
Project team
Leadership
The Small Firm Diaries is led by the Financial Access Initiative (FAI). FAI is a research center housed at NYU Wagner focused on how financial services can better meet the needs and improve the lives of poor households around the world. With partners, FAI produced the Portfolios of the Poor and the US Financial Diaries projects. These groundbreaking studies reshaped the financial inclusion field, illuminating volatility as a central issue for low-income households around the world.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
Jonathan Morduch
FAI, NYU Wagner (All Countries)
Timothy Ogden
FAI, NYU Wagner (All Countries)
Ryan Edwards
Australian National University (Fiji)
Amrik Heyer
FSD Kenya (Kenya)
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Julia Cajal
IHEID (Uganda)
Lore Vandewalle
IHEID (Uganda)
Chris Woodruff
Oxford University (Uganda)
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Research Implementation
Three organizations will manage the in-country implementation of Small Firm Diaries field research, bringing methods, experience, and findings from many previous diaries studies.
(L-IFT) specializes in financial diaries research to support evidence-based policymaking. They work with microfinance and other organizations to develop products and services based on financial diaries. L-IFT has conducted diaries research in over 10 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
(MFO) is a global non-profit committed to understanding the financial realities of low-income households. They work with financial service providers, policy makers, and mobile money operators to connect service offerings to the realities of the unbanked or underserved.
EDI Global, based in East Africa, has a global reputation for quality survey design and data collection services aimed at assessing international development program impacts, measuring results, and evaluating potential solutions to global poverty.
Engagement
& Learning
A network of local engagement partners will collaborate closely with researchers to deepen the team’s understanding of local context and ensure the research has local relevance.
LOCAL PARTNERS
Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics
Lagos Business School
FSD-Uganda
SMERU Indonesia
The University of the South Pacific
Others to be added
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