Microinsurance
www.microlinks.org/fs/insurance
While poor people often improve their financial positions with microcredit, they easily fall back into poverty as soon as they face a financial crisis such as the death of a breadwinner, payment of essential health care costs, or the loss of productive assets. Microinsurance can help low-income households better manage the many risks they face and protect their gains. Unlike microcredit, which initially depended on donors to bring significant pools of funds to develop, maintain and expand microfinance institutions, microinsurance is being pushed by the commercial insurance industry and has been expanding and evolving rapidly.
A loan officer enrolls a farmer in Opportunity International Bank of Malawi’s weather insurance program. Photo: OIBM |
USAID’s Microenterprise Development office seeks to provide information that helps explain the opportunities of microinsurance, the international lessons learned, and practical means for implementing microinsurance projects. To help meet these learning objectives, a Microinsurance Note series was developed to provide an introduction and overview of key topics in microinsurance with links to resources that allow for greater exploration. For more on this research, please click here.
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After Hours #19: Integrating MF and Health
After Hours #20: Insurance Simulation Game
After Hours #32: The Potential and Limitations of Index-based Weather Insurance: Mali and Peru
After Hours #9: Index-Based Insurance 
Altering Poverty Dynamics with Index Insurance: Northern Kenya's HSNP
amabrief08-08.pdf Publication Date 06/2009
Insuring the Never Before Insured: Explaining Index Insurance Through Financial Education Games
amabrief08-07.pdf Publication Date 06/2009
Asegurando A Los Que Nunca Estuvieron Asegurados: Explicando el Seguro por Indice a Traves de Juegos de Educacion Financiera
amabrief08-07-S.pdf Publication Date 06/2009
Pre-Feasibility Analysis: Index-based Weather Risk Transfer in Mali
PreFeasibilityAnalysis_MaliIndex.pdf Publication Date 02/2009
MD Overview: Microinsurance
Microinsurance_Overview.pdf Publication Date 05/2008
(MF and HIV/AIDS NOTE) Microinsurance for Markets Affected by HIV/AIDS
Microfinance and HIV-AIDS NOTE 3_Markets affected by HIV-AIDS.pdf Publication Date 04/2008
CGAP Microinsurance Newsletter
Publication Date periodical
(MicroInsurance Note) Visions of the Future of Microinsurance, and Thoughts on Getting There
MicroInsurance Note 9_Future of Microinsurance.pdf Publication Date 03/2008
FIELD Report No 2: Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children
FIELD Report No 2_Full.pdf Publication Date 02/2008
FIELD Brief No 3: Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children
FIELD Brief No 3_ES for Children.pdf Publication Date 02/2008
(MicroInsurance Note) Facilitating an Appropriate Regulatory and Supervisory Environment for Microinsurance
mInsuranceNote 8_Regulation and Supervision.pdf Publication Date 01/2008
Los resúmenes de la esquina de discusión sobre Microseguros
SC_20_spanish.pdf Publication Date 1/2008
(MicroInsurance Note) Partnerships: Microfinance Institutions and Commercial Partners
mInsurance_Note_3_Partnerships with MFIs.pdf Publication Date 01/2007
(MicroInsurance Note) What is Microinsurance
mInsurance_Note_1.pdf Publication Date 10/2006
(MicroInsurance Note) How is Microinsurance Delivered
mIcroinsurance_Note 2 _Delivery Channels.pdf Publication Date 12/2006
(microREPORT) Guidelines for Market Research on the Demand for Microinsurance
mR 69 Market Research on Microinsurance Demand.pdf Publication Date 06/2006
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