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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 […]
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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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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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Global Digital Compact
Office of the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Technology
2023
Global Digital Compact
In September 2021, the Secretary General of the United Nations released a report Our Common Agenda, which included a proposed Global Digital Compact to be agreed upon at the Summit of the Future in September 2024. This website includes information about the Compact, which is expected to “outline shared principles for an open, free and […]
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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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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 […]
Implement Digital Savings Group Projects
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Global Digital Compact
Office of the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Technology
2023
Global Digital Compact
In September 2021, the Secretary General of the United Nations released a report Our Common Agenda, which included a proposed Global Digital Compact to be agreed upon at the Summit of the Future in September 2024. This website includes information about the Compact, which is expected to “outline shared principles for an open, free and […]
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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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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 […]
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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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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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Digitization of SACCOs in Uganda: Drivers and Impact Study
By David Nanambi Wayiku & Prisca Adong
Asigma & Mercy Corps
2023