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The document library collects operational studies, program impact assessments, and training manuals relevant to the savings-led field. Member organizations can contribute their documents to this database and make them easily accessible to savings-led practitioners and the wider NGO community, thus increasing the visibility of savings-led methodologies.  To contribute your publications, please contact Eloisa Devietti at [email protected].

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A systematic review of the evidence on Savings Groups, based on 53 studies conducted between 2004 and 2017, this paper provides a generalized theory of change for Savings Groups, describes the evidence, summarizes the evidence, analyzes key gaps, and identifies priorities for additional research.… Read More ›

There are over 14 million members of Savings Groups across 75 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, representing a promising platform for financial inclusion in underserved markets. Savings Groups offer an entry point for financial service providers to isolated communities; they are organized, experienced and disciplined; they aggregate demand across many low-income clients; and they have identified needs that financial service providers can address.… Read More ›

Private Service Provider: Implementation Manual

This manual was developed at the conclusion of CRS’ SILC Innovations project, implemented in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It is informed by the experiences and results of that project, and seeks to distill the project learning in a practical form.

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Saving for Change Impact Stories Research Report: Burkina Faso

To better understand the lives of Saving for Change members, Freedom from Hunger conducted an "impact stories" study to look at the life events, opportunities, program perceptions, food security and poverty levels of 32 members of different Saving for Change groups located in 18 villages across the northern region of Burkina Faso that were formed through the organization Association Solidarité et Entraide Mutuelle au Sahel (SEMUS). Individual stories have been written for each respondent who described her experience with the program in a holistic way, and the aggregate outcomes are described in this report.… Read More ›

Savings Groups at the Frontier

Savings Groups at the Frontier explores the issues that will shape the future of Savings Groups. What are the costs, required inputs, and anticipated outreach of these groups? How does replication take place? How sustainable are the groups? Is it feasible to integrate financial and non-financial services? … Read More ›

This learning brief proposes a typology to describe the types of relationships between Savings Groups and financial service providers, to ease discussion, facilitate research, improve comparisons across studies, and strengthen the language in contracts and other agreements.… Read More ›

A comprehensive review of relevant and accessible literature on the facilitation of commercial relationships between Savings Groups and financial service providers, including research, project evaluations and policy materials.… Read More ›

SatF has been examining the evidence on the demand for, and supply of, formal financial services for users of informal savings mechanisms (ISMs) in order to discover which services and channels are most valued by the financially disadvantaged and what drives the business case for providers to serve them.… Read More ›

What We Want to Know: A Practitioner-Led Research Agenda for Savings Groups

This research agenda highlights the most salient issues in the SG community, and it guides attention and resources to addressing them so that innovation may be informed by evidence. … Read More ›

This case study looks at the efforts FSD Kenya has made to strengthen semi-formal rural delivery channels and build linkages with formal financial service providers through savings groups. It also considers the extent to which FSD Kenya’s strategy and approach governing the support to savings groups was consistent with basic M4P principles as codified in the “The Operational Guide for the Making Markets Work for the Poor Approach.”… Read More ›
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