Overcoming the Challenges of Scaling Voluntary Risk Pools in Low-Income Settings

The report discusses the challenges of introducing and scaling smaller, voluntary riskpooling programs in an attempt to constructively consider how to overcome these challenges. It presents six major hurdles that risk-pooling programs are faced with and highlights various mechanisms that program implementers are currently experimenting with to overcome them. It concludes with lessons from successful cases of small programs being scaled up to the national level.

Publication & Resource Type: 
Working Papers
Year Published: 
2009
R4D Author(s): 
Gina Lagomarsino

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