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Savings Groups in the Digital Era: Promoting Gender-Responsive & Inclusive Digital Transformation

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Paula Rudnicka & Dennis Mello
2022
Global Communities
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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 by Global Communities and Women for Women International.

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