Call for Resources | Savings Groups, Women & COVID-19

The SEEP Peer Learning Group on Savings Groups, Women and COVID-19 has selected two topics of investigation that we will spend the next year investigating, around which we will identify best practices, and for which we hope to develop and disseminate guidance through the SEEP network and financial inclusion sector.

These key topics are 1) Women's Voice & Leadership and 2) Strengthening Savings Group Resilience to Shocks.

Do you have experience to share? We seek tools, case studies, and project examples that have been successful or from which you have learned much related to these topics.

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Share Your Experience

1. Which of the key topics does your experience relate to? *This question is required.

Women's Voice & Leadership
Strengthening Savings Group Resilience to Shocks
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Please share your experience (tools, case studies, materials, lessons learned, etc.) relating to Women’s Voice and Leadership and the below key questions:

How do savings groups empower women, and how can they be leveraged as a vehicle for women’s collective action and wider social empowerment?
What needs to happen to make women’s voices and actions central in the COVID response and recovery efforts, and in other shocks and crises? What key actions can development organizations take to support this? What other actors or stakeholders should have leading roles?

Please share your experience (tools, case studies, materials, lessons learned, etc.) relating to Strengthening Savings Group Resilience to Shocks and the below key questions:

What do savings groups need in terms of support services and measures before, during, and after times of crises to ensure their continuation and success? What should be scaled post-COVID / post-crisis to build resilience in the financial sector more widely?
How can technology and financial services be leveraged to support savings groups in times of crises? What are the opportunities and limitations of digital and non-digital formal financial services in a crisis context such as COVID? How are they affected differently and similarly to savings groups, and how can the entire financial system be made more resilient?

2. Please share any additional links or resources you know of regarding one or both of the key themes.