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January 26, 2018
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
Community-based Savings and Loans Schemes for Improved Livelihoods and WASH Service Delivery - the Northern Ghana Experience
A CRS project in northern Ghana uses savings groups to help rural communities build useful lump sums of money without excessive debt or interest payments. The groups are organized...More
October 16, 2017
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
Improving Livelihood Outcomes for People Living with HIV
This 11-page document provides an overview of the goals and accomplishments of a CRS-supported project in Tanzania where microfinance and agricultural needs were integrated into...More
October 16, 2017
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
Microfinance Learning Briefs
LEARNING BRIEF 1: Mobilizing Savings for CAURIE-MF Clients in Senegal (8 pages) This learning paper documents the experience of CAURIE-MF, a CRS partner in Senegal, during the...More
July 13, 2016
Research›Impact Evaluations
Strengthening Trade, Building Peace
This overview of the Commerçantes Solidaires pour la Paix/Région des Grands Lacs (COSOPAX/RGL) project shares testimonies from women working together to promote conflict...More
April 20, 2015
Research›Evaluations/Assessments
Delivering Health Microinsurance through Savings and Internal Lending Communities
Catholic Relief Services and partners piloted a health microinsurance product and delivered it through savings groups in Benin. We introduced a digital solution to improve...More
July 22, 2014
Research›Papers/Reports
Empowering Women Through Savings Groups
This gender study explores women’s participation and leadership in savings groups in the context of an integrated five-year USAID-funded Development Food Aid Program (DFAP) called...More
July 7, 2013
Research›Papers/Reports
How SILC Members Use Their Money
There is much anecdotal evidence to suggest participation in savings and internal lending communities (SILC) helps members to meet key household needs. However, there is little...More
March 2, 2013
Research›Papers/Reports
Protecting Malawian Children and Youth Through Social and Financial Entrepreneurship
This learning paper outlines the experiences and preliminary findings of a collaboration between Catholic Relief Services and Aflatoun. The program was designed to help strengthen...More
September 23, 2012
Research›Papers/Reports
An Evaluation of Household Impact Among Fee-for-Service Savings Groups
This paper shares findings from a large-scale Randomized Control Trial of households that participated in Savings and Internal Lending Community groups in Kenya, Tanzania and...More
September 9, 2012
Research›Papers/Reports
Banking with Mobile Phones in Haiti
In 2011, Catholic Relief Services utilized T-Cash, a new mobile phone–based banking service. The initiative improved the speed, security and cost of beneficiaries' banking...More