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• Resources
  • State of the Sector
  • General Resources
    • Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference Publications
    • Emerging Guidelines in Youth-Inclusive Financial Services, December 2009
    • Emerging guidelines for linking youth to financial services
    • Savings and Chance: Inclusive Finance and the Haitian Lottery
    • Gateway Financial Innovations for Savings: Focus Note #1
    • Accelerating Financial Capability among Youth: Nudging New Thinking
    • "Use of Time and Mobility" Focus Group Tool
    • Is There a Business Case for Small Savers?
    • Youth Savings in Developing Countries: Trends in Practice, Gaps in Knowledge
    • Youth Savings Accounts: A Financial Service Perspective
    • Youth and Access to Microfinance in Indonesia: Outreach and Options
    • Child Savings Accounts: A Primer
    • Child Savings Accounts: Global Trends in Design and Practice
    • Entry Finance: Building the Livelihood Assets and Capabilities of Youth
    • Getting to “What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know” (Vol. 1)
    • Getting to “What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know” (Vol. 2)
    • WSBI Member Banks' Experiences in the Field of Financial Education: Examples and Policy Views
    • Listening to Youth: Market Research to Design Financial and Non-financial Services for Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Down to Business: Ryada Microfinance's Experience of Introducing Financial Services for Youth
    • Participatory Rapid Appraisal for Microfinance – A Toolkit
    • Serving Youth With Microfinance: Perspectives of Microfinance Institutions and Youth Serving Organizations
    • Financial Education for Adolescent Girls
    • Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children: Principles of Program Design and Technical Recommendations for Effective Field Interventions
    • Assessing the Outcomes of Financial Education
    • UNCDF Market Research Evaluation Tool
    • Financial Product Adaptation Tool
    • Financial Product Development Tool
    • MEDA Youth and Financial Services
    • Growing Potential: Microfinance-Plus Approaches for Cultivating the New Generation of Young Clients
    • Street Business Mini Toolkit: The Importance of Budgeting
  • Case Studies from the Field
    • YFS Case Study No.1: The Role of Hatton National Bank in Creating Access to Financial Services for Youth in Sri Lanka
    • YFS Case Study No.2: A Case Study on Financial Services for Street Children
    • YFS Case Study No.3: Safe and Smart Savings Products for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in Kenya & Uganda
    • YFS Case Study No.4: A Partnership to Offer Education Loans to Nursing Students in Uganda
    • YFS Case Study No.5: Youth Financial Services: The Case of BRAC & the Adolescent Girls of Bangladesh
    • YFS Case Study No.6: Youth-Inclusive Financial Services: Marketing and Delivery is What Matters
    • YFS Case Study No.7: Microfinance and the “Next Generation” The FINCA Aflatoun Curriculum Implemented in an MFI Setting
    • YFS Case Study No.8: MEDA Works with Youth: YouthInvest
    • YFS Case Study No.9: Using Innovative Partnerships and Market Research to Link Financial Education and Savings Products for Girls
    • YFS Case Study No.10: Save the Children Youth Financial Services: Adolescent Girls Project
    • YFS Case Study No.11: Youth-Inclusive Financial Services: A Case Study from Bosnia
    • YFS Case Study No.12: Making Financial Services and Business Skills Development Available to African Children and Youth: Accomplishments and Limitations of Research and Monitoring
    • YFS Case Study No.13: Exploring Youth Financial Services: The Case of Pro Mujer in Bolivia
    • YFS Case Study No.14: Product Development for Girls: Girls’ Savings and Financial Education
    • YFS Case Study No.16: First Middle Eastern Microfinance Bank Puts Youth First
    • YFS Case Study: Financial Services Offered to Youth
    • YFS Case Study: Youth Loan Program
    • Linking Youth with Knowledge & Opportunities in Microfinance (LYKOM) Project, Morocco: A Youth Livelihoods Program Case Study
    • Providing Social Support Savings & Microcredit Opportunities to Adolescent girls at Risk for HIV/AIDS in Kenya
    • Blazing a Trail, Addressing Obstacles: Lessons from Save the Children and Foundation Zakoura’s Youth Microfinance and Training Program
    • Savings Demand Market Research Study West Bank and Gaza
    • Youth entrepreneurship: The YBI Network approach
    • Equity Bank: Stanford Case Study
    • YouthInvest: A case study of savings behaviour as an indicator of change through experiential learning
  • Presentations
    • Empowering Rwandan Youth through Savings-led Microfinance
    • Youth Finance
    • Aflatoun Partners with FINCA Peru: MFIs & the “Next Generation”
    • Partnerships for Better Health-Financial and Otherwise!
