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− | ICMIF
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− | International Cooperative &
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− | Mutual Insurance Federation
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− | www.icmif.org
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− | Key points
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− | • About ICMIF
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− | • Linkage with Takaful concept
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− | • Avenues for collaboration
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− | • The development function of ICMIF
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− | • Importance of insurance to poverty alleviation
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− | • Providing microinsurance products
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− | • The need and possibilities in Muslim
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− | countries
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− | About ICMIF
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− | • Established in 1922
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− | • Not-for-profit voluntary trade association
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− | • Represents 127 members from 67 countries
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− | • Member driven
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− | • “Strengthen and promote the cooperative and
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− | mutual insurance sector”
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− | Linkage with Takaful concept
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− | • Policyholders co-operate among themselves
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− | for their common good
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− | • Every policyholder pays his subscription to
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− | help those that need assistance
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− | • Losses are divided and liabilities spread
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− | according to the community pooling system
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− | • It does not derive advantage at the cost of
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− | others
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− | Avenues for collaboration
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− | • Reinsurance
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− | • Information
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− | • Training
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− | • Establishing Takaful windows with members
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− | • Development
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− | ICMIF development function
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− | • Objectives
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− | Provide support to small members
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− | Assist cooperative bodies to establish
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− | insurance operations
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− | Increase access to insurance to excluded
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− | sectors of society
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− | ICMIF development function
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− | • Methodology
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− | ICMIF Fees
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− | Technical expertise provided by members
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− | Development projects led by members
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− | Partnerships with national and international
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− | donor agencies
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− | ICMIF development function
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− | • Progress
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− | Established 25 people-orientated insurance
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− | organisations
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− | Unique Insurance Company – Ghana
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− | Financial support received for Latin America
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− | Contract to write guidelines on microinsurance
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− | Turkmenistan – State Insurance Organisation
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− | Health Mutual scheme – Mali
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− | Currently involved in 22 countries
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− | “Insurance is being
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− | recognized as an
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− | important tool for
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− | poverty alleviation”
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− | Insurance and Poverty Alleviation
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− | • The poor are the most vulnerable
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− | • The impact of losses are more severe
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− | • They have minimum means of recovery
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− | • Success of microfinance schemes show the
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− | poor can and want to save
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− | • Savings and credit are used unproductively
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− | • The poor need a safety net to escape poverty
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− | Providing microinsurance
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− | The challenges
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− | • Coverage
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− | • Regulation
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− | • Moral hazard and Fraud
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− | • Adverse selection
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− | • Education and trust
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− | • Technical expertise
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− | • Affordability
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− | • Retention
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− | • Sustainability
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− | Providing microinsurance
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− | The possibilities
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− | • The cooperative microinsurance model
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− | History of organising the poor
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− | Operate for the interest of members by
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− | members
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− | Trust
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− | Ownership and loyalty
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− | Peer pressure
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− | Surplus reinvested or redistributed
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− | Providing microinsurance
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− | • The partner agent model
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− | No-risk fee for microinsurance provider
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− | Better coverage for policyholder
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− | Access to new market
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− | Pooling of risks between informal and formal
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− | sector
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− | Providing microinsurance
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− | • The donor agent model
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− | Access to expertise
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− | Financial sustainability
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− | Guiding hand
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− | The need in Muslim countries
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− | • Social services inadequate or unavailable
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− | • Large sectors of poverty in many Muslim
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− | countries
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− | • Over half of world’s lowest developed countries
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− | have a majority Muslim population
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− | • Increasing inequality in Middle East and Gulf
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− | countries
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− | “Takaful is the second
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− | most important social
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− | institution to counter
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− | poverty and
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− | deprivation”
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− | Omar Fisher,1999
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− | How can we provide microtakaful
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− | products?
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− | • Establish informal microtakaful schemes
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− | • Encouragement of pro-poor organisations
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− | • Education of government and donor agencies
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− | • Involvement of Takaful sector
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− | Technical expertise
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− | Financial assistance
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− | Partner-agent model
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− | “Bear ye one another’s burden”
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− | A Global reach for
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− | local strength
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− | Thank you for your attention
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