Why Measuring Child-Level Impacts Can Help Achieve Lasting Economic Change
Why should economic strengthening (ES) projects monitor and measure how they affect children? Until recently, the development community has largely assumed that greater household economic welfare also...
View ArticleNext Generation Resilience for Vulnerable Communities
SEEP would like to thank International Business and Technical Consultants (IBTCI) and American University for organizing the symposium “Forging Resilience,” which built on the roundtable discussion...
View ArticleSaving Money, Saving Lives
The synergy that exists between development agents that need distribution channels for their messages and groups that want to engage in self and/ or community improvement presents a win-win situation....
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Combining Push and Pull Strategies for Greater Scale and Poverty Outreach
USAID’s Microenterprise and Private Enterprise Promotion (MPEP) and Food for Peace (FFP) offices are excited to come together to co-sponsor the Push/Pull track at SEEP’s 2014 Annual Conference....
View ArticleBanking on Girls: From Piggy Banks to Savings Accounts
This webinar constituted the first installment of the Understanding Youth and their Financial Needs webinar series. The first installment in this webinar series focused on using market research to...
View ArticleBuilding More Inclusive Markets by Integrating the Extremely Poor
This webinar constituted the first installment of the Towards Resilient Livelihoods for Very Poor Households webinar series. Integrating extremely poor producers into output markets is a project...
View ArticleAfter Haiyan: Integrated Programming for Economic Recovery
This webinar constituted the first installment of the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards webinar series. The first installment in this webinar series focused on the experiences of SEEP member...
View ArticleBreaking Barriers to Youth Entrepreneurship & Employment through Savings Groups
This webinar was jointly organized by SEEP’s Children, Youth and Economic Strengthening and Youth and Financial Services working groups. Can youth savings groups help foster entrepreneurship and...
View ArticleImproving Food Security through Inclusive Markets
This webinar was hosted by SEEP’s Strengthening the Economic Potential of the Ultra Poor (STEP UP) working group. This second webinar in the “Towards Resilient Livelihoods for Very Poor Households”...
View ArticleExpanding Youth Financial Services: Differentiated Products or Differentiated...
Providing young people with financial services in tandem with complementary non-financial services (such as financial education and skills training) comes with well-documented benefits. More financial...
View ArticleResource Watch: Best practices in youth-focused microfinance
New research coming soon! With the support of USAID and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation & Research in Economic...
View ArticleYouth Savings: How many research methods does it take to test an innovation?
A popular type of joke asks: “How many [insert a target group] does it take to change a lightbulb?” The punchline of the joke usually answers that it takes multiple members of the target group to...
View ArticleIncluding People with Disabilities in Economic Strengthening Initiatives
Download Transcript Here View & Download Presentation Here To end extreme poverty by 2030, it is critical that people with disabilities are included in all economic strengthening work. The 3rd...
View ArticleDesigning Loans for Youth: Lessons Learned from Market Research to Pilot
View & Download Presentation Here According to the World Bank, the MENA region suffers from one of the highest rates of financial exclusion in the world. The situation in Morocco, where only 4.3%...
View ArticleHow Incorporating Child-Level M&E can Magnify Economic Development
Economic development programs typically target adults as beneficiaries, and have tended to assume that the benefits they reap will naturally trickle down to the children in their households, leading to...
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Economic Strengthening Interventions and Adolescent Girls
View & Download Presentation Here Adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable. Helping them to build assets and skills can give them more options to negotiate in their lives, importantly around...
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Reflections on Recovery: Taking #MinRecov to the Great Lakes Region
My last direct contact with humanitarian aid work dates back to 1994, when I was eight years old. I went with my parents into one of the internal displacement (IDP) camps in Rwanda’s southern province...
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Launching ASPIRES Blog Mini-Series on Financial Inclusion: A Case for Orphans...
It might seem a strange proposition at first: the idea that orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDs be directly involved in activities that seek to promote access to financial services....
View ArticleA Case for Engaging Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Economic Strengthening
This blog post originally appeared on Microlinks on November 20, 2014. We are pleased to share it here with the SEEP community. In an interview for this blog series, Financial Inclusion: A Case for...
View ArticleFinancial inclusion yes, but don’t forget protection
This blog post originally appeared on Microlinks. We are pleased to share it here with the SEEP community. Community-based, savings-led microfinance for children and youth is a promising new frontier...
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