Aug 15, 2018 | Rosalie Biaba, The Panzi Foundation & Nicole Mills, The BOMA Project
Innovations in Kenya and the DRC lower barriers to financial inclusion. Women comprise 56% of the 1.7 billion adults globally without access to formal financial services. The gender inequality…
Aug 15, 2018 | Mercy Corps
Laxmi Kumari Magar, Bhajami Municipality, Kailali. 44 years old, Community Disaster Management Committee (CDMC) president, female head of household. Main livelihood is agriculture, her husban…
Jul 25, 2018 | Chris Prottas
Around 200 million people in rural Africa depend on handpumps for access to clean water. Yet studies suggest that 30 to 50% of handpumps are non-functional. In Uganda where The Water Trust ope…
Jul 18, 2018 | CARE International
This blog was originally published on CARE Insights and we are pleased to share it here with the SEEP community. The SEEP Network’s SG2018: The Power of Savings Groups conference has end…
Jul 12, 2018 | The SEEP Network
The SEEP Network is thrilled to announce our formal partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) Economic Inclusion Unit. The partnership was formed through SEEP&r…
Jun 27, 2018 | Beldina Opiyo-Omolo
This blog was originally published on WomenStrong International. We are pleased to share it here with the SEEP community. SG2018: The Power of Savings Groups, hosted by the venerated SEEP Netw…
Jun 11, 2018 | Sukhwinder Arora and Paul Rippey
Insights from a study funded by the Savings at the Frontier programme (a partnership between Mastercard Foundation and Oxford Policy Management) have revealed the phenomenon of deposit collect…
May 18, 2018 | Emma Fawcett
Mali has one of the highest fertility rates in the world, with an average of more than 6 children per woman. Closely spaced births also contribute to maternal mortality (587 deaths per 100,000…
May 14, 2018 | Olayinka David-West
In my previous post on my participation at the International Conference for Responsible and Inclusive Finance (ICRIF), I summarized key highlights from the panel discussion on 'The Business of…
May 10, 2018 | Anne Marie van Swinderen
In the weeks leading up to SG2018: The Power of Savings Groups in Kigali, all presenters and participants are thinking about what people already know about Savings Groups and what the rest of…
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