6th

International
Microinsurance
Conference

9–11 November 2010

Hotel Intercontinental
Manila, Philippines

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9 November
2010
8:00 Registration
8:30 Pre-conference seminar 1 Pre-conference seminar 2
Regulation, supervision and policy Performance indicators
Exhibition Hosted by IAIS/MiN Joint Working Group Hosted by MiN-Performance Indicators Working Group

Facilitator Facilitators
10:30 Coffee break Brigitte Klein Véronique Faber
Head of Sector Project Financial Systems Development, GTZ, Secretariat Coordinator, Microinsurance Network, Luxemburg
Germany
Denis Garand
President, Denis Garand and Assoc., Canada

By invitation only By invitation only

Contact: info@access-to-insurance.org Contact: info@microinsurancenetwork.org
12:30 Lunch Lunch
9 November
2010
14:00 Opening

Exhibition Welcome address

Craig Churchill
Chairman of the Microinsurance Network, ILO/Microinsurance
Innovation Facility, Switzerland

Thomas Loster
Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany

Cesar V. Purisima
Secretary of Finance, Philippines

Keynote speech
Benigno Aquino, President of the Philippines (TBC)

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Plenary 1
Institutional options for achieving scale and profitability –
lessons from the Philippines
Exhibition Jamie Aristotle Alip
Chairman Emeritus, Rimansi, Philippines
Cooperative model
Richard Leftley
President and CEO, MicroEnsure, UK
Broker-model
Elmo A. Nobleza (TBC)
COCOLIFE, Philippines
Partner-agent model

Facilitator
Doubell Chamberlain
Managing Director, Cenfri, South Africa
18:30 Meet and Greet Reception

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10 November
2010
8:30 Parallel session 1 Parallel session 2 Parallel session 3 Parallel session 4
Developing national microinsurance strategies – The Academic track – Demand issues Case studies – Agriculture Workshop – Introduction to good practice in
example of the Philippines microinsurance
Exhibition Opening remarks Facilitator
(TBC) Jing Cai Francesco Rispoli Denis Garand
Insurance Commissioner, Philippines UC Berkeley, USA Technical Adviser, IFAD, Italy President, Denis Garand and Assoc., Canada
Determinants of micro-insurance adoption – Evidence from a The potential for scale and sustainability in weather index (This session is intended for people new to the topic of
field experiment in rural China insurance microinsurance)
Gil S. Beltran Arun Chandrasekhar Anapuma Sharma
Under-Secretary, Department of Finance, Philippines MIT, USA Consultant, CIRM, India
Public-private-partnerships – The process of the formulation of Informal Insurance, social ties, and financial development – 90,000 livestock in Vizianagaram – A case study on addressing
strategies Evidence from a lab experiment in the field in India moral hazard and transaction cost through a community based
livestock insurance scheme
Vida Chiong Andrew Zeitlin
Deputy Commissioner, Insurance Commission, Philippines University of Oxford
Overview of the microinsurance policy and regulatory regime Education, prices and peers in the promotion of composite
microinsurance – Evidence from a randomised controlled trial
in Kenya
Eiichi Sasaki
Senior Financial Sector Specialist, ADB, Philippines
Role of the ADB in the development process of the national
microinsurance strategy
Antonis Malagardis
Project Manager, GTZ-MIPSS, Philippines
Role of the GTZ in the development process of the national
microinsurance strategy

Facilitator Facilitator Facilitator

Piedad S. Geron Richard Phillips Gabriele Ramm
Consultant, Philippines Chair of the Risk Management and Insurance Department, Consultant to GTZ, Germany
Georgia State University, USA
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Plenary 2
Roundtable – Responses from the private sector in the
Philippines
Exhibition Geraldine Desiderio-Garcia
Chair Microinsurance Committee - PLIA
Chair, PLIA, Philippines
Michael Rellosa
President, PIRA, Philippines
Fermin Gonzales
President, CLIMBS, Philippines
Rolando Victoria
Executive Director, ASKI, Philippines
Lalaine Joyas
Executive Director, MCPI, Philippines

Facilitator
Danilo Songco
Executive Director, PinoyMe Foundation, Philippines
12:30 Lunch Lunch

