LAPO Microfinance Bank learned five important lessons from their experience using a human-centered design process to revamp their child savings account product.

Teshome Dayesso, co-founder and CEO of Buusaa Gonofaa, discusses his MFI's savings journey and the challenges they have faced over the past year due to the pandemic and political uncertainty.

More radical organizational change - in the form of self-management - is needed to solve microfinance’s optimization problem. 

Muktinath Bikas Bank offers eight different savings products, specially designed for rural and low-income people in Nepal. The 2020 European Microfinance Award winner shares their experience with savings from before and during the pandemic.

World Vision shares how they are working to support community-level financial institutions and promote grassroots-level transformation of the financial system

Informal Savings Mechanisms (ISMs) have long been important to many people’s day-to-day money management across Africa. But as formal financial services become much more prevalent in the region, what will happen to these ISMs? Will they fall by the wayside as the digital revolution takes over? 

Five key questions we have (partially) answered so far at the Savings Learning Lab

The Gateway sat down with Sybil Chidiac of Grameen Foundation to discuss what works and what doesn't when tailoring savings groups to serve vulnerable populations. 

A case study with two financial service providers in Burkina Faso explores seven risks involved in bringing savings groups into digital finance.