2018 |Joanna Ledgerwood and Diane Johnson (SEEP Network)
For Savings Groups to reach significant numbers of poor people in a sustainable manner, it is necessary to develop a vision for the future where Savings Groups are formed and continue to opera…
Cette note éducative propose une typologie pour décrire les types de relations entre les Groupes d'Épargne et les prestataires de services financiers, afin de faciliter le…
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Access to good quality and affordable childcare is a win-win-win for all: parents and their children, employer…
Financial inclusion practitioners and others invested in this field relentlessly seek to learn more about what works and what doesn’t. A few questions are on the top of their minds:
Doe…
This learning brief which provides an overview of the needs experienced by MFIs in Rwanda in introducing and embedding client protection practices in their operations. It draws on consumer pro…
The Gender Equality Mainstreaming (GEM) Framework is an approach that is presented here as a how-to manual – a practical guide and toolkit – for assessing gender equality, and iden…
2011 |CARE International - Rwanda and Promundo - US
This manual provides group education sessions for engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment, through female members of Savings Groups and their male partners.
2013 |Henny Slegh , Gary Barker , Augustin Kimonyo , Prudence Ndolimana & Matt Bannerman
This article presents an evaluation of a project in Rwanda that deliberately engaged men as partners of women’s Savings Groups. Results affirm the importance of engaging men in a deliber…
This manual integrates a gender-transformative perspective into Savings Groups, to engage men in group participation and support, and to improve gender relations and decision-making processes.
Research within the savings sector to date has produced mixed results on the impact of VSLA on women’s empowerment. This study examines if the more holistic approach to poverty alleviati…
2015 |Carinne Brody, Thomas de Hoop, Martina Vojtkova, Ruby Warnock, Megan Dunbar, Padmini Murthy, Shari L. Dworkin
Motivation: Self-help groups (SHGs) are implemented around the world to empower women, supported by many developing country governments and agencies. A relatively large number of studies purpo…
Together to End Violence Against Women (TEVAW) is an intimate partner violence prevention research and learning initiative designed using a socio-ecological lens to prevent intimate partner vi…
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…
This report recommends the following response activities: advocacy for integrating maize flour into the food aid distributed, and procuring both maize and sorghum food aid through Juba vendors…
The intentions of the assessment were threefold. As EMMA is a relatively new approach in Afghanistan, the intention was to utilise this event to build the capacity of Afghanistan humanitarian…
The results of the market analysis have revealed that, in the area of the Chiquimula department covered by the study, which focused in particular on the municipalities of Chiquimula, Jocot&aac…
2013 |Oxfam, CARE, MercyCorps, Islamic Relief, Save the Children
The 2013 Yemen Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA) training and assessment was conducted in the framework of the ECHO funded ERC (Enhanced Response Capacity) project, addressing an id…
Oxfam conducted a market assessment to assess the most critical markets for households living in Nairobi's informal settlements. This assessment analyzed the maize, water and credit markets, s…
2013 |International Rescue Committee, Save the children, DRC, Oxfam
This report includes the findings from the EMMA assessment of the construction labor market system in the North and Bekaa governorates. UNHCR profiling statistics from the North indicate that…
