Savings Groups and Poverty
The Savings Group Action Team was recently formed to discover the best ways to use Savings Groups to fight poverty, and to come up with a plan so that everyone on Earth who wants to be a member, can be one.
2014: Some Reflections
Having done virtually no field work this year I’ve had more time away from the minutiae of individual projects to follow some of the broader themes I find interesting and relevant.
Trim Tabs and Savings Groups
Good development work is about putting in small inputs which help existing systems work better.
ROSCAs Revisited!
Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) are groups in which every member contributes the same amount every meeting
Excellence Pt 3: How do You Measure "Quality"?
I have been asking the question, “How do you measure quality in a Savings Group?”
Which 'Savings' - Spend Later or Don't Spend at all?
Like so many English words, “Save” has multiple senses
e-Recording Reaches Rwanda
It has been nearly five months since World Relief first attempted to pilot the e-Recording app in Rwanda.
Who's Gonna Save your e-Soul?
When we do things digitally, we leave behind us a sparkling trail of data.
Excellence, Part 2: Bad Things Happen
Looking through `Excellence, Part 1´ I wonder ...
Thulisile Sithole - Proud Homeowner
Thulisile Sithole (33) is a member of Ikhwezi SCG (savings and credit group) in Limehill, a peri-urban area in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Imagining a World Without Banks
National Public Radio has an interesting podcast called “A World Without Banks”. Here’s what they say on their site:
The Inclusionist vs. The Affordable Care Act
A few months ago, the instructor of a user design workshop challenged the class to redraft the Healthcare.gov website, the official site of the Affordable Care Act.
Shared Value Communities - Trust, Sharing, Collective Intelligence
A famous 16th century Portuguese poet, Luis Vaz de Camões, once wrote: necessity refines ingenuity ...
If You Care about Health, Read This
If you work in savings groups and at the same time you are working to reduce the impact of malaria, ...
153 million dollars available to form SGs in Nigeria
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Savings Revolution sold to Barclays Bank
Kim Wilson and Paul Rippey announced yesterday that the Savings Revolution website has been sold to Barclays Bank for undisclosed considerations.
E-Recording Reaches Rwanda! (pt. 1)
World Relief decided to start piloting the e-Recording app in Rwanda.