Women's entrepreneurship and health insurance financing in the DRC: Challenges, actions, and synergies
Abstract
Our interest in this article is on health insurance financing for women entrepreneurs in the informal sector that covers more than 62% of the active population of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and on the establishment of a social solidarity mechanism.
The quantitative method was used in combination with the qualitative method for a better understanding of this topic.
The results obtained show that the Democratic Republic of Congo has approximately 62% of active women. Among them, only 6.4% have a salaried job, which implies that 55.6% of women work in the informal sector (WB). From a health perspective, this means 10.5% of women in the total population have access to health care through their employers. On the other hand, women in the informal sector lack health insurance and have no choice but to find alternative solutions. Mutual health insurance is presented in this article as an alternative and its financing can be based on group savings such as tontines.
How to Cite This Article
Dr. Aimée Tathiana Koulounda, John Kangolo Lunkamba, Dr. Jean-Paul Favre (2023).
Women's entrepreneurship and health insurance financing in the DRC: Challenges, actions, and synergies
. International Journal of Management and Organizational Research (IJMOR), 2(2), 34-42.