Resources on social finance

  1. Article

    Emerging Insight: Using PACE to improve products

    25 October 2019

  2. Project documentation

    RCPB - Burkina Faso

    30 December 2015

  3. Article

    Emerging Insight: When insurance backfires for farmers

    10 May 2015

  4. Publication

    Case Brief #8: UAB Vie

    01 July 2014

    UAB Vie offers a highly-trusted savings product to market traders in Burkina Faso. The daily, manual transactions were proving inefficient and prone to error and fraud. It therefore decided to equip each member of its sales staff with a mobile phone to record the transactions in real time. This brief reflects on the advantages and limitations of this technology upgrade.

  5. Publication

    Impact Insurance Research Paper #15: Health worker preferences for community-based health insurance payment mechanisms

    01 February 2012

    Two important challenges in establishing and sustaining community-based insurance (CBI) schemes are low rates of community member enrollment and high lapse rates. These factors lead to low CBI coverage which in turn results in low levels of revenue for the risk carrier and limited risk-pooling, which leave CBI schemes financially and organizationally vulnerable to unexpected changes in incomes or high disease incidence. In Research Paper #15, an experimental design is used to examine how the relationship between insurance providers and health care facilities - and more specifically payment mechanisms for services delivered by health workers - can influence uptake and renewals. The research discovers that the way health care workers are remunerated by the risk carrier can crucially determine CBI performance and quality of health services as payment mechanisms also influence the way healthcare is delivered. Based on the results from this experiment, a revised CBI payment system based on health workers preferences was introduced in the Nouna district of Burkina Faso in January 2011.

  6. Project documentation

    MF4DW: Newsflash August 2012

    15 November 2011

    MF4DW Project Newsletter

  7. Project documentation

    Conference Report: MF4DW Closing Workshop Dead Sea, Jordan

    15 November 2011