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10 November
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14:00 Parallel session 5 Parallel session 6 Parallel session 7 Parallel session 8
New distribution channels Protecting the poor against natural disasters Client education – Insurance literacy Life insurance
Hosted by the MiN-Insurance Education Working Group
Exhibition Part 1: Case studies Part 1: Case studies Part 1: Case studies Part 1: Case studies
Anja Smith Devabalan Rajagopalan Aurore Lambert Rob Rucsoni
Director, Cenfri, South Africa Programme Leader, CARE, India Project Manager, GRET, Cambodia Researcher, Tres Consulting, South Africa
Introduction to new distribution channels Property insurance for protecting poor against natural disaster Insurance literacy for factory workers Savings and insurance – Lessons from the leaders

Barbara Magnoni Olivier Barrau Viviene Pearson Martin Hintz

President, EA Consultants, USA
Understanding Global Migration and Remittances
Huijing Yang
Division Manager, PICC, China
Case study on channel establishment of microinsurance
project in PICC
Mariana Torres de Urquidi
CEO, AIC, Haiti Manager, Image & reputation, SAIA, South Africa Consultant, Allianz Life, Indonesia
Lessons learnt from the 2010 earthquake What works and what does not – Practical experience from the The 65 million dollar baby – A micro-endowment success story
South African Insurance Association
Jiang Tong (TBC)
Chief Scientist, National Climate Center, China Pioneer Life Insurance, Philippines
Weather index-based insurance in China – The challenges of Experience from implementing microinsurance in the
dealing with data Philippines

Head of Microinsurance Business, Banco Compartamos,

Mexico
To every challenge there is an innovative solution for
sustainable microinsurance products
Part 2: Workshop Part 2: Workshop – challenges and solutions for Part 2: Workshop Part 2: Workshop on Max Vijay case (India)
index–insurance
Peter Maina (TBC) Michal Matul Abhinav Rahul (TBC)
Global Index Insurance Facility, USA Research Officer, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, VP, Max New York Life, India
Switzerland
Thomas Mahl Aparna Dalal
Innovative Solutions Manager, Munich Re of Singapore, Independent Researcher, USA
Singapore
Developing meso-scale solutions to protect the poor – A
reinsurer's perspective
Richard Leftley
President and CEO, MicroEnsure, UK
Pitfalls of index-insurance
Facilitator Facilitator Facilitator Facilitator
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Michael M C d Th
Thomas L Loster
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Craig
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Churchill
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President, Microinsurance Centre, USA Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany Chairman, Microinsurance Academy, India Chairman of the Microinsurance Network, ILO/Microinsurance
Innovation Facility, Switzerland
18:30 Dinner

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11 November
2010
8:30 Parallel session 9 Parallel session 10 Parallel session 11 Parallel session 12
Driving down cost – Process mapping for increasing Developing national microinsurance strategies Academic track – Impact of microinsurance Workshop on social performance indicators
efficiency in microinsurance business processes

Exhibition Hosted by MiN-Performance Indicators Working Group

Roland Steinmann Brigitte Klein Seyed Hamid Anton Simanowitz
Consultant, Microinsurance Centre, USA Head of Sector Project Financial Systems Development, GTZ, Assistant professor, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Programme Manager, IDS, UK
Germany
Introduction to process mapping Access to insurance initiative – Creating an enabling Evaluating the health effects of micro health insurance Social performance indicators for microinsurance
environment for microinsurance placement – Evidence from Bangladesh
Discussants
Hanna Schommer Lemmy Manje Daniel Stein Shailabh Kumar
Financial Systems Development Adviser, GTZ, Ghana Project Coordinator, ILO/Finmark Trust, Zambia London School of Economics, UK General Manager, Uplift India Assoc., India
Lessons learnt from providing technical assistance on process Multi-sector stakeholder engagement and local ownership – Paying premiums with the insurer's money – Insurance
optimization Microinsurance development strategy and process in Zambia decisions in a repeated interaction