    • BRAC and Youth Financial Services
    • Market Research for Youth Financial Services
    • Financial Services for the Targeted Youth/Street Children
    • Partner Microcredit Foundation, Founded by Mercy Corps
    • Making Financial Services and Business Skills Development Available to African Children and Youth: Accomplishments and Limitations of Research and Monitoring
    • Safe and Smart Savings Products for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in Kenya and Uganda
    • Creating Access to Financial Services for the Youth in Sri Lanka
    • Microfinance Opportunities
    • MEDA’s Youth Financial Services
    • Pro Mujer
    • Understanding Youth Needs
    • Developing Savings Products and Financial Education Programs for Girls. Highlights from the Product Development Process
    • Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children who Work
    • A Little Means A Lot: Increasing Institutional Capacity at the Margins in Youth-Inclusive Financial Services
    • Youth Financial Services and Entrepreneurship Programming for Girls
    • Youth Financial Services: Fundación Paraguaya Loan Program
    • Making Financial Services and Business Skills Development Available to African Children and Youth: A Pilot
    • Savings Products for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in Kenya & Uganda
    • Theoretical and Practical Models for Expanding Financial Capability
    • Aflatoun Child Savings Models
    • CARE Ishaka: Courage for the Future
    • Plan: Youth Economic Empowerment Project in West Africa
    • Vittana: Building a world where anyone can go to college
    • Going to Task: Using Market Research Results to Design Products for Young Clients
    • Helping Zimbabwean Youth Overcome Poverty through Savings and Internal Lending Communities
    • Promoting Savings Products To Girls
    • Plenary Panel: How Do We Take Youth-Inclusive Financial Services to Scale?
    • Equity Bank Youth Program
    • UN Capital Development Fund: YouthStart Programme
    • Youth Savings and Development: Women's World Banking
    • YouthSave: Summary of Findings from Market Research
    • A Nation-Wide Approach to Integrated Youth Financial Services: The Case of ESAF in Palestine
    • Making Cents International Financial Literacy Companion Curriculum
    • FHI 360 Youth Financial Services in Gaza: Lessons Learned from Savings, Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Interventions
    • Palestine Monetary Authority: Youth Financial Inclusion through Consumer Protection and Awareness
    • Youth-Inclusive Financial Services Linkage Program (YFS-Link)
    • Ryada Financial Services: Lessons Learned Designing and Providing Youth Financial Services
    • Impact Assessment: Savings and Financial Education for Girls in Mongolia
    • UN Capital Development Fund: YouthStart Market Research Approach
    • Women's World Bank Market Research & Youth Savings: Spotlight on Ethiopia
    • YouthSave: Summary of Findings from Market Research
    • Youth Savings and the Policy and Regulatory Environment: Case Studies from Four YouthSave Countries
    • Building a Youth-Friendly Policy and Regulatory Environment
    • Child and Youth Finance International: Promoting Child-Friendly Banking Regulation – The Current State of the Field
    • Youth Saving and Financial Inclusion: The Case of Nepal
    • Advancing Integrated Microfinance for Youth: Freedom from Hunger
    • Understanding the Needs of Financial Services for Youth
    • Scaling Up Youth Financial Services: Emerging Lessons Learned from the Innovations in Youth Financial Services Practitioners Learning Program
