Jamii is a mobile micro-health insurance product for the informal sector launched in partnership with vodacom tanzania ltd, the jubilee insurance of tanzania ltd and edgepoint digital ltd. It is increasing Digital Inclusion and Making an Impact.
Start-up Jamii is expanding financial inclusion and health care coverage in Tanzania by delivering affordable micro-insurance through a mobile platform.
In Tanzania, over 40 million subscribers have a cell phone, but only 4 million adults have health insurance. This is especially perilous for low-income, informal workers. Across the continent, high out-of-pocket health care costs plunge over 11 million Africans into poverty every year. Fortunately, digital technology offers a scalable solution to this challenge.

Jamii offers a mobile-based micro-health insurance product for as little as $1 a month to Tanzania’s low-income, informal sector. Last fall, Jamii’s founder, Lilian Makoi, participated in infoDev’s pan-African accelerator program, XL Africa.

http://www.jamiiafrica.com/

• United Republic of Tanzania

Health and technologies