Development Blog
Financial inclusion ‘Within Reach’: Collective investment by banks can pay dividends for all
By Gerry Boyle 21st Mar 2016
Banks have clear needs for support in bringing more people living in poverty into the formal financial sector, but the banks could push forward by working more cooperatively with one another in key areas.
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The panel at the Within Reach meeting in Bangladesh
By the numbers (Part 2): Estimating market sizes for informal group savings in Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe
By Nathan Randall 18th Mar 2016
As outlined in my previous blog, with so many people in all three countries preferring informal saving methods to banking, how large are these markets? How much total capital do they possess? And what can we learn from this?
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Members of the Tusoy Youth Group savings and loan association in Embu, Kenya
By the numbers (Part 1): Comparing financial inclusion and savings habits in Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe
By Nathan Randall 17th Mar 2016
As mentioned in my previous blog about savings groups in Tanzania, there are massive amounts of capital circulating informally in East Africa. CARE has pointed out time and time again that serving this market is a social and economic win-win…
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Members of the Tusoy Youth Group savings and loan association in Embu, Kenya
UK government commits more resources to conflict-affected and fragile states: but what does this mean for women?
By CARE International 17th Mar 2016
50 per cent of DFID’s budget is now allocated to conflict-affected and fragile states. The UK government is also demonstrating a leading role on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda with ambitious commitments made at the High-Level Review of…
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Nyanor Miakoh (centre) walked two days from her hometown of Panyang to Yida, in the far north of South Sudan's Unity State, to escape the violence that saw her lose her home, her livelihood and two members of her family (August 2014)
Size of the prize: Financial inclusion and the $380 billion revenue opportunity for banks
By Gerry Boyle 02nd Mar 2016
A recent research report from Accenture has highlighted the enormous revenue opportunity for banks which financial inclusion represents.
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An illustration from the Within Reach report
Post-disaster shelter: Why we have to stop calling permanent buildings temporary
By Tom Newby 01st Mar 2016
After disasters many international agencies, including CARE, undertake a whole range of projects to help affected people recover, including the construction of houses. These may be described as all sorts of things, including temporary shelter, transitional shelter, durable shelter, semi-permanent…
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A house originally described as temporary that has been maintained and upgraded in the years since construction: the owners have added a veranda and extended the length of the house
