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State of the Practice: Savings Group Linkages 2024
Based on interviews with 46 practitioners across various sectors, this report delineates the contemporary landscape of linkages between informal savings groups and formal financial services.
Savings Products for Low-Income Customers
This brief describes strategies adopted by a broad range of financial service providers to sustainably serve savings group members and other low-income savers.
Drivers of Financial Services Innovation
This note presents the innovation drivers and competencies as key to developing innovative financial services that meet customer needs.
The Business Case for Linkage With Informal Savings
This note summarizes practices and lessons learned from the Savings at the Frontier program on providing funding and technical assistance to financial service providers.
Savings and Financial Health
This meta-study explores findings from the savings literature that relate to the key elements used to define financial health, and explores whether they indicate that savings contribute to financial health.
Building Financial Resilience: How Financial Service Providers can Help Low-Income Customers to Manage Risk
This paper showcases a range of services Savings at the Frontier partner financial service providers have developed, and presents reasons why informal savings mechanisms and their members might find them valuable.
Savings and Climate Resilience
This knowledge review focuses on successes and challenges in building up climate resilience, across three dimensions: disaster preparedness, response, and adaptation to climate change.
Adaptive Fund Management in Practice: A Partnership Approach
Learning from the Savings at the Frontier program
Encouraging Effective & Inclusive Savings
Lessons and best practices from the European Microfinance Award 2020
Curiosity Collective: Evidence of Social Changes for Women in Savings Groups
Impact of VSLAs on women, their families and communities