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Join us on Thursday July 23rd and Friday July 24th for an online discussion as we attempt to answer the question: Is SPM relevant for community-managed savings and loan methodologies?

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Dear all,

This past Monday I spoke with Rewa Misra, of the Coady International Institute at St Francis Xavier University, and Sean Kline, co-founder and Executive Director of Reach Global, about SPM vis-à-vis community-managed savings and loan groups.

I’ve uploaded the best bits of our conversation, roughly covering 5 themes: Goals of community-managed savings and loan programs, assessing the impacts of these programs, their mission and the possible relevancy of SPM, information collection and analysis and potential entry points to SPM for community-managed finance.

I encourage you all to have a listen to the conversations and then post your comments and questions for the group to this space. I've set up discussion threads on each of the five topics to keep our discussions on track, but if you've a burning issue that's not addressed, please feel free to start your own thread.

My apologies in advance for the sometimes imperfect sound quality – The conversation was recorded over Skype!

Looking forward to hearing your input,

Jessie

Goals of community-managed savings and loan programs:

Assessing the impacts of programs:

Mission and the possible relevancy of SPM:

Information collection and analysis:

Potential entry points to SPM for community-managed finance:

Rewa references a study on member-owned, community-managed financial services. more information is available on the Coady website.

Discussion Forum

Potential entry points to SPM for community-managed finance 5 Replies

Started by Jessie Tientcheu. Last reply by Anthony Oundo Mang'eni Jan 9.

Assessing the impacts of programs 11 Replies

Started by Jessie Tientcheu. Last reply by LB Prakash Jul 30, 2009.

Practical examples 6 Replies

Started by Anton Simanowitz. Last reply by Sara Duke Jul 29, 2009.

Goals of community-managed savings and loan programs 10 Replies

Started by Jessie Tientcheu. Last reply by Sara Duke Jul 29, 2009.

the services from clients 2 Replies

Started by Farhat Abbas Shah. Last reply by Sara Duke Jul 29, 2009.

Information collection and analysis 9 Replies

Started by Jessie Tientcheu. Last reply by Sara Duke Jul 29, 2009.

Mission and the relevancy of SPM 9 Replies

Started by Jessie Tientcheu. Last reply by Sara Duke Jul 29, 2009.

Is SPM relevant for community-managed savings and loan methodologies? 2 Replies

Started by Jessie Tientcheu. Last reply by LB Prakash Jul 25, 2009.

Format for online discussion of SPM & Savings-led methodologies

Started by Jessie Tientcheu Jul 22, 2009.

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Comment by Nanci Lee on July 28, 2009 at 16:58: Sorry to have missed this discussion. I think there is great opportunity to use povety score-cords with the savings-led groups. I just came back from a base-line assessment in Ethiopia with FARM Africa. We used poverty-score-cards, pointed household surveys on assets and focus groups. Would like to hear other applications with score-cards or combining quantitative and qualitative. best, Nanci

Comment by souren ghosal on July 22, 2009 at 6:07: Indeed it is happy augury to conceptualize strategy to link SPM with banking.
DR.S.N.GHOSAL

Comment by Farhat Abbas Shah on July 8, 2009 at 4:49: Dear Mabry,
Kindly guide us about the time. when it will start and end on Thursday 23 July and Friday24 July. What will be time in Pakistan?

Comment by Ricardo Segovia on July 3, 2009 at 2:05: Estoy tratando de entender la pregunta debido a que cualquier tipo de programa cuyo objetivo sea la de proveer creditos y ahorros a la los diversos sectores de la sociedad especialmente a aquellos que no tienen o no han tenido este tipo de oportunidad crediticia tiene su razon de ser el evaluar el efecto social y ademas economico de su trabajo.
Si Jessie podria explicarme mas sobre el origen de esta pregunta le agradeceria debido a que a lo mejor ella esta pensando en la dificultad que existe para haccerlo,a lo improductivo que podria llegar a ser en poblaciones extremadamente pobres o etc.