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This section contains a set of tools providing an overview of what microinsurance is and its diversity around the world.
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MICROINSURANCE: A MECANISM TO MANAGE RISKS
A publication on the use of microinsurance as a tool for risk management in the context of social protection More info
MICROINSURANCE SCHEMES DATABASE
This database contains information on schemes worldwide. You can search information, update it and also add new schemes. More info
 
 
 
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  • What is a "microinsurance scheme"?
    It is a scheme that uses, among others, an insurance mechanism whose beneficiaries are (at ... More info
  • What risks are covered by microinsurance?
    Micro-insurance schemes can cover various risks (health, life, etc.). The most frequent ... More info
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  • The new key issues series on microinsurance: First Issue
    The Key issues series, launched by GIMI, consists of two-page texts that offer a ...   More info
  • Microinsurance Conference 2007: 13-15 November, Mumbai, India
    This event was the third International Microinsurance Conference, and was jointly hosted by ...   More info
» Library
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  • Association d'Entraide des Femmes, Benin
    Good and Bad Practices in Microinsurance, Case Study No. 22
    O. L. dit Guerin,  2006     More info...
  • Extension of social protection in India: the contribution of health micro-insurance schemes
    Technical Paper No. 1.2
    ILO SRO for South Asia,  ILO-STEP, CHSSS, Plan International ,  2006     More info...
  • Insurance products provided by insurance companies to the disadvantaged groups in India
    ILO-STEP,  2005     More info...
  • MicroInsurance Centre
    MicroInsurance Centre ,  2007     More info...
  • MicroInsurance Focus
    CGAP,  2007     More info...
  • Part III. Micro-insurance: a mechanism to manage risks
    ILO-STEP; GTZ,  2006     More info...
  • Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP)
    ILO-STEP,  2007     More info...
  • The Landscape of Microinsurance in the World's 100 Poorest Countries
    J. Roth, M.J. McCord, D. Lieber,  2007     More info...
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» Glossary
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  • community-based social protection mechanisms
    Community-based social protection mechanisms include: Institutions that directly administer a ... More info...
  • health micro-insurance (~ scheme) (HMIS)
    An insurance scheme – often set up by a civil society organization – whose ... More info...
  • risk
    Refers to the probability that an uncertain event will occur, and, by extension, to an ... More info...

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