Reflections on Dar

After a week barely leaving the hotel in Dar es Salaam during daylight, I have witnessed one Miss Tanzania contest, one karaoke night at the beach and four days of microinsurance geekery - first the Microinsurance Innovation Facility's Innovation Forum and then the 8th International Microinsurance Conference.

Some brilliant presentations on micro-Takaful and health microinsurance come to mind, but of course the most inspiring parts came in the discussions between presentations. In particular, the drive for microinsurance from some very different perspectives - microinsurance as just one part of making insurance sustainable... microinsurance as a financing tool for health or agriculture purposes... microinsurance as an intriguing business venture... "I don't want to call it microinsurance" insurance for the mass market...

I was struck by the younger generation at the conference - lots of keen, clever and quite quirky minds from different fields. The next decade should be an interesting one in this industry.

P.S. I leave you with a photo from my one outing in Tanzania in daylight!