Organic Replication of Saving for Change
Voluntary replication was key to meeting our other lofty goal: scaling up. We set expectations for group formation so high that local staff had limited options: try to do everything, which was impossible, or enlist group members to train new groups.
If we were to expand Saving for Change to thousands of villages in Mali, we could not do it by hiring a huge staff. Lack of resources spurred creativity. If these women members did not take the lead, then Saving for Change would not meet its objectives. The IPA researchers found that in control villages, almost one-third the number of respondents had joined a group similar to Saving for Change through replication (i.e., without a technical agent forming the group) than in the villages selected to receive Saving for Change training.14 This is a testimony both to the simplicity and the usefulness of this methodology. In determining the costs of introducing Saving for Change into a region, this spontaneous spread of the methodology at no additional cost should be factored in.Facing page: Highlighted areas indicate the regions where savings groups were present as of 2010. Source: Oxfam America, 2010
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