Edmund Diamond Addo Christine Hougaard Tilak Mukhopadhyay Brandon Mathews

Head of Operations, Donewell Life, Ghana Consultant, Cenfri, South Africa Consultant, CIRM/IFMR, India Head of Microinsurance, Zurich, Switzerland
Experience from the application of the mapping toolkit A winning strategy? Notes on the country experience so far in Impact evaluation of health microinsurance through RCT – Two
developing microinsurance interventions targeting better renewal rates and health
outcomes

Facilitator Facilitator Facilitator Facilitator

Michael McCord Doubell Chamberlain Dean Karlan (TBC) Bert Opdebeeck
President, Microinsurance Centre, USA Managing Director, Cenfri, South Africa Professor of Economics, Yale University, USA Microinsurance Programme Co-ordinator, Belgian Raiffeisen
Foundation, Belgium
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Plenary 3
Academic track – Do the poor benefit from insurance?

Exhibition Introduction
Dean Karlan (TBC)
Professor of Economics, Yale University, USA
Impact of microinsurance

Discussants
Glenn Harrison (TBC)
Director, CEAR/Georgia State University, USA
What is the research agenda needed to answer the question?

Jeremy Leach (TBC)

Principal – Group business development, Hollard Insurance,
South Africa
What does the industry need from the academics?

Facilitator
Richard Phillips
Chair of the Risk Management and Insurance Department,
Georgia State University, USA
12:30 Lunch Lunch

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11 November
2010
14:00 Parallel session 13 Parallel session 14 Parallel session 15 Parallel session 16
Case studies – Health Claims handling Academic track – Contract design issues Monitoring microinsurance trends globally

Exhibition Shailabh Kumar Tara Sinha Ruth Hill Rupalee Ruchismita

General Manager, Uplift India Assoc., India Coordinator for Knowledge Management, SEWA Social Research Fellow, IFPRI, USA Executive Director, CIRM, India
Security, India
Why community based health micro insurance makes better VimoSEWA's cashless hospitalization claim settlement system Flexible insurance for heterogeneous farmers – results from a Creating a national databank of rural and micro insurance
sense – Uplift's mutual model small scale pilot in Ethiopia products as an online map
Marcia Metcalfe Utpal Ray Ingo Outes-Leon Vijaysekar Kalavakonda
Director Microfinance and Health, Freedom from Hunger, USA Chairman, Track 4 infotec, India Oxford University, UK Senior Insurance Specialist, World Bank, USA

Linking the poor to social health insurance through MFI
partnerships – Updates from the Philippines and Ghana
Jennifer Hennig
Planning Officer, GTZ, Germany
Private companies as distribution channels to strengthen micro
health insurance schemes?
Use of technology in claims processing
Dubby Mahalanobis
Chief Product Officer, MicroEnsure, Uganda
Providing service to the poor – How to meet needs and
expectations through claims servicing
Insurance training and demand for group index-based Global microinsurance benchmark database
insurance in rural Ethiopia
Alexander Sarris
Professor, University of Athens, Greece
The impact of interlinked credit and index insurance contracts
on rural financial markets and small farm productivity in
Ethiopia

Facilitator Facilitator Facilitator Facilitator

Jeanna Holtz Dirk Reinhard Shadreck Mapfumo Véronique Faber
Senior Grant Officer, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Vice Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany VP Agriculture, MicroEnsure, South Africa Secretariat Coordinator, Microinsurance Network, Luxemburg
Switzerland
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Plenary 4
Round table – Is there profit serving the underserved?

Exhibition Introduction
Doug Lacey
Principal Consultant, Quindiem Consulting, South Africa
A business case for microinsurance – Findings from a study on
company experience

Discussants
Michael Anthony
Head of Microinsurance, Allianz, Germany
Brandon Mathews
Head of Microinsurance, Zurich, Switzerland
Rakesh Jain
CFO, ICICI Lombard General Insurance, India
Nelson Kuria
General Manager, CIC, Kenya
Helen Dee (TBC)
Chairwoman, Malayan, Philippines

Facilitator
Craig Churchill
Chairman of the Microinsurance Network, ILO/Microinsurance
Innovation Facility, Switzerland
18:00 Closing remarks

Véronique Faber
Secretariat Coordinator, Microinsurance Network, Luxemburg

Dirk Reinhard
Chairman of the Conference Steering Committee
Vice chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany
Next steps in microinsurance
18:30 End

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