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Understanding Youth and their Financial Needs ›

by Youth and Financial Services Working Group

The Understanding Youth and their Financial Needs publication provides deep insights into the financial decision making behaviors of youth (e.g., spending, saving, and borrowing) at three different levels—the client level, market segmentation level, and institutional level—and shows how these behaviors can inform the design of financial and education support services.… Read More ›

Savings as a Cornerstone: Laying the Foundation for Financial Inclusion ›

by Josh Martin

This report documents the major practical approaches to mobilizing the savings of the poor, focusing on innovations that new savings providers might utilize to overcome key challenges. In particular, the report addresses challenges at the client and institutional levels in order to identify the areas of intervention that hold the greatest strategic importance for practitioners. An important objective of the report is to provide knowledge to savings practitioners working with people living at the bottom of the pyramid that these practitioners can use to dialogue with the broader financial services sector, as well as inform their efforts to significantly increase the number of new savers among the world’s poor.… Read More ›

Monitoring and Measuring Change in Market Systems - Rethinking the Current Paradigm ›

by Lucho Osorio-Cortes and Marcus Jenal

As is widely experienced, markets are not static, but in constant flux. The changes are not predictable and often surprising, even after thorough market analysis and strategic planning. Our interventions turn out results that were either unforeseen or unanticipated. This type of behavior creates specific challenges for monitoring and evaluation of development interventions. Changes in markets must be monitored and measured using approaches that embrace their dynamic and unpredictable nature. Advances in complexity sciences can provide useful principles and concepts to build the foundations of more effective and relevant monitoring and evaluation frameworks for both market and financial systems.… Read More ›

Savings Groups at the Frontier ›

by Savings-Led Financial Services Working Group

Savings Groups at the Frontier explores the issues that will shape the future of Savings Groups. What are the costs, required inputs, and anticipated outreach of these groups? How does replication take place? How sustainable are the groups? Is it feasible to integrate financial and non-financial services? Are linkages to the formal system desirable? What is the impact of groups on members and their households? How can performance be managed? Not surprisingly, these issues mirror the preoccupation of the pioneers of microcredit. However, this book addresses them, not from the perspective of the financial institution, but in support of group members and savers who are managing their own financial services.… Read More ›

Market Outlook 2012: Perspectives of Microfinance Association Leaders ›

by Karla Brom

The Market Outlook 2012: Perspectives of Microfinance Association Leaders brings together the insights of 37 directors of microfinance associations (MFAs) from around the globe to provide a field-level perspective on the direction of microfinance worldwide over the next 12–18 months. The surveyed associations represent 4,743 microfinance institutions (MFIs) and 70 million clients, with a total collective loan portfolio of approximately US$21 billion.
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Minimum Economic Recovery Standards ›

by The SEEP Network

The Minimum Economic Recovery Standards articulate the minimum level of technical and other assistance to be provided in promoting the recovery of economies and livelihoods affected by crisis.… Read More ›

Can Formal work with Informal? Webinar Presentation ›

Can VSLAs work with Banks and other formal institutions? What kind of preparation is needed among VSLAs and Banks/ institutions to do business together? What has been the experience of the Banks, MFIs, mobile money service providers?

These are some of the questions that are explored in this presentation, created for a webinar given on May 21st entitled "Can Formal work with Informal? Lessons, Opportunities and Challenges for Deepening Financial Inclusion." This presentation is based on experiences and lessons from 8 pilots in 5 countries (Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Malawi), linking VSLAs to institutions such as Barclays Bank, Vodafone, Vision Finance, and MicroEnsure.… Read More ›

Blazing a Trail, Addressing Obstacles: Lessons from Save the Children and Fondation Zakoura’s Youth Microfinance and Training Program ›

by Laura Meissner

This case study examines the challenges of Save the Children and Fondation Zakoura Micro-Crédit in implementing a USAID-funded financial services program for youth and the ways the institutions sought to address these challenges. This document examines the institutional, local market, and programmatic difficulties encountered, and offers recommendations and lessons learned.… Read More ›

Market-Driven Youth Programs and the Bottom Line ›

by Mary Liz Kehler, Luis Fernando Sanabria, Paul Teeple

This technical note presents the experience of two organizations- Fundación Paraguaya and Partners of the Americas- whose youth-workforce development programs actively participate in the market, selling the same goods and services that they train their students to provide and/or selling their own services as effective trainers of youth, as a way of both overcoming resource constraints and ensuring program quality and relevance.… Read More ›

Normas Mínimas para la Recuperacion Economica, Segunda edicion ›

by La Red SEEP

Las Normas mínimas para la recuperación económica expresan el nivel mínimo de asistencia técnica y de otra índole que deben proporcionarse para promover la recuperación de las economías y de los medios de vida afectados por la crisis. Este libro utiliza la misma estructura desarrollada por Esfera (según se describe en el Manual) para sus normas, concretamente, las acciones clave, los indicadores clave y las notas de orientación.… Read More ›

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