Apr 16, 2018 | Olayinka David-West
At the recently ended International Conference for Responsible and Inclusive Finance (ICRIF), I was privileged to organize and moderate a fantastic panel discussion, "The Business of Fintech i…
Apr 13, 2018 | Jessica Massie
How can savings groups be provided with safe, affordable and convenient formal financial services? How can formal financial service providers develop products for savings groups in a way that…
Apr 10, 2018 | Robert Stone and Stephen Peachey
A successful business case for linkages must offer something useful to all involved parties. This means looking ‘inside the black box’ of different mindsets: the bank or microfinan…
Apr 9, 2018 | Emily Namey
Long before I was introduced to the world of savings groups, I worked on the socio-behavioral side of HIV prevention research for several years in the early 2000s. During that time, I read hun…
Apr 3, 2018 | Sonya Salanti
The SEEP Network and the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) hosted a joint webinar on applying the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards and Minimum Criteria for Livelihoods in e…
Mar 27, 2018 | Lydia Mbevi
In times of crisis, it can be hard to think about the future, much less make plans for saving money. How could anyone go to a savings group meeting when their village was under quarantine? How…
Mar 23, 2018 | CARE
Over the past 34 years, CARE International Rwanda has lifted up women and girls in rural areas, helping them overcome poverty and live dignified lives. CARE focuses on women and girls because…
Mar 15, 2018 | Erin Stern
Indashyikirwa, meaning ‘agents for change’, is a program that seeks to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) across Rwanda, and is being implemented by CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Women&…
Mar 5, 2018 | Sabine Garbarino & Alexander Kucharski
On average, 40 percent of women experience physical or sexual violence at the hands of their husbands or partners across Sub-Saharan Africa. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) not only has a deva…
Mar 2, 2018 | Emily Mugisha
World Relief is a faith-based international development organization. At its core, World Relief has two critical beliefs: first, World Relief believes the local church is the catalyst through…
Feb 26, 2018 | ACDI/VOCA
This blog post was originally published by ACDI/VOCA. We're pleased to share it with the SEEP Community. On October 2-4, the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network’s…
Feb 21, 2018 | Sonya Salanti
About MiC The Markets in Crisis Community of Practice (MiC) provides a learning space for practitioners engaging with markets in emergency and recovery contexts to discuss innovation ideas, sh…
Feb 16, 2018 | Sonya Salanti
Building a strong, effective and member-oriented microfinance association (MFA) is no easy feat. MFAs must address complex organizational challenges--such as building strong governance structu…
Dec 20, 2017 | Diana Dezso
This blog post was originally published by Itad. We're pleased to share it with the SEEP Community. What are we learning from savings group members on how bank linkages are working for them?…
Dec 4, 2017 | Microfinance Gateway
This blog post was originally published on the Microfinance Gateway. We're pleased to share it with the SEEP Community. Carrie Creasey shares why MetLife Foundation is focusing on financial h…
Nov 30, 2017 | Sherry Youssef
What are Social Norms? Social norms are the unspoken rules of behaviour, either explicit or implicit, that are considered acceptable in a group or society. Gender norms are a subset of social…
Nov 25, 2017 | Laura Kim
At the Arab Women's Enterprise Fund (AWEF), when we set off to undertake our poverty targeting exercise, like many other market systems programs, we too decided to use the Poverty Probability…
Nov 17, 2017 | Clara García Parra
This case study from Amhara, a region in Ethiopia, highlights lessons learned from access to finance interventions within the Land Investment for Transformation Programme (LIFT). We look at ho…
Nov 3, 2017 | Diana Dezso
This blog post was originally published by Itad. We're pleased to share it with the SEEP Community. At the 2017 SEEP Annual Conference, I had the pleasure to facilitate a session with colleag…
Oct 31, 2017 | Olivia Tran, Alejandra Vargas Garcia & Martha Melesse
How Far We Have Come "Why would we pay women for something they are willing do for free?" Feminist economist Nancy Folbre, reminisced about a time when a male colleague uttered those words to…
Oct 26, 2017 | Microfinance Gateway
This blog post was originally published on the Microfinance Gateway. We're pleased to share it with the SEEP Community. Cindy Drakeman of DoubleXEconomy shares thoughts on women's economic em…
Oct 26, 2017 | The SEEP Network
The Rwandan delegation visits the Financial Ombudsman at the Reserve Bank of India The SEEP Network organized a four-day study tour for a Rwandan delegation as part of the Responsible Finance…
Oct 24, 2017 | Stacy Edgar & Frenki Kozeli
Discussing failure is difficult because it implies that someone didn't do their job well. Too often, the discussion stops there. Yet, the complexity of our work means that forces beyond our co…
Oct 5, 2017 | Palladium
