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Partners of The Access to Insurance Initiative

 

The Access to Insurance Initiative

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 The Initiative is a global programme to

  • strengthen the capacity and understanding of insurance supervisors, regulators and policymakers,
  • facilitate their role as key drivers in expanding access to insurance markets, and
  • support the implementation of sound policy, regulatory and supervisory frameworks consistent with international standards.

The goal of the Access to Insurance Initiative is to enhance broad-based, demand-oriented and sustainable access to insurance for low-income clients; thereby growing financial inclusion in the insurance sphere.

This website provides information on the Initiative and its sponsors and disseminates all knowledge on microinsurance that is created within the Initiative. more

 

What is microinsurance

Microinsurance is insurance that is accessed by low-income population, provided by a variety of different entities, but run in accordance with generally accepted insurance practices. Importantly this means that the risk insured under a microinsurance policy is managed based on insurance principles and funded by premiums.
Microinsurance covers an extreme broad variety of services like, for example, life insurance, health, invalidity, cattle breeding, crop and asset insurance.

High-level Seminar on Microinsurance Regulation for Supervisory Authorities

On May 30-31, 2012, the African Insurance Organization (AIO), the Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii), and the programme Promoting Financial Sector Dialogue in Africa: Making Finance Work for Africa (GIZ/MFW4A) host a High-level Seminar on Microinsurance Regulation for Insurance Supervisors in Khartoum, Sudan.
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Henry Yan - Building the right regulatory environment to upscale microinsurance

In this interview Henry Yan, the Executive Director of Access to Insurance Initiative, discusses the partnership between the Microinsurance Innovation Facility and his organization. The main difference, he explains, is that the Facility works on the micro level with insurance practitioners, whereas the Initiative works at the macro level, with insurance supervisors...
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