Training opportunities

Reduce your need for external consultants: Action research and systems thinking for emerging leaders working with savings groups and SACCOs. Informal and semi-formal savings groups, producer groups and SACCOs are important mechanisms to support households and small businesses to effectively save, borrow, build assets and cope with emergencies. These models reach vulnerable populations and regions in ways that institutions simply cannot. Yet much remains to learn about what it takes, in different contexts, to balance issues of scale, access and strong group governance and inclusion.

Systems thinking helps practitioners to think big-picture at the systemic level while action research helps to ground that thinking in practical strategic questions and adaptive problem solving. This course combines the latest research and sound practices in member-owned microfinance with support for on-the-ground strategic organizational research. By the end of this course, practitioners, whatever their research background, will have improved their leadership ability to write, be strategic, reflective and conduct research for stronger outreach, impact and structural change. With facilitator and peer support, participants will even pilot-test tools that they develop during the course.

This is the final year of the center’s funding partnership with the Mastercard Foundation so take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn from some of the best trainers in person or online!

Mastercard Foundation Scholarships Available

• Region Global
• Language English