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Anna Gincherman
Women’s World Banking
• Bangladesh
• India
• Indonesia
• Mongolia
• Pakistan
• The Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Bolivia
• Brazil • Benin
Central &
• Chile • Burundi
Latin
• Colombia • Ethiopia
America
• Dominican • The Gambia
Republic • Ghana
• Mexico Africa • Kenya
• Paraguay • Nigeria
• Peru • Uganda
Women’s World Banking: Mission & Impact
Product Offering
• Dominated to date by less complex life insurance programs (mostly credit-life policies)
• Emerging health insurance programs
• Funeral insurance in Latin America, limited property insurance coverage
Modalities
• Mainly operated through partnership models, involving a broad range of institutions including
global and domestic commercial insurance companies
• Limited private MFI-run insurance models
WWB Technical Assistance Support
Technical Assistance
• Technical assistance to help network members introduce or improve health micro insurance
Strategic Partnerships
• Network-wide initiative in partnership with Zurich Financial Services Group in which WWB offers a
caregiver health insurance program to help women clients and their families better cope with financial
burdens associated with a medical emergency—loss of income, childcare, transportation, portion of
medical costs.
Industry Leadership
• ―Gender and Microinsurance‖ paper published in cooperation with ILO,
Microinsurance Centre and ZFS in 2009.
Caregiver Product
Product Summary:
Cash benefit paid to borrowers after hospitalization to help with costs for loss of
business, medical expenses, travel costs and towards hospitalization costs.
Key Features
• Benefit at 10JD per day for up to 30 days, with
max of 45 days in policy period
• Maternity cover for complicated pregnancies after
3 days stay
• No exclusions (for pre existing conditions)
• Policy will match loan term
• Premium at 1JD per month
• Mandatory enrolment for Borrower only
• Voluntary cover for spouse & full family to be
added later
Caregiver Product –Results to Date
As of August 2010
• Hospital-cash product that would provide coverage for a specified list of illnesses that
most severely affect low income women
• Proposed countries: India, Bangladesh
Thank you.