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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Digital financial inclusion offers real hope to help us get back to achieving the SDGs by 2030
Improving access to healthcare and decent work, reaching farmers, including merchants, equal opportunities for women and much more, through responsibly digitizing payments.
Alliance’s work in action
Improving social protection through public-private collaboration and responsible digital payment practices as part of COVID-19 emergency response
Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica are demonstrating that digital payments are an essential part of the economic recovery
This webinar demonstrated how integrating the Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines in payment responses is possible and why it’s an important building block for recovery.
El Gobierno de Uruguay albergó a otros países miembro de la Alianza Better Than Cash para compartir sus experiencias en cómo fomentar el uso de los pagos digitales a través de incentivos fiscales.
Grupo Bimbo identified digitization as a key element to help merchants remain competitive against modern retail stories in Mexico….
Mexico’s route to financial inclusion begins with commitment to reduce use of cash
Uruguay has taken a further step towards its goal to provide access to financial services to all with its announcement that it has joined the Alliance.
The Alliance contributed to the launch of Peru’s new mobile payment system, Bim, which plans to bring digital payments to 5 million Peruvians over 5 years.
Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company, announced that it will strengthen its commitment to digitize traditional small shops in Mexico.
This case study is the first to examine a shift to electronic payments in a large-scale rural business-to- business context.
This case study draws on interviews with ACH Colombia’s management as well as representatives of PSE’s stakeholders and users.
The Alliance is supporting ASBANC to help launch the platform as soon as possible with the endorsement of the National Financial Inclusion Commission.
The case studies reveal how each country developed their programme, current delivery & payment, and the costs and benefits of using e-payments.