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International Conference: Enabling Microinsurance Markets. Overcoming the challenges for the insurance industry, regulators and supervisors • 3 May 2010, Berlin, Germany
The Conference gathers insurers, insurance regulators and supervisors and development experts to share views on the challenges these stakeholders have been facing in making insurance markets more inclusive, and the impact some good practices ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2010-03-24
Call For Nominations: Social Protection Floor success stories
 Sharing Innovative Experiences : Promoting knowledge sharing in the SouthCALL FOR NOMINATIONS: SOCIAL PROTECTION FLOOR SUCCESS STORIESDeadline for submission: Wednesday 31 March 2010 The International Labour Organization (ILO) and ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2010-03-04
High-level special event on South-South cooperation on the Social Protection Floor Initiative - February 2010
In conjunction with the 48th Session of the Commission for Social Development, it is a pleasure to inform that the Special Unit for South South Cooperation, the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization are sponsoring ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2010-01-28
Health and social protection: Experiencies from Cambodia, China and Lao PDR
Health and social protection: Experiencies from Cambodia, China and Lao PDR, B. Meessen, X. Pei, B. Criel and G. Bloom, eds, 2008.This book addresses the challenge of applying social protection concepts to health. It explores the ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-06-29
China Life Insurance Company Limited continues to expand rural micro life insurance pilot project
On May 12, 2009, China Life Insurance Company announced that it would continue to expand rural micro life insurance pilot project this year. The goal is to cover more than 6 million low-income people in rural area and to collect premiums over ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-05-21
The 3rd Asian Conference on Microinsurance will be held in July at Bejing
Following the success of the last two conferences in Philippines and India, the 3rd Asian Conference on Microinsurance, which will be held at Beijing, China during 22 and 23 July 2009, will focus on the theme of  “Micro insurance as ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-05-20
Health and social protection: experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao PDR
The POVILL project was designed to both contribute to ongoing efforts to design policy responses to the challenge of sickness-related poverty and contribute to efforts to develop a systematic understanding of healthpoverty linkages and the role ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-05-15
Experience on Abhaya Hastham shared by Indian government at recent World Bank Seminar
AMIN secretary
Recently in a seminar held by the South Asia Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, and the Insurance for the Poor Program in the Financial and Private Sector Development of the World Bank, Andhra Pradesh (India) government shared its ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-04-24
Implementation Plan of China Health Care System Reform (2009-2011)
In April 2009, five programs on deepening the China Health Care System Reform are issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council with input of about 124 billion U.S. dollars from year 2009 to ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-04-21
New programme "Access to Insurance Initiative" (A2II)
ILO/STEP has recently joined a new programme called "Access to Insurance Initiative" (A2II) together with the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and Microinsurance Network.The A2II is made up of several partners ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-04-09
Bill on Social Security for Unorganized Sector Workers Passed in India
New Delhi. On 18 December, the Lok Sabha, one of the two chambers of the Indian Parliament, passed the "Unorganized Sector Workers' Social Security Bill," which aims at building a social security system for unorganized workers. The ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-19
Extension of social security to BPL workers. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Planning Situation
Within the framework of the new Minimum Social Security Programme targeting unorganized workers, the Government of India released the guidelines to the implementation of a new health insurance scheme called Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-06
The International Social Security Review published an article by Jens Schremmer (ILO), Alain Coheur (AIM), Christian Jacquier (ILO) and Valérie Schmitt-Diabaté (ILO) on the extension of health care coverage
An article written by Jens Schremmer (ILO), Alain Coheur (AIM), Christian Jacquier (ILO) and Valérie Schmitt Diabaté (ILO) - "Extending health care coverage: Potential linkages between statutory social security and community-based ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-05
Co-contributory Pension scheme (MicroPension) in INDIA by State Government of Andhra Pradesh for 12 Million Self Help Groups (SHG) women
Ramesh Kumar Maturi
The state Government of Andhra Pradesh (India) has announced a new scheme implemented in February 2009 by the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) for over 12 Million SHG women (age group of 18-55 years). The scheme is a statewide ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-03
New Resource online. Health Insurance In Low-Income Countries: Where Is The Evidence That It Works?
