Building resilience of vulnerable people

Results to date

More than 7 million women, youth and farmers worldwide provided with inclusive financial and nonfinancial services since 2008


WHAT IS SCALE2SAVE AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Scale2Save is all about building resilience of vulnerable people

Scale2Save is WSBI’s Development Finance Practice. It aims at changing the way how financial service providers offer formal finance to rural women in enterprises and youth out of school making choices around work and life.

We assist financial services providers (FSPs) at providing better opportunities to these vulnerable people that allow them to handle acute cash-flow stress caused by shocks, invest in ecosystem-based adaptation and resilience to climate change, have better access to Digital Financial Services (DFS), Cash-In-Cash-Out (CICO) and other micro and small rural enterprise and farm business support services.

We do this by helping FSPs to access international flows of finance with a gender and climate lens for micro and small businesses and for youth on their pathways into formal employment and entrepreneurship. We also channel technical assistance grant funding to help these institutions gain better customer insights and build and track impact beyond access and inclusion

Examples of how we build an enabling ecosystem for impact

Bizy Tech Platform

Easy Club Platform

COLLABORATE

Scale2Save Builds on Decades of Experience

Scale2Save's parent WSBI and its sister organization ESBG have been supporting retail banks, international financial institutions, as well as financial policy makers and regulators since the early 1990s. Our know-how has led to inclusive financial services for whole swathes of previously unserved populations, directly impacting on several Sustainable Development Goals.

FUNDING AND IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERSHIPS SINCE 2008

RESEARCH WITH PARTNER INSTITUTIONS AND RESILIENCE FOR FARMERS AND YOUTH PROJECTS INTERVENTIONS

Scale2Save is also a learning initiative, aggregating demand and supply side insights and disseminating and discussing findings with international and national sector players

LEARNING QUESTIONS GUIDE US THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS:

Supply Side

What constitutes a viable business model for  flexible credit? How can guarantees and lending lines best be combined to solve the climate challenges financial institution customers face?

What is the value proposition for women in enterprises and youth out of school entering the labour market?

How can we accelerate the flow of adaptation and resilience finance and make sure it is delivered in a gender-smart way

How does the institutional model affect the ability to offer flexible credit to micro and small businesses hit by shock?

How and to what extent does institutional change improve the service offer to women and youth?

What are the external factors that block or facilitate financial service providers’ outreach strategies?

Demand Side

How and to what extent does credit in combination with other financial and nonfinancial services allow women to boost their businesses and youth to enter the labour market?

What financial and non-financial services do different groups of customers in the farm sector value, prioritize and need?

What are the external factors that block or facilitate women in businesses from accessing financing / young people to move quickly from school  into the labour market?

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