Post-Conference Events

Following the SEEP Annual Conference, we offered two exciting Savings Groups learning events.
Both events were free-of-charge.

Thursday, October 4 | 8:30 am - 12:00 pm 

CARE POWER Africa Learning Event

CARE’s recently completed POWER Africa project increased the financial inclusion of over 750,000 poor, food insecure individuals and their households in Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and Côte d’Ivoire. The project was anchored around CARE’s Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) methodology and a suite of layered trainings geared toward entrepreneurship and business management. CARE worked with local organizations and government to form, train, and link Village Savings and Loan Association groups to financial service providers, mobile network operators, and markets. What worked? What didn’t work? How can this learning inform current and future programmes?

THIS LEARNING EVENT was HOSTED BY CARE International

Thursday, October 4 | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm 

Global Learning Series: Applying a Market Systems Approach to Savings Groups

In 2018, the SEEP Network – in partnership with FSD Africa and FSD Zambia – developed a learning brief on Applying a Market Systems Approach to Savings Groups. The paper proposes a systemic approach to Savings Groups, to support the development of a well-functioning system where Savings Groups effectively reach all those who seek participation.

In partnership with the FSD Network, SEEP will convene a global learning series in 2018 and 2019 on a market systems approach to Savings Groups, based on the framework presented in the learning brief.

The first installment of the Global Learning Series on October 4, 2018 aimed to:

• Strengthen our understanding and application of market systems principles to Savings Groups
• Explore new roles for development actors, through active coordination and proactive experimentation in the formation and operations of Savings Groups.

 This learning event was hosted by the SEEP Network in partnership with FSD Africa