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June 13, 2024
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
CRS and Savings-led Microfinance: Our Approach and Strategy
CRS’ Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) methodology is a holistic, savings-led microfinance approach that provides a safe place for poor households to save and borrow...More
June 5, 2024
Research›Papers/Reports
How Classroom SILC and Financial Education Help Students in Central America
Classroom SILC and financial education were developed to help children learn how to use money responsibly and develop organizational and leadership skills and empathy in a safe...More
May 30, 2024
Research›Papers/Reports
Food and Nutrition Security Enhanced Resilience Project in Zambia
Since 2015, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) under the “Transformation of Agricultural and Food Systems” (SEWOH), GIZ and its partners,...More
January 1, 2024
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
Value Chain Toolkit
The Value chain tool kit provides methods to support male (♂) and female (♀) farmers in the “Build to Grow to Prosper” phases of the CRS Pathway to Prosperity (Figure 1). Through...More
June 14, 2023
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
Innovating for Resilience
There is growing evidence that savings groups can be an essential source of financial resilience, particularly with regards to absorptive resilience capacity – helping buffer...More
April 13, 2023
Tools for Field Staff›Fact Sheet
Youth Entrepreneurship
Young people, ages 15–24, number more than 1.2 billion and represent one-quarter of the world’s population; yet many of them struggle to obtain decent work. Facing difficulties...More
March 2, 2023
Research›Papers/Reports
CRS offers Muslim communities sharia-compliant savings groups
This 3-page summary describes the CRS sharia-compliant SILC approach, as well as results from its implementation since 2019 in the USAID-funded Girma project. In response to...More
March 1, 2023
Research›Papers/Reports
Private Agricultural Service Provider (PASP) Model Last-Mile Agricultural Service Delivery for Smallholder Farm Families: 2021 PASP Survey Report
The 2021 PASP survey, whose results are reported here, aims to help CRS understand and measure the value of the PASP model to PASPs and their farmer customers. The survey...More
December 6, 2022
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
The Value of Sharia-Compliant Savings Groups
Conventional savings groups (SG) consist of 15-30 self-selecting members and provide their members with two means for obtaining useful lump sums of money to invest in business or...More
December 5, 2022
Tools for Field Staff›Manuals
SILC Field Agent Guide 5.1.1S-Sharia-compliant
The SILC FA Guide Version 5.1.1S is fully compliant with the Sharia (Islamic Law). It is grounded in the experience of pilot deployments in Mauritania and Sudan. It is suitable...More
