Mozambique, Tanzania

Financial Diaries of Smallholder Families in Tanzania

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There are an estimated 450 milllion smallholder farming households in the world, representing more than 2 billion people. To get a better understanding of how these families manage their finances, CGAP is conducting financial diaries research with 90 families in Tanzania, Mozambique, and Pakistan. In The interviews capture information about cash flows in minute detail. “But it’s not just about the cash flows,” says Kristy Bohling, of Bankable Frontier Associates. “It’s about life.” Michael Tarazi, of CGAP, explains that “These are still very early days in the collection of the diaires information in Tanzania. But what’s clear already is that if we’re serious about financial inclusion, then we have to be serious about financial inclusion for smallholder families.”

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CGAP – Financial Diaries of Smallholder Families

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Author: Ippei TsurugaIppei Tsuruga is Social Protection Programme Manager for Indonesia at International Labour Organization. He has been managing programmes and providing technical contributions to social security reforms at the country level in Indonesia, Viet Nam and Myanmar, and also contributing to research and knowledge management at the ASEAN regional and global levels. He has been involved in various policy discussions and research activities on unemployment benefit, old-age, invalidity and survivors’ benefits, maternity benefit, sickness benefit, and the extension of social protection to workers in the informal economy. He has worked at the ILO Country Office for Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Social Protection Department; and JICA Washington D.C. Office, Research Department, Country Office for Kenya, and Africa Department for Kenya, Nigeria and Somalia.

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