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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.  

For more than five years L-IFT has been active on financial diaries studies. In the process of this research we came to understand that potentially the data from financial diaries can serve many organisations – almost all organisations can benefit. … Continued

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 … Continued

The Financial literacy training in Kiryandongo started on the 10th 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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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.   

“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 … Continued