Publications

An overview of FSD Kenya's activities in 2016

Using market based approach to build the livelihoods of poor households

How mobile money is impacting social life in Western Kenya.

An overview of FSD Kenya's activities in 2015

The aim of this book is to stimulate debate on how we analyse and think about the future of market development and its implications for poverty and growth. The book was commissioned by Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya as an invitation to scholars to dig more deeply into the data that have been collected over […]

The latest FinAccess survey provides evidence of how a new generation of digital services is shaping the financial landscape.

A brief overview of the use of savings groups in Kenya and the apps FSD Kenya developed to support them. What are savings groups? The savings group is a simple financial intermediation model where members of a group contribute an agreed minimum amount of savings during regular meetings. Locally, savings or investment groups are known […]

The Decentralised Financial Services (DFS) project began in 2003 as an action research project to improve outreach of financial services in remote and rural areas. The first phase focused on developing and testing the tools to strengthen the management and governance of community-based financial organisations. The second phase which started in 2005, sought to demonstrate […]

Chamasoft is a simple to use web and mobile application which helps investment groups and chamas to manage all their group activities and communications. Chamasoft allows groups to automate and monitor their financial records. It performs the following functions: Membership Management. Bank Account Management Financial Management Loan Management Expense Management Project Management Reports One time […]

ChamaPesa gives savings clubs (chamas) the tools to issue and manage financial instruments which their members can access from their phones, with good governance at low cost. ChamaPesa enable financial inclusion for people at the base of the pyramid. It enables these Chamas to better manage their savings with good governance and transparency for the […]