Formalising Informality: Savings Groups, Community Finance and the Role of FSD Kenya

This case study looks at the efforts FSD Kenya has made to strengthen semi-formal rural delivery channels and build linkages with formal financial service providers through savings groups. It also considers the extent to which FSD Kenya’s strategy and approach governing the support to savings groups was consistent with basic making markets work for the poor (M4P) principles as codified in the “The Operational Guide for the Making Markets Work for the Poor Approach.