The Better Than Cash Alliance is a partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Government of Indonesia, with the Indonesian cocoa sector and the Better Than Cash Alliance has conducted a first-of-its-kind sizing exercise to assess opportunities for digital financial inclusion for smallholder cocoa farmers.
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Discussed how responsible digital wage payments can contribute to workers’ empowerment, financial inclusion, and sustainable enterprises, creating benefits for workers and employers.
Launch of the Pan-African Peer Exchange Series : Digitizing Government Payments Amid Covid-19 organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Better Than Cash Alliance.
CSS is thus strongly committed to providing high-quality services to its workers and their families, both formal and informal financial services.
In 2020 Kossam SDE successfully launched payment digitization for more than 850 herders, helping to improve their living and working conditions.
As part of its growth and anti-poverty policy, the Government of Senegal is carrying out several transport infrastructure projects.
On average government revenues on the continent account for 21.4% of fiscal policy spending but could digitisation of tax systems help widen this base?
Mobile money accounts have spread widely in select regions of the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This Research Brief focuses on the individual and household impacts of mobile money.
This paper suggests pathways forward to help realize these benefits, with specific recommendations.
MTN has piloted a mobile-based solution, mAgric, that enables agribusinesses to digitize payments to farmers. Learn more in this GSMA video.
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.
Media coverage on RTS1 (Senegalese Radio Broadcasting Channel) on a workshop to pre-validate landscaping study held in Dakar, Senegal on 25th March 2019.
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New digitization study recommends strengthening cash assistance collaboration across UN agencies & partners, to improve coordination and harmonization.
McLeod Russel Uganda (MRUL) cut costs and increased financial inclusion for workers after transitioning to a secure mobile payment system in Uganda.
Unilever partnered with Mastercard and Kenya Commercial Bank to develop a digital working capital platform helping small merchants grow sale in Kenya, called Jaza Duka.