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Aligning incentives: balancing customer value with distribution costs
How much should you pay to distribute your microinsurance product to balance customer value with appropriate incentives for distribution players? At our recent June Member Meeting (JMM), we heard meaningful insights on this topic from expert Network members from across the globe.
Surviving on rice: are farmers and workers getting a just portion?
The Asian rice production sector is worth hundreds of millions of dollars – yet most of the small-scale farmers and agricultural labourers who grow it live in extreme poverty. Can insurance help them achieve a fairer share of the value chain?
Steep learning curve: building microinsurance products in the Philippines
Building microinsurance products for low-income customers is not as simple as was once believed. Pioneer Life CEO Lorenzo Chan reflects on Pioneer’s journey – understanding the target market, gauging customer needs, and what it means to go beyond just the business case.
MiN & Members: Events
- MiN: June Member Meeting 2021 – Staying the distance | Watch session recordings (members only)
- Inclusive Insurance in the Central and Eastern Europe and the Transcaucasian (CEET) region | 1-2 September 2021 | Register now
- ICII 2021 – Digital Edition: Save the Date 25-29 October 2021
- ADA: Save the date - African Microfinance Week 2021 | 18-22 October 2021 in Kigali, Rwanda
- a2ii-IAIS public-private dialogue on women’s access to insurance | watch webinar recording
- European Microfinance Week 2021 to be held virtually from 17-19 November
- Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development Summit 2021 | Download presentations from event
- ICMIF: Impacting the SDGs through mutual microinsurance | watch webinar recording
- ILO’s Impact Insurance Facility: “Inclusive insurance for SMEs” – online training | 30 August-1 September 2021 | Register now (deadline: 26 August)
MiN & Members: News, Blogs, Jobs & Resources
- Landscape 2020: all 30 country profiles now available!
- ADA & Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation release 6th round of survey results on the effects of COVID-19 on MFIs around the world
- APA Insurance: Climate change, sustainability and the promise of inclusive insurance
- Britam: The importance of property insurance for MSMEs
- Cenfri announces partnership for digital transformation programme in Rwanda
- Cenfri is looking for a Digital Products Innovation Research Manager | Deadline: 9 July | Apply now!
- Democrance: CEO & Founder Michele Grosso recounts his career path on the Rise Project Podcast
- DHAN Foundation: Insurance literacy for tribal India
- Etherisc & ACRE Africa: Use of blockchain to improve microinsurance among farmers in Africa
- Fundación PROFIN brings insurance to construction workers in Bolivia
- GIZ looking for Advisor in Sustainable Finance | Apply by 30 June!
- IDF & Micro Insurance Company published in the CII’s annual publication
- ILO’s Fellowship Programme – call for applications open for potential placements in Africa and Asia | Deadline: 25 July | Apply now
- Micro Insurance Company and VisionFund introduce new health and life insurance product in Tanzania
- Microinsurance Master & Radiant Yacu share on customer-centricity in MI during AFR webinar series
- MSC: Vietnam’s changing digital landscape: The transformation of FinTechs to super apps in the time of COVID-19
- Radiant Yacu CEO Ovia Tuhairwe makes appearance on Africa InsurTech Rising Podcast
- SCBF: Annual Report 2020
- US joins InsuResilience Global Partnership
- WFP: Support for an integrated and inclusive social protection system
- WFP: R4 Rural Resilience Initiative 2020 Annual Report
- Women’s World Banking: Hospital cash: a game-changer for enabling financial inclusion in the post-Covid economy – but how can it be commercially viable?
Premium: Country briefing notes
Check out insights from Brazil – available in English, Portuguese and Spanish! Every month, members will have access to new premium content, so stay tuned for more country briefing notes which accompany our Landscape of Microinsurance Study 2020 and the respective country workshops organised this year.
Publications/Resources/Blogs
- AFI: Digital Financial Literacy
- Center for Financial Inclusion & e-MFP - Weathering the storm II: Tales of survival from microfinance crises past
- CGAP - Time is money: Financial services can help rural women save more of it
- GSMA: Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021 released
Elsewhere in the sector...
- FloodFlash’s parametric flood insurance
- How insurance can support a more sustainable India
- How an Ethiopian MFI has kept its focus on savings in the face of great challenges
- International Day of Family Remittances 2021
- Mercy Corps Agrifin: The impact of digital services on women smallholder farmers
- OKO is looking for a Country Manager in Mali