Savings-Led Working Group (SLWG) Annual Meeting

Monday, October 21 | 1:30 - 5:00 pm

Please join us for our annual meeting and come prepared to discuss our strategic priorities and activities for the upcoming year. The agenda will also include an opportunity for members to share their experience, innovations, challenges, research and publications.

If you are interested in contributing to the meeting, please let us know. 

AGENDA 

1:30 – 1:45 PM | Welcome 

1:45 – 2:45 PM | SLWG Member Marketplace

• Using Behavioral Science for Financial Inclusion: It’s not Rocket Science, but it IS Science (World Relief and Grassroots Finance) 
• Geospatial Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Savings Groups (CARE International and Oxfam America) 
• Unlocking Sustainable Water through Savings Groups (The Water Trust) 
• Consumer Protection and Savings Groups: Risk Mitigation through Community-Based Structures (Catholic Relief Services) 
• How Savings Groups Responded to Insecurity and Theft in Madagascar (Catholic Relief Services) 
• The Sustainability of the Private Service Provider (PSP) Model: Key Results from an Ex-post Evaluation of the Expanding Financial Inclusion in Africa (EFI) Program (Itad) 
• Women’s Empowerment and Savings Groups: What do we Know? (Nathan Associates) 
• The Savings Groups Technology Toolkit (The SEEP Network) 
• Expanding the Cashbox: Leveraging Digitization and Linking Saving Groups to Financial Services (World Vision International)

2:45 – 3:00 PM | BREAK 

3:00 – 3:30 PM | FSD Zambia’s Sustainable Savings Group Approach and Emerging Lessons in Strategy Development (FSD Zambia)

3:30 – 5:00 PM | Annual Planning

• Working group priorities, objectives and outputs for 2020

We look forward to meeting with you!