(Business in Cameroon) - According to a release issued by the Inter-African Conference on Insurance Markets (CIMA), Cameroonian, Jean Claude Ngbwa (photo), Secretary General of that organisation, visited Cameroon from the 15^th to the 16^th of July to make final preparations for the international micro-insurance meeting to be held by the Central and West African watchdog body in the Cameroonian economic capital from the 8^th to the 12^th of September 2014.

Entitled “Micro-insurance Learning Sessions”, the international meeting will gather insurance company heads and experts around the theme: “Protecting small workers” and aims to raise participants’ awareness about the importance of this kind of insurance in the rate of insurance penetration in Africa.  

Indeed, micro-insurance, explains the CIMA, “is an insurance mechanism that aims to protect low-income earners from specific risks. It is mainly characterised by smaller premiums or insured capital, simpler coverage, flexibility in subscriptions, contract management, claims notifications and compensation.”