SG2020: The Future of Savings Groups | Seep Network | 10 March 2020 | Southern Sun Elangeni & Maharani, 63 Snell Parade, North Beach, Durban, 4001, South Africa

The Global Savings Groups Conference Series is a biennial conference that engages a large and diverse community of stakeholders. The event develops and promotes improved standards of practice, mobilizes knowledge, strengthens partnerships and alliances, and creates opportunities for cross-organizational learning. Since 2011, The SEEP Network has been an active contributor to the Global Savings Groups Conference Series. Each event in this series has also served as a catalyst to increase the scale, sustainability, and impact of Savings Groups in the host country and region.

SG2020: The Future of Savings Groups will offer a platform for attendees to connect, engage and learn from each other about the challenges and opportunities they face in supporting Savings Groups worldwide. This highly interactive and demand-driven event will bring together practitioners, private sector actors, donors, and public sector representatives from around the world. Participants will converge to share lessons learned, evolving practice, and innovative ideas through peer learning sessions, plenaries, lunch dialogues, and a working group meeting.

2020 Speakers

Hugh Allen
EO of VSL Associates

Weselina Angelow
WSBI's Advisory Services

Julia Arnold
Financial Inclusion and Livelihoods Specialist at the International Center for Research on Women

Sukhwinder Arora
Leads the Savings at the Frontier Programme (SatF) at Oxford Policy Management

Schelda Jean Baptiste

Esther Bates
World Vision Australia's Financial Inclusion & Resilience Advisor

Marc Bavois
Senior Technical Advisor for Microfinance

Meg Bearor
Pact's Livelihoods & Economic Opportunities Advisor

Mabel Bejarano
Women Empowered (WE) Associate Technical Adviser for Latin America at PCI

Peter Brian
Economic Strengthening Advisor at Pact Tanzania

Ellen Chigwanda
Advocacy Advisor for Education with CARE USA

Gloria Chishimba
Member of Buchetekelo Youth Savings Group

Gerhard Coetzee
Leads the customer value team at CGAP

Joel Cox
Director of Operations for Seed Effect

Martina Crailsheim
VisionFund

Samson Dahwa
Project Manager, CARE International Zimbabwe

Abdillahi Farah Aden
Financial services and managing teams

Thomas de Hoop
Principal Economist at American Institutes for Research

Morgan Dembe
Project Management at the Mt Kenya University

Dagaba Diakite
Project Manager for the Education

Kate Doyle
Senior Program and Research Officer at Promundo

Alexandra Fiorillo
Principal of GRID Impact

Phiri Roy Fredrick
Programme Assistant- Gender and Youth at Financial Sector Deepening Zambia

Amadou Boudia Gueye
Managing Director of its Senegalese subsidiary

John Kamau
Data Analyst

Robert Gatimu Kiboti
Managing Director of Equity Bank Tanzania Limited

Grace Majara Kibombo
VSLA methodology

Angela Kohama
Inclusive Livelihood Policy Lead at Humanity & Inclusion

Anton Krone
Founder and Director, SaveAct

Sam Kalinda
Project Manager for two large scale adolescent empowerment projects

Hanna Laufer
Manager of the Savings at the Frontier (SatF)

Karen Lewin
Product Director for VisionFund International

Christian Loupéda
Senior Director for Financial Inclusion

Ismail Shaadin Mansour
Senior Project Officer for SILC

Andrew Magunda
Country Manager, L-IFT

Estefania McPhaul
Senior Manager of the USAID Rural Financial Initiative

Dennis Mello
Senior Program Manager for the Women Empowered

Innocent Mfinanga
Pact's Technology and Product Development Specialist

Ayishetu Mohammed
Onuado Savings Group

Whitney Moret
former Technical Director of the USAID

Abel Motsomi
Senior Information and Research Specialist with FinMark Trust

Melch Muhame Natukunda
CARE International

Sabasaba K. Moshingi
Head of Consumer Banking, Operational Risk and Sales Governance in Northern Gulf

Angeline Munzara
Technical Director for External Engagement & Savings Groups at World Vision

Gift Mwase
Program Coordinator for Economic Empowerment in World Relief Malawi

Lilian Nkengla
Gender and Natural Resource Management

Lise Paaskesen
BA in Development Studies and African Studies

Stephen Peachey
former central bank economist

Mark Reilley
Senior Director of Technology and Data Analytics at Pact

Dr. Richard Reynolds
Global Director for Products, VisionFund

Katherine Rickard
Senior Consultant in Financial Sector Development

Tom Shaw
STA for Microfinance at Catholic Relief Services

Steve Shema
Founder and CEO of Exuus Ltd

Garima Siwach
Economic Researcher at the American Institutes for Research

Anne Marie van Swinderen
Founder, L-IFT

Marcienne Umubyeyi
Program Manager, L-IFT

Julio J. Espinoza Villegas
Senior MEL advisor

Marco Wamara
Head of Operations

Sarah Ward
Senior Independent Consultant

Wes Wasson
CEO of DreamStart Labs

Philipos Woldegiorgis
Economic Strengthening Technical Director at FHI 360 Ethiopia

2020 Partners

DIAMOND PARTNER:
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Mastercard
• Itad
• FMT
• Save Act

BRONZE PARTNERS:
• Fsd Africa
• UK Aid

RECEPTION PARTNER:
• FinEquity