Tag: Healthcare financing
Mobile Banking: Focus on Savings
In this video Bob Christen, Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation talks about the strategy of the Foundation in mobilising savings account for people who live on less than 2 dollars a day. Bob explains the various agent models that could support savings services. He says the successful mobilisation of small-scale savings requires dramatic reductions […]
Jan 17, 2011
Building a Bridge Between MFIs and the Health Sector, Innovative Health Care Financing Scheme for the Low-Income Community
This report outlines the challenges Afya, a healthcare financing scheme, faced during the pilot in Kenya along with reassuring indications that the health care product(s) for low-income groups have a huge market.
Jan 4, 2006
Reducing Vulnerability: The Supply of Health Microinsurance in East Africa
This paper addresses the supply side of micro-insurance. The authors identified seven institutions in the East African region as case studies to help understand supply side products and operations.
Jul 1, 2003
Poverty Africa Health Programme – Health Microinsurance
Poverty Africa (POA) is an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Tanzania. This paper highlights POA’s holistic health promotion strategy and institutional structure and describes its micro-insurance scheme.
Dec 18, 2002
MEDIPLUS Health Services – Nairobi, Kenya
The paper outlines the interventions and strategies adopted by MediPlus, a privately owned, for-profit health maintenance organisation (HMO) in Nairobi.
Dec 17, 2002
Community Health Plan (“CHeaP” – Kisumu, Kenya)
The paper describes the Community Health Plan (CHeaP), a project of the microfinance organisation CENT, in Kisumu, Kenya and how it uses a savings-based methodology for collecting health insurance premiums.
Dec 9, 2002