the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries are now
the Hrishipara/Gojo Diaries

tracking the financial lives of low-income households in central Bangladesh

CURRENT STATUS   DATA  MFI LOANS   LIFE DAY-BY-DAY   CORONA VIRUS    FINANCIAL DIARIES    ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT   PUBLICATIONS    LINKS

we have now collected more than 1.5 million unique transaction records
and completed more than nine years of continuous daily data collection

we collected the first day's data on 20th May 2015
we would like to thank our diarists, and all our outside supporters

Our pages:

Current Status: updates the total number of transactions tracked and provides other information
Data: a new page started in late  2024 that will help researchers get the best out of this website
MFI loans: explores the many aspects of MFI lending in detail
Life day-by-day a detailed account of how two diarists spend their time
Corona Virus: a blow-by-blow accout of how our Diarists fared during and after the epidemic
this page has a sub page on the  fall in the number of MFI loans taken by our diarists
Financial Diaries: briefly describes the origins and growth of the Diaries methodology
Origins of the Project: describes why and how we started the HDDP set of diaries
Publications: lists and links to our published reports and blogs
Links: lists some organisations with which we have links

The Hrishipara Daily Diaries project tracks the daily money transactions of 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh on a daily basis over many years. 

It started in May 2015 and is ongoing. Its objective is to understand in detail the economic and financial lives of low-income households. Its goal is to reveal insights that will enable policy makers and service providers (including financial service providers) to help low-income households improve their lives. 

In the past we have received funding help from CGAP and from the UNCDF's SHIFT programme and from L-IFT. More recently, the Tokyo-based company Gojo began to assist with funding and management. 

From July 1st 2024 the Project is co-owned, co-funded and co-managed by
Hrishipara Diaries and Gojo and Co

Recent news: forty-seven publications about the diaries have appeared so far, many of them blogs which can be found on sites like CGAP, MicroSave, Manchester University's Global Development Institute, UNU-WIDER, UNCDF and Gojo & Co. They can also be read on the publications page.  The latest include  a look at the cash reserves diarists hold at home, an examination of the income patterns of five low-income diarists; an article about an informal 'neighbourhood banker; a slide-show on 'Where does the money go?', and a blog in the CGAP series on 'Bangladesh after 50 years' (August 2021)