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Microinsurance and Health Financing

Microinsurance refers to the provision of insurance to lower-income households. If appropriately designed and intermediated, insurance products can play an important role in reducing vulnerability for low-income households as well as presenting profitable markets for commercial insurance providers. In addition, ensuring well-functioning health financing systems is a critical element of development policy and the delivery of health services.

We’ve done extensive work on the regulation and development of microinsurance and health financing markets in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

The Latest in Microinsurance and Health Financing
5 lessons for designing fit-for-purpose health microinsurance
Gakere is a 49-year-old mechanic from Nairobi, and like 77% of adults in Kenya, he does not have National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) or private [...]
31 January 2023
The role of different partners for effective MSME insurance
Insurers can partner with digital platforms, lenders and insurance aggregators to offer better products that matter for MSMEs.   Despite being [...]
24 May 2022
Upscaling mobile-based health insurance in Kenya
Britam and M-TIBA receive Swiss Capacity Building Facility (SCBF) funding to scale up mobile-based health insurance Britam and M-TIBA have [...]
23 November 2021
The complexity of partnering to provide microinsurance
A case study on Turaco and Fenix International in Uganda  Generally, health insurance has a very low uptake across Africa. According to [...]
19 November 2021
FSD Africa’s Impact report
Between 2012 and early 2020, FSD Africa, supported by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, reached over 5.47 million people and [...]
20 November 2020
Managing risks (more) effectively: Rethinking insurance for MSMEs 
MSMEs form the backbone of many economies globally and give rise to economic growth, employment and innovation. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis [...]
5 November 2020
Microinsurance Network Annual Report 2019
International concern about the impacts of climate change and natural disasters has brought the insurance community together to build resilience and [...]
8 July 2020
Health insurtechs: from incremental digitisation to full digital ecosystems
Health – and the welfare implications of illness – has rarely been more front of mind than in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic As a [...]
6 May 2020
Insurtech Tracker
The rise of insurtechs in emerging markets In light of the insurtech trends, Cenfri wanted to understand to what extent insurtechs in emerging [...]
16 June 2019
10 years, eight trends: Where does microinsurance go from here?
8 trends that will shape the future of microinsurance As Cenfri and the ILO's Impact Insurance Facility turn 10, they reflect on the last decade of [...]
5 November 2018
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