Health Microinsurance: A Comparative Study of Three Examples in Bangladesh

This comparative study looks at three health insurance schemes in Bangladesh, namely those run by BRAC, Grameen Kalyan (GK) and the Society for Social Services (SSS). All three organizations are NGOs registered with the NGO Affairs Bureau under the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulations Ordinance of 1978.

This paper was commissioned by the “Good and Bad Practices in Microinsurance” project. Managed by the ILO’s Social Finance Programme for the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance, this project is jointly funded by SIDA, DFID, GTZ, and the ILO. The major outputs of this project are:

• A series of case studies to identify good and bad practices in microinsurance
• A synthesis document of good and bad practices in microinsurance for practitioners based on an analysis of the case studies. The major lessons from the case studies will also be published in a series of two-page briefing notes for easy access by practitioners.
• Donor guidelines for funding microinsurance