Over the last 25 years, development actors have trained approximately 700,000 Savings Groups, comprised of 14 million members, across 75 countries. Despite the seemingly large number of Saving…
Care CIV through Care Nederland has received funding from the H & M Foundation to implement the Women in Enterprise project. This project has two phases, one of which is more focused on en…
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 | Benjamin S. Allen, Ph.D. and Tatiana Christiane Tang (Catholic Relief Services)
This study was conducted to evaluate the sustainability of CRS’ Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC), fee-for-service, Private Service Provider (PSP) model in Madagascar. It b…
2018 | Fiona Jarden and Aisha Rahamatali (CARE International)
Savings Groups are community-based financial service providers that deliver basic financial services to millions of members in underserved markets worldwide. Traditionally, the promotion of Sa…
FSD Kenya has invested substantially in supporting savings groups (SGs) based on the hypothesis that these kinds of informal services are more accessible to underserved markets. Leveraging on…
This paper synthesizes lessons learned by the Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Network, as captured in seven case studies written by the Springfield Centre. It is intended as a reference for s…
This case study examines the efforts of FSD Kenya, since 2008, to promote Savings Groups and the extent to which its strategies and approaches are consistent with the basic M4P principles.
2014 | The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), UK Department for International Development (DFID)
This guide is a foundational reference for market systems development, and provides guidance to help practitioners put the market systems development approach into practice.
CRS’ delivery model rethinks the approach to agents who form SILC groups, by preparing agents to become independent service providers operating on a market-led basis. Community-based age…
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