The health sub-group met for the first time at the annual meeting 2007 in Mumbai, India and agreed upon following objectives:
- Build visibility for health microinsurance and stress the specificity of the health microinsurance as compared to other microinsurance products;
- Identify knowledge gaps and try to produce evidence or fill the gaps through research and projects. The production of evidence will feed the policy debate and support advocacy towards policy makers and donors;
- Share and disseminate specific tools, best practices, information to give a concrete support to practitioners
The sub-group aims to find a model that encourages people to share, and perhaps identify incentives.
Next steps:
The health sub-group plans to identify specific activities and outputs for each objective, and then find one or two facilitators for each activity. The facilitators will chose the most appropriate collaborative mean(s) of communication and collaboration (e.g. face to face discussion and discussion list; workspace on the GIMI platform; online questionnaires feeding a common database) and then plan activities for 2008. Where possible, activities will be funded from existing resources of the sub-group members, although it may also be necessary to raise additional funds.
Contact: Valérie Schmitt-Diabatte