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Lessons Learned

Beyond Money: Savings groups as a platform for addressing root causes of gender inequality

October 9, 2024

The potential of savings groups goes beyond money. CARE sees savings groups as an effective platform for greater gender equality beyond women as individuals. This learning report aims start a conversation about the role of savings groups in addressing systemic gender inequities in markets.

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Strong Foundations: Prerequisites for addressing root causes of gender inequality through savings groups

October 9, 2024

Comprehensive VSLAs which address root causes of gender inequality are underpinned by a strong foundation within the program team. This brief outlines the prerequisites CARE believes it is important for VSLA projects to consider before engaging on gender equality.

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Annex: Projects & impacts reviewed for the VSLA gender equality learning report

October 9, 2024

This annex provides further details on the project review process behind the learning report Beyond money: Savings groups as a platform for addressing root causes of gender inequality. It lists project details, evidence sources and the methodology used.

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Impact Brief: Her Money, Her Life

October 8, 2024

The Her Money, Her Life project in Tanzania is maximizing the potential benefits women receive from their crops through a focus on entrepreneurship and collective investment. This impact brief outlines how the project uses VSLAs as a platform to support women in improving their income, leading change in their communities, and challenging traditional roles in the tea value chain.

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SOAR III: YSLAs and Education in Nepal

September 20, 2024

The SOAR III project, which uses the UDAAN model, integrated Youth Savings and Loan Associations (YSLAs) into education programs to help girls overcome financial barriers to schooling and foster a savings habit. As a result, out-of-school girls re-enrolled in education, started businesses, and gained confidence in their potential as leaders. Gender-transformative impacts were driven by community sessions promoting gender dialogue, girl-led collective action, and the involvement of fathers, religious leaders, and teachers to support girls’ education and raise awareness of gender-based violence.

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AWEEV: Gender Equality through VSLAs in Vietnam

September 19, 2024

The Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment in Vietnam (AWEEV) project works with VSLA members and their communities in poor rural and ethnic minority areas to increase women’s participation in paid economic activities. VSLAs are central to the projects efforts to address barriers to gender equality and inequities in markets.

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Impact Reports

Sugu Yiriwa: Multi-Stakeholder Platforms Learning Brief

July 31, 2024

This learning brief explores Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) as a potential solution to sustainably address existing organizational and institutional challenges in agro-sylvopastoral value chains in the delta area (Mopti-Tombouctou). The brief highlights how these platforms are increasingly at the forefront of all marketing events to foster sustainable markets linkages between different value chain actors, negotiate contracts, and access financial services to create inclusive and profitable market opportunities for small-scale farmers and businesses.

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SHOUHARDO III: Gender Equality through VSLAs in Bangladesh

July 16, 2024

VSLAs are a core component of the SHOUHARDO project’s long-term efforts to improve food security & resilience in Bangladesh.

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Rupantaran: Gender Equality through VSLAs in Nepal

July 15, 2024

The Rupantaran project builds on a decade of work with landless and smallholder farmers in rural Nepal to increase resilience and improve their livelihoods. Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) were added to the Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS) model as a key way to challenge social norms around women’s participation and decision making, explore opportunities and promote economic empowerment.

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Her Money, Her Life: Gender Equality through VSLAs in Tanzania

July 12, 2024

The Her Money, Her Life project in Tanzania is maximizing the potential benefits women receive from their crops through a focus on entrepreneurship and collective investment. This brief outlines how the project uses VSLAs as a platform to address root causes of gender inequality.