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A Typology of Relationships Between Savings Groups and Financial Service Providers
Classifying the different types of linkages to facilitate research, comparisons, and contracts
9 pages
This learning brief proposes a typology to describe the types of relationships between Savings Groups (SGs) and financial service providers (FSPs), to ease discussion, facilitate research, improve comparisons across studies, and strengthen the language in contracts and other agreements. A widely-accepted typology of linkages will have clear benefits, such as:
- Reduce confusion and ease discussion, by freeing people from the burden of finding the words to describe what they are talking about. A widely-accepted typology will provide a consistent and relevant set of subcategories of SG-FSP relationships;
- Facilitate research, by making it easier to define and target specific types of SG-FSP relationships;
- Make it easier to compare studies, if it is found that they are addressing the same type of SG-FSP relationship; or, make it evident that studies are not comparable, because they are addressing different types;
- Provide a clearly understood and unambiguous language about SG-FSP relationships to use in contracts, grant agreements, reports, studies and other documents.
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