MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: MicroSave Releases Third Publication Under its Optimising Performance and Efficiency (OPE) Series, Entitled “The Savings Booklet”

MicroSave, a technical assistance, training and technical resource center for microfinance established in Uganda in 1998, has released the third publication under its Optimising Performance and Efficiency (OPE) Series, entitled “The Savings Booklet.” The purpose of the OPE Series is “providing microfinance practitioners with practical and actionable advice.” This third publication, as its name suggests, will “stress… the need for savings services… to the poor.” The booklet combines a set of publications and is divided into three sections: “The Demand for Savings Services Amongst the Poor,” “Opportunities and Challenges of Supplying Savings Servics to the Poor” and “Regulatory Issues” [1]. The booklet is currently only available to MicroSave website members at: http://www.microsave.org/system/files/briefing_notes/Savings_Booklet.pdf.

By Julia Korn, Research Associate

About MicroSave:

Established in Uganda in 1998, MicroSave is a technical assistance, training and technical resource center. According to its website, it was “designed and financed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)… to address the mono-credit culture prevalent in East and Southern Africa.” In 2008, MicroSave was transformed into a consulting company, which has since completed projects in Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. MicroSave has also established a presence in India with support from ICICI Bank.

Sources and Additional Resources:

[1] MicroSave. “Savings Booklet.” http://www.microsave.org/briefing_notes/savings-booklet

MicroCapital. “MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: MicroSave Releases Podcast on the 2007 Initial Public Offering of Mexican Microfinance Lender Compartamos” by Stefanie Rubin on May 10, 2010. https://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-microsave-releases-podcast-on-the-2007-initial-public-offering-of-mexican-microfinance-lender-compartamos/

MicroCapital Universe. MicroSave. https://www.microcapital.org/microfinanceuniverse/tiki-index.php?page=MicroSave

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