Theme: Community-Based FIs, DFS and Coops

Twenty years ago, MicroSave was set up to try to support the development of savings and other non-credit services for low-income households.

Read the story behind how MicroSave started from a small project and grew to MSC (MicroSave Consulting) a boutique consulting company, through 20 years of hard work across geographies.

This presentation examines and discussed the caused of Andhra Pradesh crisis how the Indian MFIs and the government should respond post the crisis.

Community engagement initiatives must also consider the socio-cultural backdrop and capacity of the community members. However, to state that all community engagement is positive is taking a rather simplistic view of the multi-faceted problem of rural education.

In this edition of MicroSave’s ‘Low Income Lives’ series, Stuart Rutherford uses data from the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries to study how poor people in Bangladesh buy food.

This Note is a high-level peek into behavioural research method that MSC’s MI4ID approach uses to understand customers financial behaviour.