Joint NGO Briefing Paper: Oxfam International, Action for Global Health, Médecins du Monde, Save the Children UK, Plan, Global Health Advocates, Act Up Paris, 2008This joint NGO briefing paper provides a critical ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
Setting social security standards in a global society
An analysis of the present state and practice and of future options for global social security standard setting at the International Labour OrganisationIn its new series Social Security Policy Briefings, the Social Security ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
Platform For Health Insurance For The Poor (HIP)
Platform for Health Insurance for the Poor (HIP) aims to bring together expertise in health care and health insurance in developing countries, both through the platform itself and through regular meetings.The idea of ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
E-discussion on safe motherhood in India
As part of the "Safe Motherhood Month" activities in April, Solution Exchange also launched a discussion on the issue of involving elected representatives in the fight to improve maternal health and ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
E-Discussion: Reducing Maternal Mortality Through Increased Access To Safe Abortions In India
In February 2008 participants in the Solution Exchange Maternal and Child Health Community discussion group shared their reflections and experiences on the question of reducing maternal mortality through the improvement ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
Cost of illness: Evidence from a study in five resource-poor locations in India
David M. Dror , Olga van Putten-Rademaker and Ruth Koren. InIndian Journal of Medical Research, April 2008Background & Objectives: In India, health services are funded largely through out-of-pocket spending (OOPS). The ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
Social Protection Virtual Campus Launched At The ILC: 9 June 2008, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland
Based on advanced technology in the field of distance learning, the Virtual Campus was launched on the 9th June during the 97th Session of the International Labour Conference. This electronic ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
ILO Asia-Pacific Regional High Level Meeting On Socially-Inclusive Strategies To Extend Social Security Coverage: 19-20 May 2008, New Delhi, India
This High Level Regional Meeting brought together representatives of Governments, Workers and Employers with the aim of reviewing the range of strategies pursued by the 21 participant countries in view of achieving ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
ILO applauds India's effort to increase social security coverage
At the Asia-Pacific Regional High-Level meeting on strategies to extend social security coverage organized by the ILO which took place on the 19th and 20th May in New Delhi, the ILO praised India's efforts to extend social security coverage ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
Intellecap's Microfinance Insights Magazine Volume 5 : Focus On Microinsurance
"Mitigating risks for the poor" in Focus on Microinsurance", Microfinance Insights, Vol. 5, December 2007, Intellecap"Microfinance Insights" devotes this volume to Microinsurance. The magazine contains ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
MGEN, IE and AIM LAUNCH an Education and Solidarity Network
Three organisations concerned with the development, coordination and strengthening of solidarity-based social protection systems; IE (Education International), AIM (International Association of Mutual Benefit ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
New Resource online: Performance Indicators for Micro-insurance
John Wipf and Denis Garand, 2008This handbook provides some principles and key indicators for the evaluation of microinsurance performance irrespective of the approach of the scheme (e.g. social-protection or ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
New Resource online: Extension of Social Security to BPL Workers. Rashtrya Swasthya Bima Yojana Planning Situation
Extension of Social Security - Discussion Paper Series, 2006-2015 Asian Decent Work Decade, ILO Sub-regional Office for South Asia, 2008Within the framework of the new Minimal Social Security Programme ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-03-02
Is A Social Security Floor Affordable? 15 May 2008, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland
In his presentation at the 26th Decent Work Forum, organized by the ILO's Policy Integration Department, Michael Cichon - Director of the ILO's Social Security Department- stressed that social security is not only a human right but also a ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-02-25
Micro Insurance Academy (MIA) & Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) Join Hands To Promote Cooperative-Based Micro Health Insurance
In May of this year, the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) and the Micro Insurance Academy (MIA) conducted a Promoter Training exercise as part of an exciting new project to bring micro health insurance to poor communities ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-02-24
The World Bank creates the "Insurance for the Poor" program
