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.
How Can Small Scale Savings Be Offered Sustainably?
After six years of implementation, Scale2Save shares a number of lessons learned around the key drivers they identified for viable business models and the institutional factors that affect an FSP’s ability to offer low-balance savings products.
Driving Formal Savings: What Works for Low-Income Women
Building on findings from a recent customer research, this learning paper aims to understand of what services female customers value, prioritize and need.
Driving Financial Resilience Through Formal Savings Among the Low-Income Population
Based on customer research in Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and Uganda, this paper provides a synthesis of findings that help understand to what extent savings allowed customers to increase their financial resilience.
Guide to Inclusive Savings
In honor of World Savings Day, 31 October, this resource guide provides a curated list of recent work on inclusive savings solutions for low-income customers.
Scaling up Access to Finance in Kigoma, Tanzania
This study shares lessons learned in building financial and digital capability while introducing agricultural technology interventions to savings groups through the UN Kigoma Joint Program.
Remote Coaching to Prevent Dormancy Among Low-Income Savers
Research findings from Uganda sharing results from qualitative interviews with women who report greater sense of trust and relationship with the bank and improved saving behavior as a result of coaching.