Sharing the Risk: “Micro Equity” for Savings Groups
DreamStart Labs is re-thinking assumptions about how to design solutions for people in emerging economies, starting with a new product which aims to distribute risks more fairly.
"Yes I Get It. Small Deposits Do Make Sense." - Lessons From a Pilot With Airtel Payments Bank on Client Communication
This slide deck charts the journey of a pilot on behavioral communication to encourage women to make small saving deposits.
Savings and Retail Banking in Africa: Unpacking the Customer Through Demand Side Data
This publication examines the challenges of finding and using data in African countries and takes the examples of three financial service providers who are already reaping the benefits of a transition to data-driven, customer-centric operations and product portfolios.
Savings and Financial Health
This meta-study explores findings from the savings literature that relate to the key elements used to define financial health, and explores whether they indicate that savings contribute to financial health.
The Power of Community-Based Organizations to Mobilize Farmers’ Savings
A Scale2Save project in Cote d’Ivoire shares what they’ve learned working with farmer cooperatives as financial agents.
From Ideation to Iteration: Human-Centered Design of Micro-Savings in Nigeria
LAPO Microfinance Bank learned five important lessons from their experience using a human-centered design process to revamp their child savings account product.
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.
Informed Design: A Case Study Series (WomenSave)
The first in a new case study series from FinEquity on informed design and digital financial services (DFS). This study examines product and service design by WomenSave, an organization targeting poor (living on less than $2 a day) women in underserved areas of Uganda through financial literacy training and financial advisory services, access to mobile money and goal-based savings plans.
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.
Call for Resources: Savings Groups, Women & COVID-19
These key topics of investigation for the Learning Group are Women’s Voice and Leadership, and Strengthening Savings Group Resilience to Shocks.