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July 27, 2008
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
Developing Agriculture Loan Products for Poor Rural Communities
Examines key lessons learned by Metemamen MF, a microfinance partner of CRS in Ethiopia, during the pilot testing of a new loan product for rural poor farmers. The paper shares...More
February 10, 2009
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
Increasing Savings and Solidarity among Households with Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Rwanda
This learning paper looks at linking the Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) methodology with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming in Rwanda. CRS...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
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
Increasing Savings and Solidarity among Households with Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Rwanda [Spanish version]
This learning paper looks at linking the Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) methodology with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming in Rwanda. CRS...More
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
July 24, 2018
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
TANGIBLE BENEFITS TO CHILD WELLBEING SEEN AMONG HOUSEHOLDS PARTICIPATING IN SAVINGS AND INTERNAL LENDING COMMUNITIES (SILC)
This 4-page brief shares data about the effect of savings groups -- which CRS calls "SILC" (Savings and Internal Lending Communities) -- on vulnerable households in Nigeria...More
July 24, 2018
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
SMILE OVC PROGRAM USES TARGETED APPROACH TO BOOST TB CASE-FINDING AMONG VULNERABLE CHILDREN
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one million children (<15 years) currently suffer from tuberculosis (TB) worldwide, and more than 210,000 die each year. In...More
December 8, 2021
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
SILC Pro-Poor Strategy
The SILC Pro-Poor Strategy seeks to promote the inclusion of poorer community members in SILC. The strategy comprises promotional approaches, new group savings policies and SILC...More
March 16, 2022
Tools for Field Staff›Learning Briefs
An Empirical Risk Assessment of Savings Groups
These are questions that the SEEP Network set out to address through a risk assessment of Savings Groups conducted in 2018. Together with three research partners – the Aga Khan...More