    • Fostering Savings Behavior in Youth: Financial Education Training and Access to Savings Accounts in Morocco
    • Safe and Smart Savings Products for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in Kenya and Uganda: Results from the Uganda Pilot Evaluation
    • Five Reasons MFIs Don't Lend to Students & 1,600 Reasons Why They Should
  • YFS-Link Newsletters
    • YFS-Link Newsletter: Quarterly Updates on the Youth-Inclusive Financial Services Sector. Winter 2009, Vol. 1, Issue 1
    • YFS-Link Newsletter: Quarterly Updates on the Youth-Inclusive Financial Services Sector. Spring 2010, Vol. 2, Issue 1
  • YFS Videos
    • Mohamed S. Al-Lai, Al Amal Microfinance Bank, Yemen
    • Kimanthi Mutua, K-Rep Group, Kenya
    • Ali Faroun, Palestinian Monetary Authority
    • Beth Porter, United Nations Capital Development Fund
    • Corrinne Ngurukie, YouthSave, USA
    • Nick Cain, Vittana, USA
    • Ben Shell, Women’s World Banking, Mongolia
    • David Mukaru, Equity Bank, Kenya
    • Chandula Abeywickrema, Hatton Bank, Sri Lanka
    • Claudia Pompa, Fundación Paraguaya, Paraguay
    • David James-Wilson, Hillside Family of Agencies, USA
    • Famari Barro, Plan USA, Niger
    • Farzana Kashfi, BRAC, Bangladesh
    • John Guerra, DUTO, Colombia
    • Karen Austrian, Population Council, Kenya
    • Lara Storm-Swire, Pro Mujer, Bolivia
    • Shahana Nazneen, Save the Children, Bangladesh
    • Kate Waiganjo, K-Rep Bank, Kenya
• Engage
  • YFS-Link Map
  • Sign Up to be a YFS-Link Member!
  • YFS-Link Discussion Forum
  • Calendar
    • Youth-Inclusive Financial Services Training and Training of Trainers: Accra, Ghana
    • Serious Business: Making a Case for Youth-Inclusive Financial Services
    • Foromic: Servicios financieros inclusivos para jóvenes
    • Global Microcredit Summit: Making the Case for Youth-Inclusive Financial Services
    • 5th African Micro Finance Conference: Emerging Guidelines in Youth-Inclusive Financial Services
    • After Hours Seminar: Financial Inclusion for Youth: Reaching the Next Generation
    • Youth-Inclusive Financial Services at the SMDP Ghana
• YFS-Link Map
  • Social Enterprise (Non-Profit)
  • PANABO MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE
  • Al Amana
  • Population Council
  • K-Rep Bank Ltd
  • Equity Bank Uganda Limited
  • Pro Mujer
  • Padakhep Manabik Unnayan Kendra
  • BRAC
  • Hatton Nantoinal Bank, Sri Lanka
  • Fundacion Paraguaya
  • Freedom from Hunger
  • Partner Microcredit Foundation
  • MIC-CREDITNOW GHANA
  • Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Santa Ana Ltda.
  • Sinapi Aba Trust -Ghana
  • Business Start-Up Center Bitola (Business Incubator)
  • Plan International
  • FUNED VisionFund OPDF
  • CARE International au Burundi
  • Crédito con Educación- CRECER
  • Alexandria Business Association
  • Common Actions against Poverty
  • Sanabel-The Microfinance Network of Arab Countries
  • FAULU KENYA LTD
  • Educated Consumer Project
  • Community Initiatives and Social Support Organization (CISSO)
  • Conseils et Appui pour l'Education à la Base (CAEB)
  • Together Alive Youth Link (TAYL)
  • Foundation UpToYouToo
  • House of Diamond Initiative/Small and Medium Enterprises Dev. Agency of Nigeria
  • Live Green Youth Foundation
  • CHF International
  • Instituto Companheiros das Américas
  • Rural People's Sangam
  • Post Bank Uganda LTD
  • Nari Maitree
  • Al Majmoua - The Lebanese Organization for Development
  • Dakahlya Businessmen's Association for Community Development (DBACD)
  • CHF - Ryada
  • Caja Depac Poblana, SC RL
  • Kompanion Financial Group
  • KixiCredito
  • SafeSave
  • Pact Congo
  • Aggar Micro Finance S.C.
