Digital Transformation

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Digital Financial Services Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits

What the 2025 Findex Means for Savings Groups and Digitization

By Maria Liu,
August 29, 2025

What the 2025 Findex Means for Savings Groups and Digitization

The release of the Global Findex 2025 offers a new snapshot of how people are connecting to financial services worldwide, and our team at DSG Hub is going to unpack what it means for digital savings groups and financial inclusion. For those of us working at the intersection of savings, credit, and digital innovation, several […]
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Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Project Implementation
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Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Project Implementation

Digitalizing Savings Groups in Sierra Leone

By Eric Kaduru, Julia Arnold
CARE
2025

Digitalizing Savings Groups in Sierra Leone

This brief outlines CARE Sierra Leone’s collaboration with MiKashBoks to digitize Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs). Through tailored app development, digital literacy training, and mobile money integration, the initiative improved financial management, safety, and autonomy for women. The pilot reached 81 groups, with plans to expand to 200, offering insights into inclusive digital transformation in low-connectivity contexts.
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Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Digitization Planning Digitization Risks & Barriers
DSG GESI Analysis Tool 2023
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Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Digitization Planning Digitization Risks & Barriers

DSG Gender & Inclusion Analysis Tool

By Paula Rudnicka
Global Communities
2023

DSG Gender & Inclusion Analysis Tool

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Crisis to Resilience
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Women Saving for Resilience: Transforming Lives Through Innovative Savings Group Solutions

By Paula Rudnicka
Global Communities
2023

Women Saving for Resilience: Transforming Lives Through Innovative Savings Group Solutions

This visual Crisis to Resilience story explores digital transformation and other innovations in savings group programming implemented under Global Communities‘ Women Empowered (WE) initiative. Women Empowered (WE) promotes social, economic, and political empowerment of women through community-based savings groups. Guided by the spirit of continuous innovation and adaptation, the WE program has formed and supported […]
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Global Digital Compact

Office of the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Technology
2023

Global Digital Compact

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Digital Recordkeeping Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Planning
Digitizing Savings Groups
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Digital Recordkeeping Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Planning

Digitizing BeninCajù Savings Groups – Pilot Project Reports

By Saïbou Noumonvi
TechnoServe
2023

Digitizing BeninCajù Savings Groups – Pilot Project Reports

This report offers insights from the pilot of DreamSave conducted in 2021-22 by TechnoServe and DreamStart Labs among 40 savings groups in the Zou, Collines and Borgou Departments in the Benin Republic. This included 31 pre-existing savings groups (“paper-to-digital”) and 9 newly formed groups (“born-digital”).
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Global Digital Development Forum
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Global Digital Development Forum 2023

USAID, Chemonics, IBM et al.
2023

Global Digital Development Forum 2023

On April 26-27, 2023, the Global Digital Development Forum was held online, co-organized by USAID, Chemonics, IBM, Deloitte, DAI, Google, RTI International, Save the Children, Interledger Foundation, Bixal, Palladium, and TechChange. While the event has now passed, anyone who is interested can still register here to access recorded sessions. All of the recorded sessions are […]
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Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Planning Digitization Risks & Barriers
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Taking Stock: How the DSG Hub is Serving the Savings Group Community

By Dietlind Lerner & Paulina Rudnicka
April 27, 2023

Taking Stock: How the DSG Hub is Serving the Savings Group Community

This blog presents the history behind the DSG Hub and key takeaways from our user engagement analysis.
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Digital Financial Services Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Risks & Barriers
Digitization of SACCOS in Uganda
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Digital Financial Services Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Risks & Barriers

Digitization of SACCOs in Uganda: Drivers and Impact Study

By David Nanambi Wayiku & Prisca Adong
Asigma & Mercy Corps
2023

Digitization of SACCOs in Uganda: Drivers and Impact Study

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Webinar: Innovations in Savings Group Programming for Women’s Empowerment

Global Communities
2023

Webinar: Innovations in Savings Group Programming for Women’s Empowerment

This NGO CSW67 Forum Parallel Event, hosted in March 2023 by Global Communities, explored innovations in savings group programming that have the potential to transform unequal gender norms, reduce violence, strengthen women’s digital and financial inclusion and expand the benefits of savings groups for members with limited literacy and numeracy. In addition to digitization of […]