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In 2013, the Facility is celebrating five years of pushing the frontier of innovation with a campaign to showcase lessons we've learned on how to make microinsurance work for both providers and clients.
Housed at the International Labour Organization's Social Finance Programme, the Microinsurance Innovation Facility seeks to increase the availability of quality insurance for the developing world's low-income families to help them guard against risk and overcome poverty.
The Facility was launched in 2008 with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to learn and promote how to extend better insurance to the working poor. Additional funding has gratefully been received from
several donors, including the
Z Zurich Foundation and
AusAID.
Product design
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Focusing on clients
Microinsurance products must offer two things: value for clients, and viability for the organizations that offer them. The ILO's Microinsurance Innovation Facility has spent 5 years working with organizations as they design and adapt products to achieve both of these. The Facility's partners have demonstrated that finding small but pivotal improvements is the key for products that work for clients and providers. Join us to explore product design throughout July.
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Join us for "Delivering on the promise of microinsurance: Putting clients first"
9th July 2013, New York
Join us in New York or via webinar to explore products that offer value for low-income people. Learn from pioneers about their efforts to offer quality products in a viable way. And explore the question: how does client-orientation contribute to the insurer's bottom line? Register here.
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Case Brief: SAJIDA Foundation - (pdf 1,02 MB)
Mary Yang and Alice Merry
SAJIDA has consistently found ways to improve the value of its product for clients. From faster claims to community health workers, find out how it uses the PACE tool to identify improvements.
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Beyond slogans: Good practices in promoting microinsurance products - (pdf 1,26 MB)
Nancy R. Lee and José Miguel Solana, Microinsurance paper n°22
Microinsurance providers continue to struggle to stimulate and sustain demand for their products. This paper provides a ten-step promotional planning model and examples of good practice, to inspire better promotion of microinsurance products.
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Find inspiration in the new promotion inventory
The Promotion Inventory catalogues promotional materials from microinsurance schemes. Search for radio/theatre scripts, videos, brochures, printed advertisements, and much more by using the filters. The inventory allows practitioners to learn and draw inspiration from others' promotional efforts. If you would like to share your materials, please email us at
microinsuranceknowledge@ilo.org.
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What's new
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The Facility launches its partnership with the Multilateral Investment Fund
The Facility is launching its new partnership with the Multilateral Investment Fund, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group. The partnership will mine the experiences of microinsurance projects that the two organizations have funded throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It aims to leverage these lessons to replicate successes and innovation across the region.
The Impact of Health Insurance Education on Enrollment of Microfinance Institution Clients in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme, Northern Region of Ghana - (pdf 1,26 MB)
Elizabeth Schultz, Marcia Metcalfe and Bobbi Gray, Research paper nº33
Despite the fact that national health insurance has been available in Ghana since 2003, the coverage is far from universal. This study evaluates a consumer education intervention for microfinance clients. Results suggest that the lack of knowledge may not the most important barrier to enrollment. Rather, it appears that convenience of registration and timing of premium payments were more common challenges faced by these individuals.Subscribe to our knowledge products
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The Facility's activities
The Facility has provided grants to develop innovations in the microinsurance sector. Click on the
Innovation grantees and on the Learning Journeys to get an overview of the projects that are implemented and of the good practices that are collected to eventually benefit the working poor. The Capacity Building Programme undertakes three main types of activities: Training and curriculum development, professional development and microinsurance project interventions. The
Research programme has an important role to play to consolidate existing knowledge and stimulate new learning to move the microinsurance agenda forward. The
Knowledge Management programme involves activities that focus on leveraging lessons learned from its partners and disseminating them widely to improve microinsurance practices.
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