Saving Groups: Post-Project Outcomes and New Technologies

1. Savings Groups:
Post-Project
Outcomes
and
New Technologies
CORE Group Global Health Practitioner
Conference May 2016
PaulRippeyPDX@gmail.com
www.Savings-Revolution.org

2. If you want to do
SG+ well,
you must do SG
well.

3. Forming excellent
savings groups is
simple.
But it’s not easy.

4. After climbing a great
hill, one only finds that
there are many more
hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

5. Two studies (Kenya, Uganda) showed the number of groups
tripling post project.

6. Growth in numbers
of groups
+
Growth in amount
saved by each group
=
New challenges

7. Rogue trainers, con
men, elites,
churches, MFIs and
banks, and common
thieves are looking
for ways to separate
the poor from their
money

8. The best protection
for groups is to
master procedures
and understand why
they are important.

9. There is a nascent
movement to put
resources into
helping the post-
project group with
training materials.
Video and apps
circulate virally – so
costs go way down.

10. Video training
can reinforce
person-to-
group cascade
training – or, if
necessary,
replace it

11. Apps like FSD
Kenya’s e-Recording
strengthen
bookkeeping

12. Bad news, good news
Good SG+ needs good SG
Large numbers of groups are formed post-project, and can
provide a platform for SG+
Groups are targeted post-project by various people trying to
help themselves to the members’ savings
New technologies enable us to help protect these groups