Corporate governance plays a vital role in creating a corporate culture of consciousness, transparency, and openness. In this context, this paper provides a brief view about the background of…
2019 | marc bavois and Benjamin S. Allen, Ph.D. (Catholic Relief Services)
For millions of financially excluded individuals worldwide, Savings Groups offer the opportunity to save and borrow small amounts of cash in a convenient, accessible and generally safe manner.…
2019 | Benjamin S. Allen, Ph.D., and marc bavois (Catholic Relief Services)
Over the last two decades, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has promoted Savings Groups – referred to as Savings and Internal Lending Communities, or SILCs – reaching about 3.8 milli…
2019 | Sukhwinder Arora and Ian Robinson (Arora Associates)
What role do governments play in protecting Savings Groups as financial service providers and their members as financial consumers? This brief paper assesses emerging government efforts to reg…
2019 | Benjamin Allen & Mabel Guevara (Catholic Relief Services)
El presente informe muestra los resultados del estudio multimetodológico en tres países sobre la efectividad de las lecciones de Educación financiera (EF) desarrolladas en…
2019 | Benjamin Allen & Mabel Guevara (Catholic Relief Services)
This report presents the results from a three-country, multi-method study of the effectiveness of CRS’ Financial Education (FE) lessons delivered in the context of Savings and Internal L…
The purpose of this risk assessment is to identify and assess the main risks that affect Savings Groups – based on the frequency and severity of negative outcomes – and ultimately…
2018 | Bobbi Gray, Christian Loupeda and Megan Gash (Grameen Foundation), Bonnie Brusky (CERISE) and Valerie de Briey
This case study, utilizing an experience from Freedom from Hunger’s Bridge to Financial Inclusion project in Burkina Faso, explores the experience of integrating client protection princi…
Savings Groups (SGs) - voluntary associations whose members meet regularly to save and borrow from group funds - have become well known across the development sector. Proponents point to a var…
Financial Sector Deepening Kenya (FSD Kenya) has worked since 2008 with CARE and, since August 2012, with CRS, to develop, test and perfect different models or channels for forming, training a…
2014 | CARE International, Plan International & Barclays
The aims of the Charter are to: set international principles that enable organizations to effectively and responsibly link informal groups of savers to formal banking products and services; bu…
The social and economic benefits of Savings Groups (SGs) for their members are well documented, from increased resilience, to social benefits, to asset accumulation. Development organizations…
Los beneficios sociales y económicos de los Grupos de Ahorro (GA) para sus miembros están bien documentados, desde una mayor capacidad de resistencia, hasta los beneficios social…
2014 | Alicia Brindisi and Julie Siwicki (Financial Access Initiative)
The poor have an acute need for savings tools to amass lump sums of money, yet the supply of useful products often falls short, in part because formal providers face barriers to entry in this…
FinMark Trust conducted a study which aimed to evaluate the current FE curriculum used by SaveAct and its delivery to SCG members to help SaveAct identify areas for improvement and adapting th…
Applying the lens of financial education to savings groups highlights that the SG methodology itself is a powerful tool for teaching members the basics of saving and borrowing. Saving is good…
This ProSavings knowledge product introduces different approaches and experiences with financial education methodologies for savings, targeted to low-income populations. The document features…
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