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2019 | The SEEP Network
These 10 tips are a product of the SEEP Network’s peer learning group on Savings Groups for Refugees – composed of representatives from the Danish Refugee Council, the Fletcher Sch…
2019 | Ashley Wheaton (SEEP Network)
Worldwide, about 80 percent of Savings Group members are women (SAVIX 2019). Gendered participation rates in Savings Groups mirror those of the microfinance sector, which set a precedent of em…
2019 | World Savings Banks Institute
Banks that want to accelerate financial inclusion should focus on young people in Africa, understand their lives and needs better, and offer them appropriate and tailored products. These are a…
2019 | Zoë Sutherland, Megan Gash, Daniel Joloba (Itad)
This report describes the findings of an ex-post evaluation of the Expanding Financial Inclusion (EFI) program, delivered by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and implementing partners in Burkina…
2019 | Paul Rippey (Grassroots Finance)
Between 2017 and 2019, World Relief (WR) and Grassroots Finance (GF) launched an experiment in Dedza District of Malawi. The two partners wanted to see if nudges, that is, non-coercive, low or…
2019 | Stephen Peachey and Mbinya Mutiso (Savings at the Frontier)
Lack of proximity has long been identified as an obstacle to sustained take-up – and sustained use – of formal financial services. Through this decade, funding and specialist skill…
2019 | Itad
This report is based on an in-depth review of 44 studies that examine the effects of a range of youth savings initiatives. The definition of youth in this sample of studies ranges from 5&ndash…
2019 | Jeffrey Ashe (University of New Hampshire) and Kim Wilson (Tufts University)
The American Dream—being able to earn a good living, buy a home, send children to school, and build a life in the United States regardless of social stature or place of birth—is an…
2019 | Allison Bardsley and Bobbi Gray (Grameen Foundation)
The Grameen Foundation program, “Women’s Savings Groups for Better Reproductive Health in Bénin” advanced opportunities for rural women and their husbands to make choi…
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…
2019 | The Water Trust
45% of wells in rural Uganda are broken. The majority fall into disuse after several years of inadequate maintenance. In communities where two-thirds of households lack cash savings, the chall…
2017 | Guy Innes and Sege E. Yakeu (CARE Canada)
CARE Canada commissioned a resiliency learning exercise to qualitatively (and to a limited extent, quantitatively) assess the role their Village Savings and Loan Association model (VSLA) has o…
2018 | CARE
The POWER Africa project, implemented by CARE Canada in partnership with Mastercard Foundation, promoted youth livelihoods to empower adolescent girls to find a pathway out of poverty, drive g…
2018 | Emily Namey, Brian Perry, Jennifer Headley, and Michael Ferguson (FHI 360), Albert Kouakao Yao, Mariame Louise Ouattara, and Coulibaly Shighata (Independent Consultant)
Many women’s decisions about whether and how to participate in sex work are driven by financial considerations. Despite the recognized importance of economic factors in HIV risk among fe…
2018 | Mandy Swann (FHI 360)
Household economic strengthening (HES) is increasingly implemented alongside HIV programing to address economic drivers of the epidemic. The evidence base on HES for HIV outcomes is growing, a…
2018 | Catholic Relief Services
To ensure vulnerable households have more reliable income sources to meet the basic needs of children in their care, SMILE employed multiple economic strengthening interventions including savi…
2018 | MEASURE Evaluation
The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) launched the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) initiative in 2016 to accelera…
2018 | Nena do Nascimento and Susan Settergren (Palladium), Thandie Harris-Sapp (Independent Consultant)
To strengthen adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) programming in Mozambique and inform the design, implementation, and monitoring of PEPFAR girls’ clubs and savings groups globally,…
2018 | Benjamin S. Allen, Ph.D. (Catholic Relief Services)
This state of practice report provides a comprehensive overview of the inclusion of vulnerable populations in Savings Groups. Over the past 25 years, development organizations have mobilized m…
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