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.
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.
Solidarity in Saving: Listening to Women's Needs During Crises
Based on 3,822 (majority women) VSLA member interviews, this brief represents quantitative data from Burundi, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, and Vietnam.
World Vision and VisionFund Sign Global MOU with DreamStart Labs
The partnership will allow accelerating the digitization of savings groups worldwide and give members easier and faster access to microloans and microinsurance.
Voices of India’s MSMEs: Insights Notes From the Diaries Access to Finance
This note discusses examples from MSC's Financial Diaries research on informal enterprises and provides recommendations for policymakers and financial service providers to address the credit gap for them.
Coping Strategies of Financially Distressed Households
Which clients are most likely to draw down savings, borrow or sell off assets to deal with reduced income? This data can help MFIs find ways to make savings products easier to access, use and afford.
Saving to Build Resilience: At Odds With Saving for Future Goals?
New research takes a look at how formal savings accounts can help people manage financial risks as well as accumulate savings for the future.
Digitizing BeninCajù Savings Groups - Final Project Report
This report shares important insights about the benefits of Village Savings and Lending Associations transitioning from paper to digital ledgers using the DreamSave app.
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.
Saving Through bKash to Expedite Financial Inclusion From Rural Backwater
The bKash feature will open up new avenues for people who are lagging behind in terms of financial inclusion and expedite digital transformation.