  • Reach Global
  • Azerbaijan microfinance Association
  • Aflatoun
  • Catholic Relief Services
  • Young Americas Business Trust - Guyana
  • DFLI~The Money School
  • Nova Committee,Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce
  • PATHWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES
  • Learning in a Village Project
  • Rehema Community Based Organization
  • Street Kids International
  • Association for the Development of Rural Communities (ASDIR)
  • Plan International Indonesia
  • Cooperativa de Ahorro y Credito FINANCIERA
  • New Global Citizens
  • Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito "Fondo para el Desarrollo y la Vida" FONDVida
  • ja worldwide
  • Aseatic Himalayan Holidays Tours and Travel Pvt.Ltd.
  • Global Youth & Student Organisation
  • Local government
  • IATA QUALIFICATION HOLDERS ASSOCIATION,GHANA
  • Ujima Foundation
  • Plan Finland
  • Urivi Vikram Charitable Trust
  • CADIF KENYA
  • Atiwa Students' Association
  • Fundación Amigos de los Niños Barranquilla - Children International, Agencia Barranquilla
  • Plan Niger
  • WANG LASBELA
  • Peace Corps
  • Plan Senegal
  • Fédération des Caisses Populaires
  • Youth Crime Watch of Nigeria,Ebonyi State Chapter
  • University of Minnesota Extension
  • World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU)
  • Plan Sierra Leone
  • Youth Empowerment and Child Labour Elimination Project (YCEP)
  • Community Action Development Initiative (CADIN)
  • AMSSF/MC
  • Entrepreneurship Developemment Centre
  • STMF Sri Lanka
  • Dor Shalom Cameroon
  • IDEJEN
  • Operation Blessing El Salvador
  • Privada
  • Women And Youth Strengths (WAYS)
  • National Youth Action (NAYA), Inc.
  • tester
  • Silatech
  • BRAC Uganda
  • A Self-Help Assistance Program
  • Vision Consulting Africa
  • New America Foundation
  • Save the Children with Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
  • Save the Children, Bolivia
  • Save the Children, Egypt
  • Save the Children, Malawi
  • Save the Children, Morocco
  • Save the Children, Uganda
  • Save the Children, West Bank and Gaza
  • MEDA YouthInvest, Egypt
  • MEDA YouthInvest, Morocco
  • Equity Bank Ltd. Kenya
  • MICRO Development Training and Consultancy Services (MDTCS)
  • Malawi Rural Development Fund (MARDEF)
  • Population Council
  • Small Enterprise and Development Agency (SEDA)
  • MicroSave Consulting Ltd
  • Youth Challenge International
  • QED Development Consulting
  • BRAC Bangladesh
  • BRAC Tanzania
  • Youth Business International (YBI)
  • Al Amal Microfinance Bank
• About Us
  • Helping Organizations Link Youth to Financial Services
  • Mission of YFS-Link
  • Capacity Building: Training and Technical Assistance
  • YFS-Link Advisory Committee
  • About Making Cents International
• Featured Member: Al Amal Microfinance Bank
• Featured YFS Tool: "Attractive Media" Focus Group Tool
• Featured Resource: Listening to Youth: Market Research to Design Financial and Non-financial Services for Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa
• News from the Field: Palestinian Monetary Authority
• Featured Resource: Growing Potential: Microfinance-Plus Approaches for Cultivating the New Generation of Young Clients
• Featured YFS Tool: The Importance of Budgeting