​Gina Chowa

​Gina Chowa

CSD Faculty Director; University of North Carolina
Global Asset Building: Innovations in Policies and Services

Gina Chowa is a CSD Faculty Director and Director of Global Social Development Innovations from the University of North Carolina. Her research with CSD focuses on global asset building innovations in policies and services, particularly in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia.

Faculty Profile


CSD Projects

AssetsAfrica

AssetsAfrica

Global Asset Building

Our pilot program tests asset-building innovations for impoverished households and communities in Uganda. 

Global Assets Project

Global Assets Project

Global Asset Building

Our collaboration with the New America Foundation’s Asset Building Program seeks to inform and promote development of asset-building policies and programs worldwide. 

YouthSave

YouthSave

Global Asset Building

This initiative in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal was to understand conditions for delivery of savings products and services to improve the lives of low-income youth.