2016 | Candace Nelson and Megan Gash (SEEP Network)
This research agenda highlights the most salient issues in the SG community, and it guides attention and resources to addressing them so that innovation may be informed by evidence.
The theme…
Evidence from the field about how to apply the market facilitation approach in practice remains fairly limited and is often poorly documented. Despite some good examples,1 there is a general d…
In September 2011, UNCDF in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation launched a sixty ear expansion of the MicroLead programme that aimed to increase access to savings driven microfinance to…
This working paper discusses new theories of change in the microfinance industry, which suggest that the use of financial services for poor households results in resiliency. In effect, financi…
The report provides, for the first time, a global mapping of linkage activity between savings groups and formal financial institutions around the world. In total, we were able to identify near…
2016 | Barclays, CARE International UK, Plan International UK
As part of the Banking on Change program, Plan International UK, CARE International UK, and Barclays have developed a YSG model to increase young people’s access to financial services an…
2016 | Jaheed Parvez and Muhymin Chowdhury (FHI 360, USAID)
This report includes the findings from an assessment conducted in Bangladesh by FHI 360 through the USAID mSTAR project that aimed to identify opportunities that may exist for leveraging digit…
PAREL signifies “be prepared” in Wolof, the most commonly spoken language in Senegal, and serves the dual purpose of calling on communities to take ownership of the initiative and…
In 2014, Freedom from Hunger, with support from the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), designed a study to gather information on household resilience. A key question of the resilien…
