Podcasts
Podcast: In The Tank: Player One Has Escaped Poverty
Marking the release of Half the Sky: The Game, New America's Jamie Zimmerman and Greta Byrum discuss the potential for social cause gaming and mobile games to raise awareness and spur behavior change toward girls' and women's social and economic empowerment.
Podcast: The Young and the Entrepreneurial
Vodcast: On-the-Ground Perspectives from Kenya Post Office Savings Bank
By Eric Tyler, New America Foundation
In a new vodcast, representatives from Kenya Post Office Savings Bank(KPOSB) share their experiences and insights from the recent launchof their YouthSave product. Lucas Muraguri, a marking officer with KPOSB, first discusses how insights gained from market research and piloting helped inform the product launch. He stresses that a key objective of the bank is to inculcate a long-term savings behavior among the new youth clients. “The youth will not only have savings in terms of money in the account, but their behavior, the way they carry out their lives, and the way they do things will have have been changed.”
Podcast: Rani Deshpande and Ruth Dueck-Mbeba share their Insights on Youth and Their Money
By Nicole Tosh, New America Foundation
At the recent YouthSave event, Youth and Their Money, Rani Deshpande, Director of YouthSave at Save the Children, and Ruth Dueck-Mbeba, Program Manager at MasterCard Foundation sat down with New America Program Associate, Vishnu Sridharan, to discuss the business case for youth savings, the priorities of the MasterCard Foundation in microsavings and youth savings, and how youth manage their money.
New Podcast: The ‘Youth Voice’ in Youth Savings
By Payal Pathak, New America Foundation
Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, 50% of which is comprised of youth. In 2011 YouthSave’s financial institution partner, Kenya Post Office Savings began piloting its YouthSave account, SMATA, across a number of its branches, including one in Kenyatta Market just outside of Kibera. In this podcast, we highlight the youth voice, hearing directly from four exceptional young people living in Kibera, on their savings goals, challenges, and plans for the future. The interviews of youth clients in this podcast provide a snapshot of what saving and having a savings account means to many.
New Podcast: Is there a Business Case for Youth Savings Accounts? - Perspectives from YouthSave Financial Partners
By Payal Pathak, New America Foundation
In this podcast, Payal Pathak, policy analyst for the Global Assets Project at the New America Foundation, highlights key takeaways from YouthSave’s Financial Institution Learning Exchange in Nairobi, Kenya. During the event, members of the YouthSave Project including Consortium representatives, financial institutions and researchers gathered to discuss and debate several questions emerging from the youth savings field; for example, can youth savings accounts be commercially sustainable? This is the first podcast in a series featuring interviews of our financial partners who discuss how their respective banks define the business case for the YouthSave Product.
New Podcast: Barriers to Financial Capability and Education for Youth
By Payal Pathak, New America Foundation
Financial capability is a term increasingly used by many development practitioners, policy makers, and researchers concerned with youth development and their future financial wellbeing. However, there are varying perspectives on how to define, design, and deliver effective financial capability interventions across the youth-inclusive financial services field. This podcast features key insights that our expert advisory board members shared during YouthSave's first multi-stakeholder meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, when asked about the barriers to financial capability and financial education for low-income youth.
New Vodcast: Youth Savings - Challenges and Opportunities in Product Development and Delivery
By Payal Pathak, New America Foundation
On February 14th, the YouthSave Project hosted its first multi-stakeholder meeting in Bogota, Colombia to discuss project progress and engage our stakeholders on topics that can improve YouthSave’s efforts in developing, delivering and testing youth savings products targeted at low-income youth. This vodcast features key insights that our expert advisory board members shared when asked about the challenges and opportunities in savings product development and delivery for youth, a topic that was discussed at length during the event.
