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Digitizing 500 savings groups in Kenya while supporting 10,000 existing users, this project introduces bundled microinsurance and telemedicine to boost crisis resilience, health access, and financial inclusion for low-income communities through innovative digital tools.

This project evaluates nearly 10,000 VSLAs launched by Dutabarane since 2009. It aims to identify active groups, assess their development, and regroup mature ones into federations to inspire future projects and strengthen income-generating capacity.

The DSG Hub is an online platform supporting safe and inclusive digitization of savings groups. It fosters learning, collaboration, and innovation, especially for women and marginalized communities, while empowering global actors to make informed digital decisions.

This project evaluates the long-term impact of 330 savings groups formed in El Salvador in 2008–2011. It investigates how many remain active, why some disbanded, and captures lessons through qualitative and quantitative research and a documentary video.

This project pilots a scalable model to boost agricultural productivity for 1,250 savings group members in Uganda. By combining loans, equipment, and video-based training, it aims to increase income and test a sustainable business model for future expansion.

REAL strengthens food security by addressing key barriers like low yields, poor market access, and credit gaps. FAHU supports savings groups in refugee settlements by promoting digital recordkeeping, federations, and financial training for 600+ members.

Aims to onboard 2,000 new users to the Jamii.one platform, improve digital and financial literacy, and explore affordable insurance solutions for savings group members in Kenya. The pilot also tests a self-sustaining model through service provider partnerships.

Using the VSLA.online app, Hiveonline helps 89 savings groups in rural Mozambique improve transparency and recordkeeping. The project builds financial history to unlock credit and insurance access, aiming to reach 40,000 producers through cooperatives.

This transition phase focused on maintaining and enhancing the DSG Hub platform with interactive features, continued community engagement, and fresh content creation. The project developed showcase resources while sustaining the platform's role as the central knowledge hub for digital savings group practitioners worldwide.

This second phase of the DSG Hub focused on ongoing project management, content development, website operations, and data collection to better understand user engagement, helping global savings group practitioners make informed decisions about digitization.

This project in Burundi's Ruyigi province aims to build capacity for 7,500 households by creating 200 new savings groups, strengthening 100 existing groups, and establishing 10 federations, while providing financial literacy and business development training to 1,500 members, with an impact on 37,500 indirect beneficiaries.

This first phase of the DSG Hub established an online learning platform for the global savings group community, facilitating safe and inclusive digitization of savings groups with objectives focused on website development, community management, and content curation for practitioners and researchers.

Following a landscape assessment showing high demand for digital savings group resources, this project created a vendor-neutral toolkit website featuring practical resources for practitioners, including learning briefs, guides, case studies, and blogs to share best practices and lessons learned across the sector.

This third phase of the VSLA E-Learning project established and validated guidelines for using the simulation game app in real-world settings, documenting its impact compared to traditional implementations, with findings disseminated through conferences, partner networks, and microfinance forums.

This project brought digital financial services to disadvantaged women in Niger through a blockchain-based platform for savings groups, building credit history, enabling secure cashless transactions, reducing corruption, and creating new market opportunities despite low formal banking access and limited internet penetration.

This research project in Tanzania studied digital savings groups using the DreamSave app, creating eight 'born digital' groups to analyze how digital tools impact group dynamics, with findings published in three research briefs highlighting key insights from rural communities.

This project provided funding to enhance the graphics and user experience of the SAVIX MIS database, which offers transparent and standardized data on savings groups worldwide, making the platform more accessible and functional for global users.

This project empowered savings groups by utilizing SAVIX tools to collect data from over 30,000 people across Africa, helping Danish organizations better understand group performance, dynamics, and survival rates, while creating a valuable database to inform future investments and improvements.

This project analyzed data from SAVIX, which tracks over 250,000 savings groups globally, to identify optimal delivery models and governance structures that enhance group performance, with findings presented at the European Microfinance Platform conference in Luxembourg.

This second phase funded midline and endline surveys of a randomized controlled trial studying how bank linkages affect savings groups in Uganda, testing whether members with access to external bank credit borrow and invest more, thus fostering micro-enterprise development and increasing household income.

This second phase of the VSLA App project focused on extensive piloting with key stakeholders, further app development, and wider dissemination to organizations working with savings groups across the Global South, including implementation networks and comprehensive testing in Uganda and Rwanda.

This project developed a scalable model for delivering family planning services to 420 Savings for Change groups in Mali, focusing on improving women's access to reproductive health information and services, with key findings highlighting the importance of male involvement in family planning decisions.

This project funded the field-based costs of a PhD study on how external financial linkages affect savings groups in Uganda, including baseline studies, randomized control trials, and qualitative research to analyze impacts at both group and individual levels.

This innovative project developed a gamified e-learning simulation for Village Savings and Loan Association methodology, allowing participants to experience group constitution, savings meetings, and loan processes through an interactive digital platform, significantly reducing training costs compared to traditional face-to-face courses.

This initiative established a comprehensive risk management program in Ethiopia's Amhara region, enabling 450 farmers to access weather insurance through labor contributions, while forming 30 savings groups to help food-insecure households better manage weather vulnerability and improve livelihoods.

This project strengthened 66 women's savings groups in Cambodia, addressing food security and improving livelihoods through microbusiness training, technical support for cooperatives, rice banks, water wells, and home gardens, while building local partner capacity.

This project addresses poverty in Malawi by empowering vulnerable households, especially women, through the creation of 85 new VSLAs and strengthening of 15 existing groups, using innovative community-based methods and mobile monitoring while focusing on self-replication through village agents.

This project mobilized and supported 200 Village Savings and Loan Associations with 5,000 members in Uganda, with a special focus on including persons with disabilities (10% of membership). It provided business development services and established sustainable village agent networks.

This two-phase project created Village Savings and Loan Associations for 1,800 rural women in Chalatenango, El Salvador, focusing on those affected by civil war and refugee situations. The initiative aimed at self-replication with ongoing facilitation by Oxfam America after FAHU's involvement ended.

This project established a microloan fund at EARTH University in Costa Rica to finance student-run agricultural businesses, supporting 97 micro enterprises with a sustainable model where repaid loans with interest funded future entrepreneurial cycles.

This project increased D-MIRO's loan fund to provide microcredit to people with HIV/AIDS in Ecuador, one of the country's most marginalized groups, with Misjonsalliansen matching FAHU's contribution to expand financial inclusion and HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.

This project aimed to equalize opportunities for people with disabilities in Uganda to participate in CARE's Sustain Microfinance Program, through research, workshops, mobilization activities, and dedicated staff support.

This project aimed to establish 150 Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in Nepal, targeting the most vulnerable groups including dalits and women, building on previous FAHU-funded assessments of local saving and credit concepts.

This project focuses on assessing and implementing suitable saving and credit concepts for vulnerable groups in Nepal, particularly dalits and women, by conducting pilots to determine the most effective local approaches.