WomenLink Phase 1 pilot tested a digital literacy and financial education program based on SMS (short message system). Messages delivered to women’s phones were designed to deliver simpl…
In 2017, Grameen Foundation conducted a usability study funded by Wells Fargo to understand how the functionality of digital financial services, products and applications as perceived by low-i…
2017 | Niamh Barry, Annabel Schiff, and Jonathan Donner (Caribou Digital)
The Digital Finance Evidence Gap Map (EGM) serves as the inventory of client-level impact. The interactive EGM and supporting narratives provide an overview of the evidence of the effects of D…
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…
Catholic Relief Services and partners piloted a health microinsurance product and delivered it through savings groups in Benin. They introduced a digital solution to improve efficiency and sca…
2015 | Christian Loupeda, Aly Ouédraogo, and Megan Gash
Due to a growing need for both greater security for their funds and increased access to financial services for savings group members, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have started program…
In 2013, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) issued a statement of work calling for an evaluation of the feasibility of digitally linking savings and loan groups (SGs) to the formal…
The savings group sector spends an amazing amount of time recording, collecting, verifying, consolidating, reporting and analysing data. It starts at the group level with passbooks or ledgers,…
In September 2011 CIK launched a partnership with Equity Bank and Orange for GS&L financial linkage. The pilot project, which received technical support from CARE’s Access Africa ini…
Early in 2011 CARE,2 realizing ongoing difficulties in performance management data collection that the paper and Excel-based MIS present, forged a partnership with ViewWorld3 to develop a web…
In 2009 CARE’s Save Up program launched three pilot projects to provide non-financial linkages in the three Save Up countries: bank accounts in Malawi, mobile phone banking in Tanzania a…
This paper presents a new framework which allows people to manage their diverse payment, cashflow management and commitment savings needs simply and intuitively, from a single account. It buil…
Kibera, a slum-city located wholly within the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, is home to a more than a million people.
In the rainy season, its roads dissolve into brown glue, slowing the daily tra…
Collection of posts from an online speakers corner hosted by MicroSave that seeks to shed light on three main broad subjects. The first set of discussions revolves around the needs of the poor…
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