Guide to Inclusive Savings

This paper highlights three different business models for targeting low-income customers with small scale savings developed by Centenary Bank in Uganda, Lapo Microfinance Bank in Nigeria and Advans Microfinance Bank in Ivory Coast.

This research on eight FSPs in Tanzania and Ghana aims to support the development of innovative financial services for users of informal savings mechanisms, by recording innovation processes and identifying innovation drivers and barriers within organizations.

This note summarizes practices and lessons learned from the Savings at the Frontier program on providing funding and technical assistance to financial service providers to develop products and services for savings groups and their members.

This online interactive data portal supports practical market development and data-driven product development for financial service providers using financial access data, demographic, and socio-economic household data in Nigeria.

This slide deck charts the journey of a behavioral communication pilot to encourage women to make small saving deposits.

This publication highlights the experience of three financial service providers in Africa who took a data-driven, customer-centric approach to operations and product portfolios.

This publication details three tools to help financial service providers achieve access to customer data, face the proximity challenge of delivering digital financial services, and use public data to quantify market opportunities.

This evidence map provides consolidated access to evidence related to savings-focused financial inclusion and enables users to navigate and find existing evidence as well as identify existing gaps.

This report presents the findings from qualitative evaluation studies into the impact of a series of financial innovations designed to link informal savings mechanisms to formal financial services under the Savings at the Frontier (SatF) program.

This meta-study explores findings from the savings literature that relate to the key elements used to define financial health and explores how savings contribute to financial health.

This knowledge review focuses on successes and challenges in building up climate resilience through savings across three dimensions: disaster preparedness, response and adaptation to climate change.