Digitization Planning

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Digital Inclusion Digitization Planning Financial Inclusion
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Digital Inclusion Digitization Planning Financial Inclusion

Building Confidence with Digital Tools: Cambodian Leaders’ Experiences with DreamSave

By Barbara Toizer, Elene Cloete
January 30, 2026

Building Confidence with Digital Tools: Cambodian Leaders’ Experiences with DreamSave

Despite Cambodia’s recent economic growth, financial exclusion remains a challenge. According to the National Bank of Cambodia, 41% of adults still lack access to formal financial services, leaving families reliant on informal systems that are often insecure or predatory. Community savings groups offer an alternative, giving members a safe place to save, borrow, and invest […]
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Digital Inclusion Digitization Planning Digitization Risks & Barriers Gender
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Digital Inclusion Digitization Planning Digitization Risks & Barriers Gender

Digitalization & Gender Norms: Learnings from CARE’s Digital Pilot for VSLA Members in Rwanda & Uganda

By Eric Kaduru
CARE
2025

Digitalization & Gender Norms: Learnings from CARE’s Digital Pilot for VSLA Members in Rwanda & Uganda

Insights from CARE’s digital pilot with 100 VSLA groups in Rwanda and Uganda reveal how social norms limit women’s digital access—and what it takes to design safer, more inclusive digitalization efforts.
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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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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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Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Planning Digitization Risks & Barriers
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Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Planning Digitization Risks & Barriers

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 Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Costs Digitization Planning
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Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Costs Digitization Planning

Who Pays and for What? Assessing the Cost of Digitizing Savings Groups

By Simon Levell,
March 1, 2023

Who Pays and for What? Assessing the Cost of Digitizing Savings Groups

This blog explores the costs of implementing digital savings group projects.
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Data Privacy & Security Digital Literacy Digital Transformation Digitization Planning
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Data Privacy & Security Digital Literacy Digital Transformation Digitization Planning

Imfashanyigisho Y’ibigo By’ubwizigame Byo Mu Buryo Bw’ikoranabuhanga (DSG)

By Lauren Hendricks, Dennis Mello, Paula Rudnicka
Global Communities, Women for Women International
2023

Imfashanyigisho Y’ibigo By’ubwizigame Byo Mu Buryo Bw’ikoranabuhanga (DSG)

This version of the DSG Toolkit: Tools to Support Safe and Gender-responsive Digitization of Savings Groups translated from English into Kinyarwanda, consists of seven practical tools to support safe, effective, and gender-responsive digitization of savings groups. These tools include practical guidance for implementers and trainers across multiple aspects of digitization, such as: Each tool can […]
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Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Planning Technology Solutions
DSG Vendor and Product Showcase DSG Hub Tile 422 × 487 px
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Digital Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Planning Technology Solutions

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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Digital Inclusion Digital Literacy Digitization Planning Gender
Digital Financial Literacy
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Digital Inclusion Digital Literacy Digitization Planning Gender

Knowledge Guide: Digital Financial Literacy

FinEquity
2023

Knowledge Guide: Digital Financial Literacy

FinEquity has created a Digital Financial Literacy Knowledge Guide to showcase existing resources on digital financial literacy (DFL), which is as a key factor for women’s financial and digital inclusion. The guide is made up of three sections: good practice guidelines, implementation case studies, and example curricular. As with all FinEquity’s Knowledge Guides, this is […]
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Digital Inclusion Digital Transformation Digitization Planning Innovation
2023 01 31 07 27 56 6 Reasons Your Digital Innovations Can Fail to Reach Adoption and 3 more pages
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6 Reasons Your Digital Innovations Can Fail to Reach Adoption

By Laura Scanlon
ICTworks
2023

6 Reasons Your Digital Innovations Can Fail to Reach Adoption

The article discusses six key reasons why a digital innovation product or service would fail to become widely used. They are related to organizational structure and capacity, unrealistic expectations, magpie mentality, first impressions, measurement, and founder dependency. The article also offers suggestions to bolster adoption of digital innovations, including creating a roadmap to adoption, giving […]