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Ideas & Updates

Putting Digital Payments to Work in the Time of COVID-19

As the tragic human costs of COVID-19 mount, the need for practical, scalable, quick and effective solutions is urgent. Now more than ever, it’s time to put digital payments to work.
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Ideas & Updates

Webinar > Digital Payments in Ebola Response: Lessons for the COVID-19 Crisis

The Better Than Cash Alliance will host a webinar to highlight key lessons from Sierra Leone’s use of digital payments in their Ebola response, which shaped the outcome of the crisis in West Africa.

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Ideas & Updates

The International Labour Organization commits to expanding the use of responsible digital payments to advance decent work

New partnership will result in promoting digital payments as an important tool to increase security, financial inclusion and economic opportunities in the workplace. …
© © GSMA
Industry Report

The Digital Lives of Refugees

This report by GSMA and UNHCR looks at the ways in which refugees are using mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators.
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Industry Report

How do refugees use their mobile phones? 

New GSMA and UNHCR report looks at the ways in which refugees are using their mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators. It identifies affordability, literacy, digital skills, and charging as the main barriers to mobile phone ownership and mobile internet usage.
Industry Report

The age of digital interdependence

The UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation released this report. It highlights the need for inclusivity and protection of human rights to ensure a safe digital future for all and shares 5 key recommendations.  
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Industry Report

Mobile money enabled cash aid delivery: Essential considerations for humanitarian practitioners

This report offers guidance for humanitarian practitioners considering mobile money enabled cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes
© © Better Than Cash Alliance
Industry Report

Responding to conflict: Does “Cash Plus” work for preventing malnutrition?

New evidence from “Cash for Nutrition Program” in Yemen suggests that “soft conditionality” (encouraging to attend nutritional education) and effective targeting can play an important role i…
© © Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Industry Report

Partnering With the Private Sector to Extend Digital Financial Services to the Unbanked

This GIZ and Amarante Consulting study shares learnings and challenges with mobile wallet uptake among Syrian refugees, women and unbanked Jordanians.
© ©Better Than Cash Alliance/M.M. Zahidur Rahman
Ideas & Updates

Marks & Spencer Joins the Better Than Cash Alliance on International Women’s Day

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In the Media

Cash Digitization: UN Collaboration, Coordination, and Harmonization Opportunities

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Alliance Report

Cash Digitization: UN Collaboration, Coordination, and Harmonization Opportunities

New UN Better Than Cash Alliance’s Cash Digitization Study recommends strengthening cash assistance collaboration across UN agencies & partners, to improve coordination and harmonization.
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In the Media

Opinion: 3 unexpected solutions for greater climate action

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