Health Microinsurance Schemes for the Poor

One of the most practical problems one can face while implementing a user fee-based healthcare service to the community is that many poor people would seek healthcare in credit because they will not have cash to pay, despite the lowest price offered to them. To counter such a situation, the NGO can introduce

Continue reading Health Microinsurance Schemes for the Poor

Grants for Research on Microinsurance Issues

The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF) has announced the availability of third round of research grants “on a competitive basis for academics, particularly from developing countries, to analyze various microinsurance issues. Besides answering key questions in the Facility’s research agenda” MIF has teamed up with the European Development Research Network

Continue reading Grants for Research on Microinsurance Issues

Microinsurance Innovation Facility’s Call for Expressions of Interests for Research Fellowships

The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF) in partnership with the European Development Research Network (EUDN) is inviting academics and researchers to submit expressions of interest for research fellowships. There are up to five research fellowships available and these will be awarded on a competitive basis.

The research fellows

Continue reading Microinsurance Innovation Facility’s Call for Expressions of Interests for Research Fellowships

The Principles of Microinsurance

The principles of microinsurance are:

(1)    Risk-sharing and Pooling of Resources: The main principle of any micro-insurance scheme is that a group’s (community) resources are pooled to share risks (such as health, death, pension, accidents etc) in order to organise protection directly for themselves.

(2)    Specified Risks Only: A

Continue reading The Principles of Microinsurance

What is Microinsurance?

Insurance is a kind of a financial service whereby clients pay a premium on regular basis in return for reimbursement at higher rate when a risk occurs.  In principle, it is one of the risk management tools to counter the losses suffered from a crisis.  It is a pool of resources developed by

Continue reading What is Microinsurance?

NGO Opportunities in Your Country

Upcoming Webinars




Submit an Opportunity