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Q&As with Practitioners

The “Save Today, Better Tomorrow” road show in Uganda

Working at Both Ends: Enhancing Supply and Demand for Savings Mobilization in Rural Uganda.
Discover how Rural SPEED is working to enhance savings from both the supply and demand side.

Self Help Groups in India: How do they compare with other community finance models?
Highlight on Indian SHGs and series of interviews with leading practionners comparing the self help group model to other community finance models.

Banking on the Future
Interview with Chandula Abeywickrema from Hatton National Bank (Sri Lanka)

The Philippines: Expanding Mobile-Phone Banking to include Savings Services
Prepared by John V. Owens

Partnerships for Savings Mobilization
Q&A with Pilar Ramirez, FIE (Bolivia)

Reaching More Savers
Q&A with management and staff of ACSI in Ethiopia

Practitioners' Virtual Exchange:
"Serving Small Depositors: Meeting Demand while Managing Cost"

In December 2005, CGAP and MicroSave sponsored a practitioners' virtual exchange on savings mobilization facilitated by Madeline Hirschland.

To read a full report of all five days of the Virtual Exchange, click here. [PDF 120Kb]

Read daily summaries by clicking on the links below:

Cost Management
Product Mix
Delivery Options
Marketing / Promotion
Environmental Factors

Selling Savings Services: Highlights from a Q&A with the Experts

In October 2005, CGAP sponsored a 24-hour international Q&A session with three experts on marketing deposit services for the poor. Questions were submitted by individuals from around the world who are working to promote savings services. Click here to read more about our experts: Jose Linares Fontela, Gerry Lab-Oyan, and Susan Nkugwa Nsibirwa. Our thanks to the participants for their thoughtful questions and to the experts for their valuable responses!

Read the chat summary to see highlights from the chat, including answers to questions such as:

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