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2020 | Mark Staehle (SEEP Network)
The SEEP Network defines digital savings groups (DSGs) as “technologies and systems that digitize savings group records, procedures or transactions.” What is most exciting about th…
2019 | Christina Wieser, Miriam Bruhn, Johannes Kinzinger, Christian Ruckteschler & Soren Heitmann (World Bank Group)
This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with anothe…
2019 | Kwaku D. Kessey (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
The importance of the financial sector in an economy cannot be overemphasized. Among others, it provides financial resources to support businesses, household consumption as well as public sect…
2019 | Kelly Jones (American University) & Erick Gong (Middlebury College)
For the most vulnerable, even small negative shocks can have significant short- and long-term impacts. Few interventions that improve shock-coping are widely available in sub-Saharan Africa. W…
2019 | Nika Naghavi (GSMA)
2019 marked a major milestone for the mobile money industry: the number of registered mobile money accounts surpassed one billion. This year’s State of the Industry Report looks at what…
2019 | Grameen Foundation
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…
2019 | Grameen Foundation
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…
2015 | Angie Tyler (Catholic Relief Services)
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…
2014 | Bankable Frontier Associates
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…
2013 | FSD Kenya
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,…
2013 | CARE
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…
2013 | CARE USA
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…
2011 | CARE
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…
2011 | Ignacio Mas and Colin Mayer
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…
2010 | Kim Wilson
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…
2008 | Madhurantika Moulik
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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