Community-based savings and microfinance have proven among the most resilient and empowering tools for financial inclusion, building assets, agency, and solidarity from the ground up. This advanced programme equips senior practitioners to design, lead, and strengthen savings groups and community microfinance that deliver lasting financial inclusion and economic empowerment.
Designed for an international audience from officer to director level, the programme integrates savings group methodologies, financial inclusion, group governance and sustainability, linkages to formal finance and digital services, and the measurement of economic and social outcomes. Participants learn to lead approaches that are member-owned, sustainable, and genuinely transformative.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Critically appraise community microfinance and savings groups
- Understand financial inclusion and exclusion
- Apply savings group methodologies
- Design and form savings groups
- Build group governance and management
- Strengthen financial literacy
- Manage savings, lending, and social funds
- Ensure transparency and member protection
- Build group sustainability and self-replication
- Link groups to formal financial services
- Integrate digital financial services
- Integrate savings groups with livelihoods
- Apply gender and inclusion approaches
- Manage risk and over-indebtedness
- Measure economic and social outcomes
- Anticipate emerging trends in financial inclusion
Course Outline
- Module 1: Community Microfinance & Savings Groups
- Module 2: Financial Inclusion & Exclusion
- Module 3: Savings Group Methodologies
- Module 4: Designing & Forming Savings Groups
- Module 5: Group Governance & Management
- Module 6: Financial Literacy
- Module 7: Managing Savings, Lending & Social Funds
- Module 8: Transparency & Member Protection
- Module 9: Group Sustainability & Self-Replication
- Module 10: Linking to Formal Financial Services
- Module 11: Digital Financial Services
- Module 12: Integrating with Livelihoods
- Module 13: Gender & Inclusion Approaches
- Module 14: Managing Risk & Over-Indebtedness
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Financial Inclusion
Who Should Attend
This advanced programme is designed for international financial inclusion and livelihoods specialists, savings group programme leads, programme directors, and senior officers working on community finance across INGO, national NGO, and microfinance settings.
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