The ILO's Impact Insurance Facility is helping the digitisation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana. By providing the initial funding, technical assistance and project management support, as well as conceptualising technological solutions, the Facility has enabled the piloting of a system that allows customer to use simple mobile phones or smartphones to renew their membership to the NHIS.

FIDES, the Federación Interamericana de Empresas de Seguros (Inter-American Federation of Insurance Companies) has been a member of the MiN since 2014, representing national insurance associations from 18 countries across Latin America and Spain. We sat down to speak with FIDES’ new Secretary-General Francisco Astelarra.

MiN: How does FIDES support and promote inclusive insurance?

Long-standing Network member Oikocredit has recently shared its latest success story - the expansion of its risk management programme - thanks in large part to fellow member ADA.

During the course of ADA's 2017 African Microfinance Week (SAM) in Ethiopia, Oikocredit representatives spoke with ICCO Cooperation, who advised them to go into the Burkina Faso market with their programme. Furthermore, Mali and Senegal are also held as prime target countries for expansion of the programme.

The Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN) will be hosting its innaugural Microfinance Bootcamp from 2-7 September 2018 in Bhurban, Pakistan.

CEO of PMN, Syed Mohsin Ahmed invited those interested to attend this unique learning opportunity.

For further details and to register, click here.