Prosper (Issue No. 2)

Publication Date: 2007
Published by: International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF)
Document Type: Newsletter (PDF)

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This newsletter provides the latest news on global developments in microinsurance.

This newsletter profiles various activities of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance federation (ICMIF) and its members.

The newsletter provides information on:

• The health plan market in Brazil, where insurance companies partner with medical cooperatives to spread the insurance culture;
• The advantages of the Benenden insurer/provider model;
• The launch of Sankat Haran Bima Yojan, an insurance for farmers, by IFFKO Tokio General Insurance Co. Ltd. in India;
• Extension of mutual insurance by MACIF in Mali and India;
• Recent activities of Sanasa Insuarnce Company;
• The hosting of CARD MBA, Philippines, by NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative Limited;
• An innovative two-day development workshop that ICMIF held in Quebec;
• Approval of a funding request from Tajy, Paraguay;
• Large scale expansion in membership of SEWA;
• The ICMF Development Session in Brussels;
• The provision of “microtakaful” in Indonesia, and a presentation on it at the First Asian Conference on Microinsurance;
• The second meeting of the Latin American Reinsurance Group, which explored various areas of cooperation;
• The regulation and supervision of microinsurance;
• The rise of mutual benefit associations (MBAs) in the Philippines.

The newsletter also contains an interview with Ellis Wohlner on a recipe for successful microinsurance.