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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.

Knowledge update

  • Report

    Facility partners meet to share lessons and successes - (pdf 1,5 MB)

    The Facility's partners came together in Dar es Salaam to learn from each other's experiences and achievements. See the report to find out more about the main lessons which emerged on the forum's theme: "achieving scale through innovative and efficient distribution".

  • Publication

    Selling more, selling better: A microinsurance sales force development study - (pdf 592 KB)

    Briefing note nº14, ILO, December 2012
    Adequate recruitment, training, incentives, and monitoring of a sales force are indispensable for selling microinsurance effectively. This briefing note summarizes lessons to improve performance throughout these four areas.

  • Learning Journey

    Mapping microinsurance in India

    The Centre for Insurance and Risk Management explains how it set about creating a comprehensive information portal on the Indian microinsurance market. Find out more about the challenges it faced, including the lack of a common definition of microinsurance.

What's new

  • Need a microinsurance expert?

    The Facility's registry of consultants is growing, with 68 microinsurance experts across four continents. Browse the registry to find a suitable consultant for your project, or contact us to send details of your requirements to the list.
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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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Last update: 20.12.2012 ^ top