Saving Groups Conference 2015
The Power of Savings Groups
SG2015 represents a community of stakeholders committed to accelerating innovations through knowledge sharing and collaboration. With support from a number of the leading organizations that have championed SGs, this community has come together twice before (in 2011 and 2013) to collaborate, share best practices, and increase the impact of SGs worldwide. The community convenes again for SG2015: The Power of Savings Groups,taking place in Lusaka, Zambia. Specifically, the conference looks to achieve the following objectives:- Exploring innovations and technology enhancements to SG operations.
- Promoting SGs as a catalyst of broad development that engages cooperation across a growing and increasingly diverse community of SG supporters.
- Articulating coherent strategies that both maintain program quality and facilitate increased scale.
- Educating participants about new models and processes for linking SGs to formal financial institutions.
- Developing a research agenda to expand the evidence base for SG-related strategies.
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