Village Savings and Loans Associations are community-based savings groups that promote saving and borrowing in communities where access to formal financial services is limited.
This brief outlines good practices for setting up VSLAs and provides practical measures to encourage women’s participation in these groups. Although this brief is based on ICI’s experience establishing VSLA groups in cocoa-growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the good practices presented could apply to other contexts.
