Communitiy-Based Organizations

Selected resources on community based organizations mobilizing savings.

Cooperatives

• Jazayeri, A., Financial Services Association (FSA): concept and some lessons learnt, 2000
• Matthews, B., Towards Safety and Self-Reliance, 2005
• Mutesasira, L., Chao-Beroff, R., Cao, T. H. H., Vandenbroucke, J., Musinga, M. & Tiaro, E., A Comparative Analysis of Member-Based Microfinance Institutions in East and West Africa, 2001
• Staschen, S., Microsavings, microcredit and microinsurance: financial products of Small Farmer Co-operatives Ltd. in Nepal., 2001
• Zapata, G., Community Savings Funds - Providing Access to Basic Financial Services in Marginalized Rural Areas of Mexico, 2002

Informal Methodologies

• Basu, A., Blavy, R. & Yulek, M., Microfinance in Africa: Experience and Lessons from Selected African Countries, 2004
• Dzingirai, V., Saving to death: A study of group based and other savings arrangements in rural Chivi District, Zimbabwe, 2000
• Kalala, Jean-Pierre and Alpha Ouedraogo. Savings Products and Services in the Informal Sector and Microfinance Institutions in West Africa. The Cases of Mali and Benin., 2000
• Ouedraogo, A. & Kalala, J. P., Savings Products and Services in the Informal Sector and Microfinance Institutions in West Africa: The Case of Mali and Benin, 2001
• Seibel, H., Mainstreaming Informal Financial Institutions, 2001

ROSCAs

• Chiteji, N. S., Promises kept: enforcement and the role of rotating savings and credit associations in an economy, 2002

Self-Help Groups

• MacVicar, A. D., Federations: An Empowering Approach to Micro-credit Delivery, 2004
• UNDP, Changes in the Position and Status of Women's Group Within the Community, 2004
• UNDP, Design and Management of Microcredit Programme, 2004
• UNDP, Empowerment: Changes in the Lives of Individual Women, 2004

Village Banks

• Adler, M., Village Banks in Mali: A Successful Project of Self-Help Promotion, 2001
• Ashe, J. & Parrott, L., Pact's Women's Empowerment Program in Nepal: A Savings and Literacy Led Alternative to Financial Institution Building, 2001
• SEEP Network, Efforts to mitigate the impact of AIDS on clients, households and enterprises, 2004