Pro MHI Africa
Curriculum Development
- In the field of micro health insurance a lack of evidence-based knowledge among stakeholders in the market was identified as a major problem, hindering the development of this pro-poor market.
- Within the “Pro-MHI Africa”-project the cooperating universities develop a modern university lecture using the projects research findings to fill this gap by educating decision makers of tomorrow in universities, government, the industry and civil society.
- Already existing microfinance course modules in the African partner universities serve as a basis for developing new modules.
- The developed university teaching modules will include multimedia and participatory learning approaches, thus enhancing university staffs skills to highest level teaching and modern methods.
- The consortium introduces a joint diploma in microinsurance in order to sustainably provide adequately skilled professionals for the fast growing (micro-) insurance industry.
- The partners jointly develop curricula on essentials of micro health insurance for teaching to different stakeholders.
- In addition, the partners develop practice-oriented training modules which can be used to train managers, members of community organizations and micro health insurance units, for further information please see our information on the Pro MHI Africa training material.
Teaching modules and units
| 1. Basics & Systems |
| 1.1 Basics of health economics |
| 1.2 Risk management strategies & Introduction to Microfinance: Savings, credit, remittances, insurance |
| 2. Microinsurance |
| 2.1 (Micro-) Insurance basics |
| 2.2 Fields of microinsurance |
| 2.3 Organisational types of microinsurance |
| 3. Micro health insurance |
| 3.1 Introduction to Micro health insurance & Principles & Theory of Micro health insurance |
| 3.2 Advantages & disadvantages of micro health insurance for the national economy. |
| 3.3 The role of communities in micro health insurance |
| 4. Business Aspects of Micro Health Insurance (on basis of case studies) |
| 4.1 Factors for success of micro health insurance |
| 4.2 Design of benefit package / product design /premium calculation |
| 4.3 Financial management of a micro health insurance scheme / Operational Management of MHI / Information flows / MIS |
| 4.4 Marketing / Delivery channels & Sales |
| 4.5 External relations |
| 4.6 Monitoring & Evaluation |
| 4.7 Setting up of micro health insurance scheme / Cost benefit analysis of Micro health insurance |