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“ Saving for Change” Project
RACHA-Myanmar
CFF
Time frame : 2016 -2017
Start-Up
Conduct meeting
Discuss about SfC
Give some example from SfC stories
Interaction section
Plan for next meeting
Start-UpBackground-
SfC was developed by Oxfam- America in 2005
Established in 1995 as a confederation of 15 organizations
working to reduce poverty
Implement at Cambodia since 2011
by Freedom from Hunger, the Stromme Foundation
Grown to serve approximately 85,000 women in Cambodia as of March
2014
Now, approximately 680,000 members in 13 countries
worldwide with 15- 25 members in one group
RACHA implement in Myanmar from 2016
Start-UpAims & Purpose -
Facilitating for Providing knowledge and skills to the target
areas to develop and form SfC group:
Develop micro-credit or finance
to serve/ save the rural poor from hunger, emergency situations, &
lack of access to health care
Availability of small loan within the group to be able to start small
business or entrepreneur to benefit individual, families, group &
society
Sub-Goal:
Promoting reproductive, child and maternal health care
Start-Up
Principle of SfC-
No grant or matching fund to the group
Group is autonomous & self –regulated
Members are self selected based on trust
Seven weekly training sessions
Weekly saving
Flexible cash deposites with 5 times of minimum saving amount
Rolling saving cycle
12 months
Current Savings lose 20% per year
HomeAnimalsJewelry
TontinesRemittances
Money LendersSuppliers
MFIs
Current Lending Costs
More savings
20%-40%
More Income
Income Generating Activities
Social Capital
Self-Managed GroupsSavings and Lending
BusinessesIncreased Food Consumption
Access to Health CareSolidarity and Networks
Empowerment
Start-Up
Who is Benefit?
Self-Group with self-managed funds
Individuals get benefits from the group
Safe Save Money with interests
Easily lend money in emergency situation & for self micro-
business with low interest rate
Equal benefit within the group member
No external pressure to the group
Togetherness to common problems and goal
Develop Self-Help Group
Theory of Change
power
Group Assets $
Change
Household
Village
Ways to Save Money ( Individual)Save a certain percentage of your income
Save a set method of cash
Save the changes from your pocket
Participate in the Saving Group
( Note: It is not difficult to save some amount of your
money from your daily expense and join SfC)
Implementation MethodologyPromotion Meeting
Go to the target villages:
Study and collect about village profile
Do home-visit & counselling
Talk with the local people & introduce them about SfC
Meet with headman or authoritarian persons
Inform & organize the local people to join the meeting
Encourage local people to form the group telling the advantages
of SfC
Implementation Methodology
Group Formation
Discussed advantages of SfC group
Registration of SfC group members
Phases of group development & animator visits
Meeting schedule
Implementation Methodology
Steps of Group Forming-
Prepare the group
Management Committee Election
Setting up saving goals
Setting up group’s goals and saving
Book keeping record
Fund using and loan policy
Options for Fund Distribution
Implementation MethodologyPlanning & Group Performance Assessment ( CFF will do)
AnnexesMember Name List form
Attendance list, Saving & Fine Record form
Loan Record form
Cash Balance Sheet Form
Individual and Group Saving Record Form
Formula for Group’s Saving Shared Out Form
Training Records
Visitor Registration Form
Regulation – Group’s Rules
Committee’s Role & Responsibilities
SfC’s Meeting Procedure
CFF Guide Special Notes
Organizing People to ParticipateApplying active/ structure observation skills
( Observe the village, schools, road, gardens, living
conditions, houses, church/pagoda, shops etc)
Do home-visit ( May be home, small shop, tea shop,
farms, community hall, etc)
Interact with people & build rapport with them, ask
them about the village & living situation
Apply non- discriminate action oriented approach
Start with they want to talk and lead them to your
aims
Roles of Meeting FacilitatorOrganize meeting with people concern
Know your topic, objectives, meeting minutes, No ofparticipants
Lead the meeting ( No right to do decision for thepeople)
Give equal chance to the participants ( Non-judgemental attitude)
Encourage the participants who are silent to speak out
Educate & supervise them
Give attention when participant share his/her opinion
Let the people decide what they want ( Self-determination)
Facilitating MeetingFind proper place for meeting whereby meeting can
freely implement without bothering from external
Let people know the venue of the meeting
Reach ahead before the meeting start
Make sure you have all needed materials for meeting
Show respect, welcomed & appreciate to the meetingcomers
Make them feel comfortable
Start the meeting on time & end on time
Avoid to make decision for them ( Let them dothemselves)
Help them to set future plan & meeting
Keys of Forming the Group
Motivate them to form the group
Know & observe who and who are in good
relationship
Make the people aware the importance of selecting
members
Divide them into small group & let them discuss
Make them to do short presentation
Guide them to form the group
Let them select the group members by their own
Help them to chose leaders & set-bylaws
Help them to do future plan & Meeting
Evaluation & Follow-up
Ask for their feedback/suggestion regard with the
conducted meeting
Give them small paper to write down their feedback
& suggestion ideas
Visit them and phone them ( Communication)
Interact with external people from the village and ask
about the formed group situation if he/she knows
them
Check their funds & how they manage
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