Savings and credit groups are becoming increasingly popular, both as a cost-efficient alternative to mainstream microfinance and as a mean to mobilize people around individual and common challenges. Whether donors should promote and support Self Help Microfinance Groups that confine themselves...

The purpose of this report is to give an overview of the contents of the SAVIX database as of December 2017. Starting with a brief background of savings groups,2 the report provides information on the geographical distribution of the savings groups in the database and group characteristics, such...