In this second L-IFT podcast, Anne Marie van Swinderen, L-IFT’s managing director, and Andrew Magunda, L-IFT’s country manager in Uganda, address career building.
L-IFT_FINBIT
For more than five years L-IFT has been active in financial diaries studies. In the process of this research, we came to understand that potentially the data from financial diaries can serve many organizations – almost all organizations can benefit. Through diaries, they can understand how their clients think and act and what type of […]
Rachael Dusio: Field Experience in RISE Diary Research
My name is Rachael Dusio. I am from South Sudan. I have a BA from Makerere University, Uganda in English Literature. I have been teaching in many schools from 2004 up to 2014 in Uganda, Sudan, and South Sudan. I have now lived for 7 years in Kiryandongo. Starting From 2015 to date, I have […]
Financial Literacy Training in Kiryandongo During COVID-19
The Financial literacy training in Kiryandongo started on the 10th of August 2020 conducted in different sessions; consisting of about 15 participants in each of the sessions. The first session and the days of the training were scheduled by the participants and they were able to learn about the current and desired financial behaviors and also […]
Youth Saving and Spending During COVID-19: Tracking Young People’s Financial Activity in Nigeria
Last year I was part of a team that conducted a Financial Diaries study of young people in Morocco, Nigeria, and Senegal as part of comprehensive research on “Young People in Africa” that was conducted on behalf of the Scale2Save Programme— a partnership between the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute and the Mastercard Foundation. The team has produced […]
Covid-19 and the Hrishipara Diarists – July 2020: A Big Rebound – But Only for Some
The story so far These blogs offer a running commentary on how 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our daily financial diary project have coped with the pandemic. The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona lockdown was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. The second showed how bad things got during […]
Hategekimana Innocent: My Experience Working With L-IFT on the ‘Finbit Application Experiment’
My name is Hategekimana Innocent. I am 25 years old. I am from Congo. 13 years ago I came to the Nakivale Refugee Settlement with my family and I live with my parents, two sisters, and one brother. My education level is Senior 6. From June 2017-2019, I worked as an office assistant with Humanitarian […]
L-IFT’s Refugee Finance Project
L-IFT is very pleased to work for Opportunity International and PHB on a financial diaries project designed to better understand the financial lives of refugees living in Uganda. Opportunity International aims to improve financial inclusion and relies on L-IFT’s human-centered financial diaries methodology in order to design tools better adapted to refugees’ needs. During the […]
Podcast: Episode 1- Gender
Welcome to our first L-IFT podcast! In it, Anne Marie van Swinderen, L-IFT’s managing director, and Andrew Magunda, L-IFT’s country manager in Uganda, talk about gender within L-IFT and L-IFT’s methodology as well as in our research results.
Opening Windows, Creating Opportunities!
“When one window is opened to you, jump into the house and extend the opportunity by opening 10.” That’s what Mibaraka (standing in the picture) wrote. He then went on: “The experience with L-IFT pushed me to mobilize people for a saving group that we named CLISO (Change our life by increasing savings and assisting orphans). This […]