Savings-Led Working Group Newsletter
April - June 2019
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SLWG MID-YEAR MEETING
Join the Call on May 14
Join us on
May 14 at 9:00 am EDT for an update on the 2019 learning agenda, opportunities for collaboration with fellow working group members, and an orientation to the new SLWG communications platform.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend!
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NEWS
SG2020 is Coming to Durban!
We are delighted to announce that SEEP will host the next Global Savings Groups Conference in Durban, South Africa.
SG2020: The Power of Savings Groups will engage a large and diverse community of stakeholders, strengthen partnerships and alliances, mobilize knowledge, expand access to technical resources, and develop and promote improved standards of practice. Stay tuned for more details!
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2019 SEEP ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Submit a Session Proposal
This year's technical track on
Fostering Resilience through Financial Inclusion will explore both proven and innovative strategies to develop resilience in financial systems, communities, and households; and look at products, services, and technologies that help households and enterprises better mitigate risks associated with climate variability, illness and disease, political instability, and conflict.
Interested?
Review or
download the detailed Request for Proposals for Peer Learning Sessions to get started. Feel free to reach out to
your SLWG co-facilitators for support in connecting with other interested organizations and speakers.
Submissions are due May 31.
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NATIONAL STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOPS
Women’s Empowerment and Savings Groups
SEEP, in association with Nathan Associates and FSD Africa, is pleased to announce two national stakeholder workshops on Savings Groups and women’s empowerment to be held in July 2019.
These workshops will introduce participants to the evidence on Savings Groups and women’s empowerment, good practices to sustain and enhance outcomes, and tools and resources for results measurement.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tuesday, July 2
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Friday, July 5
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Learn with SEEP: Resource Spotlight
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Women’s Empowerment and Savings Groups:
What Do We Know?
This learning brief examines the pathways between Savings Groups and women’s empowerment, the evidence with respect to various outcome areas, and how women’s empowerment outcomes can be enhanced and better sustained through Savings Groups.
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Digital Savings Groups
This new video about DreamSave describes how digital recordkeeping applications can improve the impact of Savings Groups – shortening meetings, improving transparency, and expanding access to formal financial services.
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Learn with SEEP: Webinars on Demand
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Women’s Empowerment and Savings Groups: Monitoring and Results Measurement Toolkit
(June 2019)
A companion to the recently published learning brief on Savings Groups and women’s empowerment, the monitoring and results measurement toolkit includes evidence-based theories of change, develops a set of standardized indicators, and recommends existing tools and resources to facilitate measurement and learning.
Case Study Series on Savings Groups and Consumer Protection (June 2019)
Building upon the recent risk assessment of Savings Groups, The SEEP Network is conducting a case study series on Savings Groups and consumer protection. The series, developed in collaboration with Arora Associates and Catholic Relief Services, provides a detailed account of various approaches to ensure that members and groups have the capacity to protect themselves, development and market actors act responsibly, and regulation, if required, is effective.
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Member Spotlight
The
Policy Experimentation & Evaluation Platform (PEEP) supports evidence-based policymaking in education reform and economic development. PEEP coordinated the Youth Start Entrepreneurial Challenges – Europe's largest policy experimentation project in entrepreneurship education – and is co-leading the SG4Africa, a savings groups research project implemented through a network of academic partners in more than a dozen African countries. SG4Africa teams are currently carrying out research on the emergence of Africa's middle-class and the relationship between savings groups and formal financial institutions.
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What We’re Reading
By Jeff Ashe, Lina Makino, and Gene Bianco
By Yusef Salehi, Oxford Policy Management
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Upcoming Events
May 2 – June 28 | Course | Online | Centre for Microfinance and Enterprise Development Zambia
May 14 | Meeting | Virtual | The SEEP Network
July 2 | Meeting | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | The SEEP Network
July 5 | Meeting | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | The SEEP Network
August 26 - September 6 | Course | Pietermaritzburg, South Africa | The Carsey School of Public Policy
September 19-20 | Conference | New Delhi, India | Sa-Dhan
October 21-23 | Conference | Arlington, VA, USA | The SEEP Network
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