Many of the world's food market systems start with small and inefficient rain-fed farms. Farmers in developing markets rarely use improved seeds, fertilizer, irrigation and other key inputs. S…
Sep 28, 2017 | Sarah J Ward
Yesterday, I was sitting with my three kids and great Uncle Mike, trying to answer the question, "so, what are you working on now?" As an internatoinal consultant in livelihoods and resilience…
Sep 28, 2017 | Nick Aveling, Stuart Coupe & Peter Harlock
Your proposal was so scalable, it made USAID weep. Your logframe, so flawless it was exhibited at MoMA. Bono himself called to congratulate you on a "totally rockin' independent baseline study…
Sep 27, 2017 | Ladd
Children and their mothers at a health clinic run by ACDI/VOCA's Resiliency through Wealth, Agriculture, and Nutrition (RWANU) project in Uganda We know that nutrition affects a person's prod…
Sep 26, 2017 | Andy Hunter
Building scalable and sustainable food systems presents many challenges along farming value chains , not least of which is the point where our small holder famers interact with agricultural in…
Sep 25, 2017 | Thomas Abell
How will technology impact the path of inclusive development? The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and Accenture recently published a report on how technology can help achieve the UN'…
Sep 21, 2017 | Catholic Relief Services
It is unbelievable that our project, Expanding Financial Inclusion in Africa, will present its results and findings to the microfinance world at the 2017 SEEP Annual Conference next month. Wha…
Sep 20, 2017 | Karri Byrne
I recently read that "Adaptive Management requires clear problem definition." The article I was reading went on to describe how a vision or project goal needs to be concrete enough to focus ac…
Sep 20, 2017 | Sheldon Yoder
The first few times Habitat for Humanity attended the SEEP conference, attendees would stop us to ask, "What is Habitat for Humanity doing here , you build houses, not markets, right?" Indeed,…
Sep 14, 2017 | Dan Norell
I am writing this blog after just having completed a four-day training in Hawassa, Ethiopia of the "Integrating Extremely Poor Producers into Markets Field Guide" or Field Guide with the Stren…
Sep 13, 2017 | Vincent Trousseau
This blog post originally appeared on Oxfam's Knowledge Hub Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Foru…
Sep 6, 2017 | Kathleen Colson, Blandina Kilama & Sarah Gammage
Digital services - with their geographic reach, ease of use, and transparency - are driving financial inclusion and alleviating poverty. But are rural women being left behind? In South Horr,…
Aug 11, 2017 | Mollie Liesner
This blog post originally appeared on Itad Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. T…
Jul 31, 2017 | Vincent Trousseau
This blog post originally appeared on Oxfam's Knowledge Hub Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Foru…
Jul 20, 2017 | Raymond Brandes
This blog post originally appeared on the SNV Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series.…
Jul 12, 2017 | Nicole Kresse
This blog post originally appeared on the Chemonics Connections Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning…
Jul 10, 2017 | Kirsten Weiss
New digital technologies are doing wonders to achieve SEEP's and UNCDF/MicroLead's mission by expanding access to finance, especially to women and rural markets. When properly implemented, dig…
Jun 22, 2017 | Vincent Trousseau
This blog post originally appeared on Oxfam's Knowledge Hub Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Foru…
Jun 12, 2017 | Anita Raj & Jeni Klugman
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. This blog was written by Dr. Anita Raj of the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine and the…
May 26, 2017 | Naila Kabeer
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. I was asked in my keynote to address the question: economic versus non-economic empowerment: is there a false…
May 24, 2017 | Ulrike Joras
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. Join Oxfam, CARE International, World Cocoa Foundation, FAO, Marcatus QED and Coca-Cola ASEAN at the 2017 WEE…
May 23, 2017 | Kathleen Colson
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. Join Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The BOMA Project, and Mercy Corps at the 2017 WEE Forum for the Peer…
May 22, 2017 | Alejandra Vargas Garcia
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. Join IDRC and others at the 2017 WEE Forum for the Industry Initiative Session, Care Work and Women's Economic…
May 16, 2017 | Rachel Coleman, Tazeen Hasan & Anca Bogdana Rusu
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. Join Winrock International, ACI and USAID at the 2017 WEE Forum for the Peer Learning Session, Different Persp…
May 15, 2017 | Charlotte Friar
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. Join Winrock International, ACI and USAID at the 2017 WEE Forum for the Peer Learning Session, Building Entrep…
May 11, 2017 | Hannah Guedenet
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. Browsing through the list of panelists presenting at the upcoming WEE Global Learning Forum in Bangkok, I rea…
May 10, 2017 | Rebecca Rouse
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. In 2006, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded a Nobel Peace Prize to one of the original architects of modern-da…
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