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Brief
Digital Savings Groups
By Mark Staehle
SEEP Network
2020
Digital Savings Groups
This learning brief examines the design options and essential tradeoffs in solution development based on a survey of 12 digital savings group (DSG) solution providers. The findings are outlined in six sections: 1) Introduction; 2) The benefits of savings groups; 3) User experience; 4) The business of DSGs; 5) Consumer protection, and 6) What will […]
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Research
Digital Savings Groups: Evidence from Tanzania
By Julia Arnold
Project Concern International (PCI), International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), DreamStart Labs
2020
Digital Savings Groups: Evidence from Tanzania
This report provides some of the first insights into how savings groups can successfully transition from paper to digital ledgers and examines some key hypotheses about digitizing savings groups. Specifically, the report presents findings from an evaluation of a pilot test of DreamSave—a digital savings ledger—conducted by Project Concern International (PCI)—A Global Communities Partner, DreamStart […]
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Tool
Digital Financial Services
Digitization Benefits
Digitization Planning
Digitization Risks & Barriers
Savings Groups’ Linkages Toolkit
By Hermann Messan et al.
United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
2020
Savings Groups’ Linkages Toolkit
This toolkit offers practical guidance to financial service providers (FSP) which are already providing or intend to provide formal financial services, including digital financial services (DFS), to savings groups. Insights and lessons offered in this toolkit are based on the experiences of six FSPs, which are UNCDF’s MicroLead partners in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, […]
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Training
Digital Literacy Training Guide: A Guide for Mobile Money Agents and Digital Literacy Change Agents
GSMA
2020
Digital Literacy Training Guide: A Guide for Mobile Money Agents and Digital Literacy Change Agents
The purpose of this training guide is to prepare mobile money agents and digital literacy change agents to educate people in their communities about the benefits of mobile money services and how to use them. The guide has seven modules with clear lesson plans and guidance for trainers. Participants will learn about the different ways […]
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Research
From Cash to Digital Savings Groups
Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), BFA Global
2018
From Cash to Digital Savings Groups
This study presents findings about the effects of digitization on women’s savings groups from a randomized control trial in Southern Tanzania. The trial was implemented in 2016-17 by the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), Selcom, and BFA Global. The product tested was a software platform built by AKF and Selcom that allowed group members to save, […]