Sixty agents benefit from training on modern insurance practices

Dar es Salaam. In a bid to increase coverage and enable its services to spread all over the country, UAP Old Mutual Insurance Tanzania has trained its agents.

The training was also aimed at imparting vital skills to the company agents, to enable them mastering the basics of the insurance industry.

The company has already trained 60 agents in a wide range of skills, ranging from products, sales to regulations.

“The training of this nature also offers opportunities to interact with agents more freely and in informal way. In additional to that agents also get to know the issues surrounding insurance market,’’ the head of Business Development and Marketing, Mr Jabir Kigoda, said when he highlighted the focus of the training.

Among areas covered in the training were compliance on all regulatory changes as a means to enable them operate in line with existing legal framework. “This should keep agents safe from breaches and so that they are not caught on the wrong side of the law,” said Mr Kigoda.

“The timing of this training is ideal as we always want our agents to serve our clients better. I am sure this training has gone a long way to helped them especially on how to conduct business efficiently in the future,” Mr Kigoda added.

UAP made its entry into the Tanzanian market in 2013 through the acquisition of a majority 60 per cent shareholding in Century Insurance Company Limited and renamed the underwriter UAP Insurance Tanzania. The company provides insurance cover in the short-term insurance category also known as General Insurance

UAP is a subsidiary of UAP Holdings Limited, the pan-African Financial Services originated in Kenya since 1920’s when Provincial Insurance Company of East Africa was incorporated.