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VisionFund Impact Evaluation - Finance Accelerating Savings Group Transformation (FAST)

This report provides a research summary of two impact evaluations looking at VisionFund´s FAST program – lending to savings groups, to determine if it accomplished its main program objectives.

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Market Opportunities for Women’s Savings: Evidence From India

This study analyzed data to better understand why and how women save in India to guide financial services providers as they work to better tailor their products to customer needs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Evidence Review of Women's Groups and COVID-19: Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Implications for Savings Groups in Africa

This brief presents emerging evidence from studies in diverse African contexts on how COVID-19 has affected savings groups and how these groups have helped mitigate the pandemic’s negative consequences in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Savings and Retail Banking in Africa: A Case Study on Mobile Financial Services

This case study​ benchmarks the impact and potential of mobile financial services in several low-income markets in Africa.

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Helping Low- and Moderate-Income Malaysians Save

Insights from UNCDF's work with GoGet and Pod

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Adaptive Fund Management in Practice: A Partnership Approach

Learning from the Savings at the Frontier program

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Savings Groups Reduce Vulnerability, but Have Mixed Effects on Financial Inclusion

How does introduction to savings groups impact the likelihood of using formal financial services?