by Sharon | Feb 7, 2025 | News
Coverage by the Daily Maverick of a Tipping Points webinar late last year profiled the progress of SaveAct-promoted savings groups in Namaqualand in building resilience in a rapidly changing environment – and some of the achievements of our implementation partner...
by Mihle Mapoma | Nov 28, 2024 | News
SaveAct facilitates the formation of savings groups in 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. Between 2019 and 2022, SaveAct...
by Shelagh McLoughlin | Nov 1, 2024 | News
Ten years ago, in the small village of Khaoue in the Eastern Cape, SaveAct held its first vegetable production training session with small-scale farmers from the village. The purpose of the two-day event, in September 2014, was to teach the farmers, who were all in...
by Mihle Mapoma | Oct 1, 2024 | News
Taking place every two years, the Adaptation Network Colloquium is an opportunity to bring different kinds of people together! Penelope Price, coordinator of the event, said the colloquium provides a platform for academic members to present their research and for...
by Reporter | Sep 4, 2024 | News
SaveAct provided training to Biowatch facilitators to enable them to introduce SaveAct’s savings methodology to farmers they work with. Biowatch tried the methodology with one group, who then got remote support from SaveAct and their own facilitator during the Covid...
by Shelagh McLoughlin | Jul 29, 2024 | News
SaveAct’s financial education tools are being drawn upon in the development of material for a study involving 540 adolescents in three countries, South Africa, Nepal and Colombia. The project, called “Alive”, is developing and testing interventions for...
