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SILC Pro-Poor Strategy

Catholic Relief Services
2025

SILC Pro-Poor Strategy

CRS’ SILC Pro-Poor Strategy promotes more inclusive savings groups by removing barriers that exclude the poorest. Through flexible policies, inclusive messaging, and equitable pricing, the approach helps ensure all community members—regardless of income—can benefit from group membership.
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Digital Inclusion Social Inclusion
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Digital Inclusion Social Inclusion

The Value of Sharia-Compliant Savings Groups

Catholic Relief Services
2025

The Value of Sharia-Compliant Savings Groups

This brief from CRS explores how Sharia-compliant savings groups can expand financial inclusion in Muslim communities. By replacing interest with fixed fees, voluntary repayments, and group purchasing (Murabaha), these groups align with Islamic finance principles while still generating modest profit and fostering community trust. The model—successfully scaled in Niger—has seen strong acceptance from both members and religious leaders.
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Digitization Risks & Barriers Project Implementation
Jamii.one Digital Pilot
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Digitization Risks & Barriers Project Implementation

Can Digitalisation Interventions in Savings Groups Survive After the Project Ends?

By Joseph Maina
June 12, 2025

Can Digitalisation Interventions in Savings Groups Survive After the Project Ends?

Jamii.one Foundation reflects on its rapid digital rollout in Kenya, supporting over 700 savings groups to adopt digital ledgers—only to see usage plunge after project funding ended. This candid piece shares lessons on why uptake isn’t the same as sustainability and explores what’s needed to make digital tools stick post-project: deeper group ownership, incentive-aligned agent models, and linking digital use to real benefits like insurance.
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Basic Savings Group Record-Keeping App

By Hugh Allen
VSL Associates
2025

Basic Savings Group Record-Keeping App

Basic Savings Group Record-Keeping App is a Simple, Free, Stand-Alone Solution for Independent Savings Groups
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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 Transformation Digitization Benefits Digitization Risks & Barriers Gender

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.