This conference aims to bring together stakeholders across the financial ecosystem to advance the culture and practice of saving as a foundation for financial resilience and inclusive economic growth. 

This year, the conference lens has been broadened beyond financial services to explore other types of partnerships and linkages with products, services, and programs offered by governments and the private sector.

This baseline assessment and mapping exercise provides the first consolidated national overview of Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and other savings group models operating across Sierra Leone.

The case study shares insights on how Grameen Foundation and UGAFODE partnered to digitize savings groups and provide tailored financial products to refugees and host communities in Uganda’s Isingiro District.

A growing ecosystem of fintechs, financial service providers and development organizations is working to digitize savings groups and connect them to formal finance at scale. But to actually improve women's financial agency, the foundations must come first.

As we celebrate Global Money Week, an Italian initiative provides insights on helping university students convert awareness into sustained saving behavior.

Banks and MFIs have often overlooked women nano-entrepreneurs as too costly to serve. But by reaching them through trusted savings groups and digital tools, financial institutions are finding viable ways to serve segments traditional lending has missed.

Through the launch of the WPS Savings Account, Bank Nizwa reaffirms its commitment to providing responsible Islamic financial solutions that promote workforce stability, regulatory compliance, and inclusive economic growth across the Sultanate.

This policy brief shares practical lessons from customer research on women’s saving behavior in Uganda, examining how different empowerment indicators perform in capturing women’s financial behaviors, decision‑making, and outcomes.