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Invitation for the 7th Seminar on Risk, Security and Responsibility

The Centre for Risk and Insurance Research, BI Norwegian School of Management (www.bi.no.roff) which is funded by the Research Council of Norway, under its Research Program on Societal Security and Risk (SAMRISK), invites you to their 7th Seminar, which is arranged in close cooperation with the Micro Insurance Academy (http://www.microinsuranceacademy.org/ ).

Topic: Microinsurance as Risk Management for the Poor
Date: 12-13 April 2011
Venue: BI Norwegian School of Management, Campus Nydalen, Oslo, Norway
 

Preliminary programme as of December 2010:

Tuesday (12 April)

The risks of the poor and how microinsurance can help
Risks and coping mechanisms of the poor (keynote presentation planned)
An introduction to microinsurance (keynote presentation planned)

Ethical issues in the provision of microinsurance
Ethical challenges in the provision of microinsurance (keynote presentation planned) Roundtable on ethical issues

What do we know about the impact of microinsurance?
Keynote and/or academic paper presentations

Insurance Education
Keynote and/or academic paper presentations
 

Wednesday (13 April)

Examples of microinsurance
Preliminary case presentation candidates:

• CBHI Nepal
• ILRI index insurance Kenya
• From microinsurance to national coverage: An analysis of the Community Health Funds, Tanzania

Challenges faced in rolling out microinsurance
Round table

Setting an enabling environment for microinsurance
Concluding session

For colleagues working in research and/or development within this field, space can be provided in the programme for presentations of work in progress, preferably referring to real case studies and/or contributing to networking and cooperation across the theory practice divide.

Extended abstracts/presentation proposals of 700-1000 words should be sent to Johannes Brinkmann, Johannes.brinkmann@bi.no or to Ralf Radermacher,   ralf@mia.org.in by 1 February 2011.