The "Insurance for the Poor" (IfP) Program has been recently established within the Financial and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency of the World Bank. The Program follows a market ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-02-24
HEALTH PROTECTION NEEDS ASSESMENT SURVEY IN SRI LANKA
In Sri Lanka, large parts of the population are left without any kind of protection against social risks. Recognizing that microfinance could be used as an efficient tool to fight poverty, the country has already built ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-02-23
AMIN INFOSHEET ABOUT MICRO INSURANCE PROGRAMMES IN ASIA
A whole collection of two page long infosheets about different micro-insurance programmes in Asia has been added to the GIMI library. The briefs on the left of the infosheets describe the schemes - eligibility conditions, ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-02-23
India: Extension of Social Security to BPL Workers - Rashtrya Swasthya Bima Yojana Planning Situation
The present document, prepared under CLASS initiative, provides an overview of the main features and operational mechanisms of the health insurance scheme that the Indian government will implement. It also assesses its ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-02-23
Over 400 million peasants joining China's rural cooperative medical scheme
Health equity is an issue that worries China's public health policy makers. The country's spectacular economic growth has been accompanied by a "slow down of improvements in population health and a rise in health inequalities," said ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-02-23
New developments for the Micro Insurance Academy (MIA)
During the last quarter of 2008, the Micro Insurance Academy (MIA) implemented new ambitious projects, aimed at providing community based Micro Health Insurance to more than 100,000 people in three districts of Orissa in India with a new ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2009-01-22
New Market Research Report by RNCOS
RNCOS has recently added a new Market Research Report titled, 'Booming Insurance Market in India (2008-2011)' to its report gallery. With a huge population base and large untapped market, insurance industry is a big opportunity area in ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-12-12
Need for dignified sanitation
Article written by ALEX GEORGE ARTICLE ISSUED IN THE HINDU, Online edition of India's National NewspaperSunday, Nov 16, 2008More than eight per cent of deaths in India are due to water and sanitation-related causes. ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-12-02
Need for dignified sanitation
ALEX GEORGE has written an article on the Need for dignified sanitation in India. To read more about this article, which was issued in The HINDU, the Online edition of India's National Newspaper on Sunday, Nov 16, 2008, click ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-12-02
FIRST round of GRANTS for RESEARCH on MICROINSURANCE
The Microinsurance Innovation Facility and the European Development Research Network (EUDN) invite academic researchers to submit proposals for research that will contribute new knowledge to support ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-11-28
NEWS FROM BISWA
BISWA, the Bharatiya Integrated Social Welfare Agency operating in India, has been able to bring smiles to the faces of members of its Self Help Group (SHG). Indeed these people have been seriously affected by the ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-10-24
Inventory of microinsurance schemes in Asia
The Asia Micro Insurance Network launched the online inventory for Asian community based health insurance schemes. AMIN is a membership based network and is open to all organizations and ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-09-22
The Yeshasvini Workspace
Yeshasvini Health Scheme is an innovative healthcare scheme enabling members of the rural co-operative societies of Karnataka and their families to access quality healthcare. It is designed on a public-private ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-09-18
Rajasthan's Vishwakarma Contributory Pensions Yojana for the Unorganised sector workers
Please click on the following link to read an article about this scheme in an Indian business magazine,Business Standard.   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-09-18
The AMIN Brochure Is Now Available
The Asian Micro-Insurance Network has recently issued a brochure. The brochure briefly presents the network's background, describes its vision, mission, objectives, activities and what has been achieved so far relating to ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-09-15
Second Reinsurance School - Reinsurance For Micro Insurance Schemes: 15-17 October 2008, New Delhi, India
The Micro Insurance Academy will hold the "2nd Reinsurance School for Microinsurance Schemes" this October. The Reinsurance School is designed for managers of community based micro insurance schemes, micro insurance promoters and ...   More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-09-05
AMIN brochure
The AMIN brochure is available; please click here     More info >>
 
Posted: 2008-06-17
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