Oct 20, 2019 | Women for Women International
Women for Women International program participants in Nigeria. Photo Credit: Sefa Nkansa What practical approaches maximize women’s economic empowerment, reduce risks and increase resil…
Oct 18, 2019 | Estefania McPhaul and Asdrubal Negrete, Chemonics
Banco de Bogota’s “mobile branch” bus travels to small towns in Colombia, allowing rural communities to open bank accounts and speak with financial advisors. How does the dev…
Oct 1, 2019 | Elizabeth Kiamba, FSD Africa
This blog was originally published on the FSD Africa website. We are pleased to share it here with the SEEP community. Photo courtesy: FSD Africa Our economies are built on the back of women&…
Sep 19, 2019 | Jeff Ratcliffe & Marie-Claire Tuzeneu, Chemonics
Community members in Koporo Pen Commune collect rainfall data using a rain gauge.
As the frequency and magnitude of climate-related hazards increases, these changes are affecting people&…
Sep 16, 2019 | Helen Bailey, Itad
In a recent review of evidence of youth savings initiatives, we found that many studies struggled to disentangle results for youth from the rest of the household and either lacked a definition…
Aug 20, 2019 | Diana Dezso, Itad
The Savings Evidence Map lives on the Mango Tree and consolidates evidence on a broad range of savings initiatives. The Savings Evidence Map was launched in 2018 as part of the Savings Learnin…
Jul 29, 2019 | Jeffrey Ashe
It was the summer of 2004. Mamadou Biteye [1] and I [2] met a group of women traders at a market two hours from Bamako, Mali’s capital [3]. Before we made our pitch for Saving for Change…
Jul 23, 2019 | Julia Hakspiel, MarketShare Associates
Panelists (left to right): Anna Mecagni from Women for Women International; Kaitlin Love from IPSOS; Sarah Gammage from ICRW; Caroleena Fontes from Oxfam America; Angeline Munzara from World V…
Jul 18, 2019 | Julia Hakspiel, Arab Women's Enterprise Fund & MarketShare Associates
The private sector is an essential partner in advancing the process of women’s economic empowerment. By adopting business practices that include and support women as workers, consumers,…
Jul 15, 2019 | Richard Reynolds, VisionFund International
The neighborhood that we visited during our field visit in Nairobi, Kenya. Impressions of An Urban Refugee Savings Groups Program I feel fortunate to have been a part of the kickoff meeting fo…
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