SCORE Savings groups

 
 
 

Inclusion of vulnerable households in savings groups

 



  3. This page provides additional information on the design and instruments used for the impact evaluation of project SCORE. Project SCORE introduces marginalized, ultra-poor households in rural Uganda to savings groups.


  5. The first working paper from the evaluation is


  7. Burlando, A. & Canidio, A. (2015). Can savings groups bring financial inclusion to ultra-poor households? Experimental evidence from Uganda.



  10. Questionnaires

  11. Links to pdf files of research instruments related to the paper are found below. Baseline data collection was carried out using paper questionnaires.  Endline data collection used SurveyToGo’s CAPI software, operated using Galaxy 3G tablets. 
























Audit records

Links to the research instrument used by field officers for quarterly financial audits

File

VAT form




Roster Form



Expanded VAT




Community




Endline   

Description

Measures vulnerability for SCORE enrollees; baseline characteristics for the study’s preselected population


Records group participants during first meetings and assigns member IDs


Measures vulnerability for members of study savings group who are not SCORE enrollees


Collected information on access to formal and informal financial institutions at the village/parish level. Collected with CAPI


Final questionnaire for preselected participants; collected with CAPI

Type of Survey

Screening questionnaire for SCORE participants



Savings group rosters



Supplemental vulnerability questionnaire


Community questionnaire



Endline questionnaire   

File

FOVA

Description

Records of group financial records at the time of audit; individual members’ financial records

Type of Survey

Audit records