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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 ›

Assessing the Impact of Product Features and Financial Education in Morocco ›

by MEDA

This study is the second in MEDA's 'YouthInvest Praxis Series' - a group of reflective publications developed over the course of the YouthInvest (YI) project in Morocco and Egypt to assess the impact of MEDA's interventions in order to learn from and strengthen them. This particular study focuses on the impacts of the project's financial education and loan programme, documenting the kinds of loans that youth accessed, youth satisfaction with financial education training and loan features, the effect of the loans on youth livelihoods and savings behaviour, and MFI staff insights on the efficacy of the program and how the loans could be improved. … 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 ›

Building Sustainable Business Models for Youth Financial Services ›

by Vivian Ibania Rivas Schurer, Robert Magala Lule, and Alice Lubwama

This comparative case study was developed as part of The SEEP Network’s Innovations in Youth Financial
Services Practitioner Learning Program (PLP) in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation. It examines
the experiences of Catholic Relief Services (CRS)-El Salvador, Enlace and FINCA Uganda as they work
to scale up their youth financial products through incorporation into sustainable business models.

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Effective Marketing for Scaling Up Financial Services to Youth ›

by Argentina de Quintanilla, Naran Batjargal, and Densmaa Togtokh

This toolkit was developed by Enlace and XacBank as part of The SEEP Network’s Innovations in Youth
Financial Services Practitioner Learning Program (PLP), in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation.
The purpose of this toolkit is to explore key differences in marketing financial services to youth
as compared to adults and to provide tools for practitioners looking to scale up their services through
marketing. … Read More ›

Institutionalizing Youth Financial Services to Achieve Scale ›

by Alice Lubwama and K.M.D.B. Rekogama

In this technical note, FINCA Uganda and Hatton National Bank Sri Lanka (HNB) explore key components and issues around the institutionalization of youth financial services, based on their individual experiences. Topics that are explored include key considerations, steps, and challenges of institutionalization. While some universal aspects of institutionalization are covered, this document primarily examines differences in institutionalizing youth financial products as opposed to financial products targeted to non-youth.… Read More ›

Reaching Scale with Financial Education for Youth ›

by Supun Dias and Oyunchimeg Siisel

This case study considers the role that financial education for youth can play in scaling up youth
financial services by examining the experiences of Hatton National Bank in Sri Lanka and XacBank in
Mongolia. Although these institutions differ on many levels, they have both found that financial education
for youth can help with their dual missions of business growth and corporate social responsibility.
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Guidelines and Experiences for Including Youth in Market Assessments for Stronger Youth Workforce Development Programs ›

by Melanie Beauvy-Sany, Sita Conklin

The goal of this learning product is to help the reader better understand how to strengthen market assessments for youth workforce development programs. It considers issues, such as institutional capacity, local context, appropriate tools and approaches, and including youth in these assessments. … Read More ›

Market-Driven Youth Programs and the Bottom Line: Using Income-Generating Activities to Make Programs 100% Market Driven ›

by Melanie Beauvy-Sany, Sita Conklin

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