Assessment of savings and internal lending communities in Haiti.

In June of 2013 USAID/Haiti requested an assessment of SILC activities implemented under CHAMP to help inform follow-on programming. Because the study was commissioned after the project had ended it was designed as a qualitative retrospective examination of perceived needs and the impact of project participation from the perspectives of both the SILC group members themselves and project implementers. The present study was conducted under the USAID-funded HIVCore project led by the Population Council. Palladium (formerly Futures Group) a HIVCore partner conducted the study. The study asked three questions: 1. Did respondents feel that the SILC group activities met SILC group members’ needs? 2. Did respondents feel that participation in SILC groups had an impact on individual child and household well-being? 3. Did SILC groups continue after donor support ended and why or why not?