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ERD Regional Conference: Promoting Resilience through Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa, Dakar, Senegal, 28-30 June 2010
The Conference was organized around country-specific studies as well as regional research on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in order to address the key question of which types of social protection have worked and/or are expected to work best for the ...
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2010-07-28
Side Event: "The Social Protection Floor Initiative", 16 June, International Labour Conference 2010, Geneva
International Labour Conference 2010 Side Event organized by the ILO Social Security Department on"The Social Protection Floor Initiative"Palais des Nations, Room VII, on 16 June 2010 The side explains the the ...
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2010-06-10
New study entitled "Microinsurance- An Innovative Tool for Risk and Disaster Management" is released at the Third International Disaster and Risk Conference in Davos
The critical nature of microinsurance was recently highlighted at the Third International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC), sponsored by the Global Risk Forum with the launch of its newest publication, “Microinsurance- An ...
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2010-06-04
6th International Microinsurance Conference, 9 - 11 November, Manila, Philippines
The 6th International Microinsurance Conference is hosted by the Munich Re Foundation and the Microinsurance Network supported by GTZ/BMZ, the Department of Finance of the Philippines and Georgia State University’s Center for the ...
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2010-05-21
New publication on microinsurance: India's Report on Health Micro-Insurance Schemes. Diversity, innovations and trends
The report provides an across-the-country review of 100 on-going health microinsurance schemes targeting the disadvantaged groups in India.This document is a preliminary version of a database and aims, inter alia, to assess the overall ...
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2010-05-21
New rural cooperative medical scheme in China (NRCMS)
The NRCMS is a new basic health social security system, started in 2003, that combines insurance and social assistance, and targets all farmers and rural residents. This system is one of the key elements of the social protection floor in China. ...
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2010-04-30
Global MicroInsurance Summit, 30 June-1 July 2010, Paris, France
C5 is organizing the Global MicroInsurance Summit in Paris from 30 June until 1 July 2010. C5 is a think tank, based in London, staffed by industry and country specialists; lawyers and other professionals. It is monitoring trends and ...
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2010-04-22
ATELIER D'INFORMATION SUR LE REGLEMENT COMMUNAUTAIRE DE LA MUTUALITE SOCIALE DANS L'ESPACE UEMOA
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Le Ministère de la Famille, de la Femme et des Affaires Sociales (MFFAS) de Côte d’Ivoire à travers sa Direction de la Sécurité Sociale et de la Mutualité (DSSM),organise en collaboration ...
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2010-04-07
First University Course on Microinsurance started at University of Cologne - October 2009
The first university course about microinsurance in developing countries, focussing on Micro Health Insurance in Africa, is being implemented since October 2009 at University of Cologne. The teaching modules, developed in the scope of the ...
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2010-04-07
International Conference: Enabling Microinsurance Markets. Overcoming the challenges for the insurance industry, regulators and supervisors • 3 May 2010, Berlin, Germany
The Conference gathers insurers, insurance regulators and supervisors and development experts to share views on the challenges these stakeholders have been facing in making insurance markets more inclusive, and the impact some good practices ...
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2010-03-24
