Saving During Pregnancy in Zambia

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I Inactive

Key Information

In many low-income settings, pregnant women continue to face financial barriers to accessing safe delivery services, largely due to high costs associated with transportation to a health facility and the materials needed for a safe delivery. Likely barriers to saving during pregnancy include resource constraints associated with poverty, as we all behavioral bottlenecks including uncertainty regarding total savings needed and the tendency to be “present-biased”, i.e., to weight current financial demands higher than future ones. To address these barriers, researchers have partnered with World Vision to develop an innovative set of home-based and village savings group interventions designed to empower and support pregnant women to save.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia

Activity URL

https://www.poverty-action.org/study/saving-during-pregnancy-zambia

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2017 - 2018

Partner(s)

Financial Sector Deepening (FSD)

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Boston University; Financial Sector Deepening (FSD)

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Other skills
  • Financial literacy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Other
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Mothers

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Not applicable or unknown

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Health and childcare services
  • Maternal and child health services
Reducing economic barriers
  • Financial literacy training
Women's empowerment programs
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)