Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children into Families (ESFAM) - Matched Savings Accounts - A Learning Brief

  • Date Posted: June 12, 2019
  • Authors: CGillum
  • Document Types: Primer or Brief
  • Donor Type: U.S. Agency for International Development

This Learning Brief draws on information collected via focus group discussions, individual interviews, and project data to describe ESFAM’s experience with and learning from its matched savings account intervention, which aimed to encourage families to save for educational expenses, so that they would not have to send their children to residential care institutions for school.