Digitization Benefits
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Capital Musings Podcast Show
UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
2023
Capital Musings Podcast Show
The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) started its podcast show, Capital Musings, in September 2019 to platform individuals driving impact and change in the area of “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources to reduce poverty and support local economic development. All episodes can be found the Capital Musings website. While every […]
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Vendor and Product Showcase: DSG Technologies Advancing Financial Inclusion
Global Communities
2023
Vendor and Product Showcase: DSG Technologies Advancing Financial Inclusion
This virtual event, hosted on February 1, 2023 by Global Communities and the FAHU Foundation, explored a wide range of digital solutions designed for savings groups. Global Communities opened the Showcase by introducing the new and improved DSG Vendors and Products tool on the DSG Hub. Next, nine DSG vendors and innovators showcased their products […]
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Research
Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion
Devex and Visa
2022
Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion
This report showcases data-driven insights on the ways in which digital financial services, skills, and trust impact equitable and inclusive participation in the digital economy. Findings in the report show that initiatives must address the knowledge, confidence and trust needed for individuals to use the technology and services more effectively; programs are most effective when […]
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DSG Vendors and Products
By DSG Hub
Global Communities
2022
DSG Vendors and Products
The "DSG Vendors and Products" tool helps savings group actors identify the range of digital solutions available to fit their digitization needs.
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Scaling Up Access to Finance in Kigoma, Tanzania
UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
2022
Scaling Up Access to Finance in Kigoma, Tanzania
Under its global strategy of Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era, the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) promotes digital financial services (DFS) as foundational to inclusive social and economic development. In Tanzania, UNCDF’s work under the Kigoma Joint Programme (KJP) highlights the evolution from financial inclusion to inclusive digital economies. KJP interventions […]
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Savings Groups in the Digital Era: Promoting Gender-Responsive & Inclusive Digital Transformation
By Paula Rudnicka & Dennis Mello
Global Communities
2022
Savings Groups in the Digital Era: Promoting Gender-Responsive & Inclusive Digital Transformation
This presentation, featured at the Financial Inclusion Week 2022 organized by the Center for Financial Inclusion, explores key gender and inclusion considerations in the digital savings group (DSG) space and showcases new resources to support safe, inclusive and gender-responsive digitization of savings groups. These include the DSH Hub and the DSG Toolkit published in 2022 […]
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DSG Toolkit: Monitoring and Evaluation of DSG Projects
By Lauren Hendricks, Dennis Mello & Paulina (Paula) Rudnicka
Global Communities, Women for Women International
2022
DSG Toolkit: Monitoring and Evaluation of DSG Projects
This tool is designed to improve digital savings group (DSG) implementers’ understanding of the impacts of digitization on groups and their members using gender-sensitive indicators and monitoring approaches. The tool includes sample indicators and a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework. This tool is a part of the Digital Savings Group (DSG) Toolkit: Tools to Support […]
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Article
Digital Finance: Enhancing Women’s Participation in Village Savings and Loan Associations
By Natalie Petrulla
Agrilinks
2022
Digital Finance: Enhancing Women’s Participation in Village Savings and Loan Associations
This article summarizes the findings from the Feed the Future Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE II) project in Ghana, focusing on the impact of the project on Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and women’s empowerment. In partnership with the Mobile Telephone Network (MTN), ADVANCE II registered four VSLAs in Ghana’s northern region […]
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Blog Post
Savings-led Digital Finance: The Dawn of a New Era?
By Philip Acton & Finn Tiedemann
August 31, 2022
Savings-led Digital Finance: The Dawn of a New Era?
This blog explores “savings-led” digital finance apps, such as DreamSave, that use clients' savings capacity as a proxy for the ability to repay a loan, opening up a potential new era for digital finance.
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Brief
Digital Savings Groups In Uganda – A Learning Brief
U-Learn
2022
Digital Savings Groups In Uganda – A Learning Brief
This learning brief offers critical reflections on whether a savings group in the Uganda refugee response is ready to go digital, on the objectives for pursuing digitisation/digitalisation, and on key challenges in making the shift. The brief was developed by Uganda Learning, Evidence, Accountability, and Research Network (U-Learn) in collaboration with the Uganda Inter-Agency Cash […]