Digitization

[Webinar] Reaching Financial Equality - A Call to Action

View our webinar on Reaching Financial Equality for Women report, A 10-point action plan for governments and businesses to rebuild stronger after COVID-19 by prioritizing women’s digital financial inclusion.

[Webinar] Digital Wage Payments: How a Worker-Focused Approach Benefits both Factories and Workers

This webinar is the second in the Global Learning Exchange Series on Digital Payments, hosted by the International Labor Organization (ILO), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the IFC/ILO Better Work Programme, and the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance.

What powers her loom? A story of women’s digital financial inclusion from Manipur, India

This two-minute video from the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance is about Romita, a widow in the North East of India who opened a bank account to receive a government loan for a power loom.

[Webinar] COVID-19: Impact and Challenges of Digital Wage Payment in the Global Garment Industry

Millions of garment workers and their families are severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries where with social protection systems are underdeveloped.

[Webinar] Responsible Digital Payments during COVID-19: Insights from Jordan, Peru and Ghana

Government members of the Better Than Cash Alliance, Jordan, Peru and Ghana shared key insights on how they are delivering digital payments responsibly to the most vulnerable during a time of crisis. This webinar demonstrated how integrating the Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines in payment responses is possible at a time like this, and why it is an important building block for recovery.

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

The Better Than Cash Alliance hosted 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.

The promise of digital payments for women poultry farmers

In a six-month pilot, mStar Project used awareness tools, local youth, and behavior change agents to teach women farmers how to use and gain trustin digital payments. 500 women were trained and 353 opened digital accounts.

Digitising the agricultural last mile in Ghana: MTN Mobile Money’s mAgric

MTN has piloted a mobile-based solution, mAgric, that enables agribusinesses to digitize payments to farmers. Learn more in this GSMA video.

Bringing efficiency to Kenya’s dairy value chain: Virtual City’s Agrimanagr

Kenyan AgTech company, Virtual City, has created a mobile-based tool called Agrimanagr that enables digitization of dairy value chain. Watch the video to learn more.

RTS1 – Workshop on the pre-validation of the interim study report on digitizing payments in Senegal

Media coverage on RTS1 (Senegalese Radio Broadcasting Channel) on a workshop to pre-validate landscaping study held in Dakar, Senegal on 25th March 2019.

Numérisation des paiement: Atelier de prevalidation du rapport provisoire d'étude

Dakaractu, la chaine d'information en ligne!

Uruguay incrementa el uso de los pagos digitales gracias a incentivos fiscales

Responsible Digital Finance

New guidelines on Responsible Digital Financial Services will help fintech investors and digital finance innovators seize the opportunities, mitigate the risks, and ensure that digital financial services are responsible, sustainable, and profitable. Find out more in this short video interview.

Digitization in local development workshop in Senegal (French)

Raisina 2018 | Digital Money: Innovating with India for the World

Better Than Cash Alliance’s Peer Exchange Visit to India

Currency of Trust: Consumer Behaviors and Attitudes Toward Digital Financial Services in India

Voices from Ghana

When Aid Goes Digital

Watch: Making Digital Payments Safe for All