• Capacity Development Provider

SaveAct

SaveAct facilitates the formation of savings and credit groups in rural communities as a simple but effective tool to fight poverty, as a foundation for building sustainable livelihoods, and as a means to empower women and other vulnerable groups. Available programmes include finanical Last Mile Access, Savings Groups and Financial Capability, Livelihoods and Enterprise Development, and Building ecosystems. These programmes are aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty and empowering individuals and communities to play more active roles in economic and social development.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Cohort or group support
    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Access to networks and partners
    • Value / supply chain development
    • Ideation
    • Sector development
    • Technology development or adoption

  • Investment Instruments

    • Grant

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Conduct research on the sector
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Supply chain services
    • Financial services

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Accessibility
    • Advocacy
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Rural communities
    • Gender inclusion
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Urban communities
    • Resiliency / climate change
    • Minority or previously excluded population
    • Franchising
    • Refugees and migration

  • Impact objectives

    • Agricultural productivity
    • Capacity building
    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Food security and nutrition
    • Health improvement
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Access to information
    • Equality and empowerment
    • Access to financial services
    • Human rights protection or expansion
    • Access to energy
    • Natural resources conservation

  • Verticals

    • Data analytics
    • E-commerce
    • FinTech
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