microfinance with Microinsurance
How can microfinance be a driver for microinsurance? | Craig Churchill, ILO, Switzerland
Dos and don’ts: Microinsurance recommendations for microfinance institutions
Arman Oza, Quadrant Consultants Pvt. Ltd., India
Converging microfinance and microinsurance: Possibilities, issues and challenges
Anna Gincherman, Women's World Banking, USA
How to enhance service for the clients: Experience from WWB
Facilitator: Dipankar Mahalanobis, MicroEnsure, Uganda | Presentation Churchill (650 KB)
Presentation Oza (110 KB)
Presentation Gincherman (350 KB) | | | 18.30 | Dinner reception | | | |
Day 3
Morning | 5 November 2009 | Speakers | Download PDF - Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 08.30 | Plenary 4
Academic track
What we know and what we need to know about microinsurance | Introduction
Kelly Bidwell, Innovations for Poverty Action, Ghana
Discussants
Jeremy Leach, Hollard Insurance, South Africa
Arup Chatterjee, IAIS, Switzerland
Facilitator: Richard Phillips, Georgia State University, USA |
Presentation Bidwell & Phillips (1,1 MB) | | | 10.30 | Coffee break | | | | | 11.00 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 7 | The African experience
How to reach the low income market | Janice Angove, Quindiem Consulting, South Africa
Experiences of traditional insurers in the microinsurance market in Southern and Eastern Africa
Charles Mutua Wambua, Swedish Cooperative Centre, Kenya
Marketing microinsurance products: Challenges and solutions
Oumar Savadogo, Confédération des Institutions Financières de l’Afrique de l’Ouest, Burkina Faso
What risk-management needs do the customers of MFIs have and how can they best be met?
Facilitator: Jeremy Leach, Hollard Insurance, South Africa | Presentation Angove (233 KB)
Presentation Mutua Wambua (348 KB)
Presentation Savadogo (600 KB) | | | Session 8 | Health
Management issues | Denis Garand, Consultant, Denis Garand and Associate, Canada
Pricing health microinsurance
Peter Wrede, Microinsurance Specialist, AKAM, Switzerland
The importance of renewal, and the benefit of customer loyalty
Wei Zheng, Associate Professor, Peking University, China
Efficiency assessment of China’s
NRCMS and its implications for microinsurance in developing countries
Facilitator: Gabriele Ramm, Consultant to GTZ, Germany | Presentation Garand (76 KB)
Presentation Wrede (504 KB)
Presentation Zheng (68 KB)
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Paper Zheng (208 KB) | | Session 9 | Linking Microfinance and Microinsurance
Operational lessons and experiences | Sameer Kwatra, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co., India
Value Creation through bundling microinsurance with microfinance: Creating a Long Term Impact
Tewabe Aysheshim, Amhara Credit and Saving Institution (ACSI), Ethiopia
ACSI's move towards providing microinsurance services to the poor: Exploring opportunities and current challenges
Facilitator: Brigitte Klein, GTZ, Germany | Presentation Kwatra (610 KB)
Presentation Aysheshim (740 KB) | | | 12.30 | Lunch break | | | |
Day 3
Afternoon | 5 November 2009 | Speakers | Download PDF - Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 14.30 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 10 | Linking microfinance with microinsurance
Weather and agricultural microinsurance | Amadou Ndiouga Ndiaye, CNAAS, Senegal
Developing agricultural microinsurance
in Senegal: Challenges and possible solutions
Milana von Ruffin, University of California, Berkley, USA
Effect of weather insurance in
developing countries' rural areas – Lessons for successful microinsurance models
Michiel Berende, Berende Consulting, The Netherlands
How microfinance could improve index crop insurance
Facilitator: Thomas Loster, Munich Re Foundation, Germany | Presentation Ndiaye (446 KB)
Presentation von Ruffin (288 KB)
Presentation Berende (850 KB) | | | Session 11 | Academic track
Production and contract design | Martin Eling, Ulm University, Germany
The performance of microinsurance programs: A frontier efficiency analysis
John E. Murray, University of Toledo, USA
Asymmetric information and countermeasures in early
20thC United States microinsurance
Kim B. Staking, Colorado State University, USA
Insurance theory and challenges facing the development of microinsurance markets
Facilitator: Richard Phillips, Georgia State University, USA | Presentation Eling (400 KB)
Presentation Murray (300 KB)
Presentation Staking (547 KB) | Paper Eling (337 KB)
Paper Murray (166 KB)
Paper Staking (560 KB) | | Session 12 | Linking microfinance with microinsurance
Roundtable on institutional innovations | Richard Leftley, MicroEnsure, UK
Jose Luis Contreras, Aon Bolivia S.A., Bolivia
Alex Bernhardt, Guy Carpenter & Company, USA
Mathieu Dubreuil, PlaNet Guarantee, France
Facilitator: Michael J. McCord, MicroInsurance Centre, USA | |
Paper Contreras (130 KB) | | 16.00 | Coffee break | | | | | 16.30 | Plenary 5
Emerging issues and the way ahead | Cheryl Scott, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
Recommendations to advance health financing
Doubell Chamberlain, Cenfri, South Africa
New frontiers in distribution: what can
we learn from successes and failures?
Thomas Loster, Munich Re Foundation, Germany
The role of microinsurance facing
climate change
Alexia Latortue, CGAP, France
Putting client protection at the heart of microinsurance
Facilitator: Rodolfo Wehrhahn, World Bank, USA |
Presentation Chamberlain (650 KB)
Presentation Loster (1,7 MB) | | | 18.30 | Closing of the conference | | | |
| Day 4 | 6 November 2009 | Download PDF - Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 08.30 | Meeting of the Microinsurance Network Executive Committee
and Working Group Facilitators
(Members only) | | | | 10.30 | Coffee break | | | | 11.00 - 18.30 | Microinsurance Network
General Assembly
(Members only) | | |
| Day 5 | 7 November 2009 | 09.00 -
18.30 | Meeting of the Microinsurance Network Executive Committee
(Members only) |
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