Jun 16, 2021 | WS4R Innovation Partners
Earlier this year, we were thrilled to award five grants as part of the Women Saving for Resilience Innovation Fund. The awards support ground-breaking COVID-19 response and recovery efforts r…
May 5, 2021 | Natacha Brice, CARE
There are over 300 million people around the world living in fragile contexts, with nearly 26 million refugees fleeing conflict and scarcity. With historically high numbers of people living in…
Feb 8, 2021 | Richard Rumsey, World Vision
Photo credit: World Vision This blog post was originally published on the FinDev Gateway blog. We are pleased to share it with the SEEP community. World Vision shares how they are working to…
Nov 19, 2020 | Diana Dezso, Itad
Photo courtesy: DanChurchAid This blog was originally published on the Itad website. We're pleased to share it here with the SEEP community. #SEEP2020 was my first virtual conference. While I…
Sep 9, 2020 | Emily Janoch, CARE
Photo Credit: Peter Caton/CARE 2017 How about we went into a project saying, “women are powerful, let’s treat them that way?” If we wish to impact lives beyond the life of on…
May 12, 2020 | Lisa Chassin & John Balaba (PHB Development, Oxford Policy Management)
Agent booth in Lusaka, Zambia. Credits: John Balaba, SatF This blog looks back at a recent Savings at the Frontier collaboration with nine financial service providers (FSPs) in Africa to exami…
Mar 27, 2020 | Dicken Thunde, World Vision Ghana
Adolescent Savings for Transformation (S4T) Group in session Youth savings groups (YSGs) can respond to their needs, promote entrepreneurship and workforce development skills that will help yo…
Mar 2, 2020 | Mark Kelly, World Vision International
Girls' Savings Group led by World Vision Mozambique Multidimensional Poverty It is a defining moment of our childhood when we begin to understand money. Its value and its scarcity. Its ability…
Feb 28, 2020 | Tracy Mitchell, RTI International
(L to R) Nicki Post, from Mercy Corps; Kevin Mulligan from USAID Center for Resilience and Amy Sink Davies, RTI present at the 2019 SEEP Annual Conference. Access to financial services is a wi…
Feb 10, 2020 | Mark Reilley, Pact
Photo credit: Pact WORTH is an award-winning micro-banking program that empowers women to lift themselves and each other out of poverty and recently reached its one-millionth member! WORTH&rsq…
Feb 5, 2020 | Whitney Moret, FHI 360
NGOs have promoted Savings Groups (SGs) in Tanzania since the early 2000s, and they are now a standard economic strengthening intervention in projects designed to benefit orphans and vulnerabl…
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 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 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…
Jun 27, 2019 | Anna Ferracuti, UNCDF
“How do you like this neighborhood? That bag really suits you!” exclaims Jaqueline as she walks us to her shop. She is ecstatic because earlier today, I purchased a bag from her fo…
Mar 21, 2019 | Yusef Salehi, Savings at the Frontier Programme
Photo credit: SatF/OPM/Sam Vox As the Savings at the Frontier (SatF) programme enters its fourth year, Yusef Salehi reflects on the positive effects of having had three years of space –…
Nov 5, 2018 | James Robinson, Itad
This blog was originally published on the Center for Financial Inclusion website. We are pleased to share it here with the SEEP community. Saving hasn't kept up with access in the growth of…
Aug 29, 2018 | Microfinance Gateway
This blog post was originally published on the Microfinance Gateway blog. Sybil Chidiac of Grameen Foundation discusses what works and what doesn’t when tailoring savings groups to…
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