The Sustainable Microfinance and Development Programme includes two one-week workshops entirely devoted to Savings Groups. The SMDP Ghana will take place September 4-15, 2017 in Accra and is offered by the University of New Hampshire, hosted by Microfin Consult in Ghana and delivered by VSL Associates (www.vsla.net).

The SMDP Savings Group (SG) courses are designed for institutions and individuals who are committed to experimenting with the methodology but with the intention to create efficient and effective SG programmes, operating at low-cost and significant scale, leading to a long-term output in which groups spontaneously replicate at high quality and can do so in both Islamic and non-Islamic contexts.