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Increasing Access to Formal Financial Services
This learning brief describes three models that USAID-funded Feed the Future Rural Resilience Activity utilized to provide formal financial services, in particular credit and savings, to previously excluded populations in Northeast Nigeria.
Application of CGAP Customer Outcomes Framework in Uganda
This case study tests the impact of a new basic savings product positioned in the financial inclusion market using the CGAP customer outcome indicator framework.
Leading and Managing Change to Reach Low-Income Savers in Nigeria: A Case Study of LAPO MFB
This LAPO Microfinance Bank case study shares lessons from their experience in developing and implementing a change management program to underpin its launch of a savings product.
Informed Design: A Case Study Series (WomenSave)
The first in a new case study series from FinEquity on informed design and digital financial services (DFS). This study examines product and service design by WomenSave, an organization targeting poor (living on less than $2 a day) women in underserved areas of Uganda through financial literacy training and financial advisory services, access to mobile money and goal-based savings plans.
Savings and Retail Banking in Africa: A Case Study on Innovative Business Models
This study describes six business models to address the challenges financial service providers are increasingly facing as a result of digitization and the pandemic.
Savings and Retail Banking in Africa: A Case Study on COVID-19
This report looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed bank customer behavior in Africa.
Saving Cash, Saving Lives
The experiences of Haitian savings groups during COVID-19
An Opportunity for the Banking Sector to Work With Informal Savings Groups in Morocco
The objective of the research is to conduct a qualitative and quantitative study to identify opportunities related to the launch of a digital tontine offer.