The conference is particularly relevant for...

• Communities running insurance/ planning to start operations: It will provide an insight into critical issues in insurance and will deal with specific proposals to improve performance and critical points in planning to start a micro health insurance scheme.
• Policy-makers: The government has a vital role to play in creating the necessary enabling environment for a fast rollout of low-cost health insurance.
• Donor agencies and multi-/bilateral development agencies: A discussion of how funding support can be more effective in reaching the bottom of the pyramid faster and more costeffectively.
• Commercial (health) Insurance industry: The conference offers insights on improving the business process, notably by providing marketing and distribution managers information on entering the specific target market.
• Banks & MFIs: Banks and MFIs that are interested to extend their product-mix to insurance can gain insights on a larger service range to clients.
• Health economists and academics: Anyone interested in health policy, health economics and in a broad range of issues related to extending lowcost health insurance among rural and poor population segments in India will find this conference useful.