Insurance companies

Organised in October and again in November 2010, the purpose of our Learning Journeys on insurance was to investigate the insurance needs in low-income communities, using Alexandra township in Johannesburg as a benchmark. Split into groups of 6-7, our delegates, drawn from leading insurance companies from all over Africa, interacted with ordinary household members in shacks, RDP houses, council houses as well as with small business owners in order understand the insurance market at the BoP and its challenges, as well as to discuss, identify and visualize market opportunities for the development of micro-insurance products.