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Scaling Responsible Digital Payments in the Indonesian Cocoa Sector

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.

Achieving Decent Work and Economic Growth by 2030: How Are Companies Making a Difference Through Payment Digitization?

From 1% to 30%: the journey of the Philippines towards responsible digital payments

A founding member of the Better Than Cash Alliance, the Philippines has paved the path in transitioning to responsible digital payments, providing many key lessons and insights for other cou…

Our work in India

Read about India’s transformational journey to scale responsible digital payments

Our 2022 in 3 words...

Improving access to healthcare and decent work, reaching farmers, including merchants, equal opportunities for women and much more, through responsibly digitizing payments.

Responsible Digital Payments for Women Merchants

Alliance’s work in action

LEARNING SERIES >> How to scale up digital wages in line with the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments

Lessons from Bangladesh, Jordan, and Senegal

Learning Series > Lessons on Government-to-Person and humanitarian payments, and gender intentionality

We explore lessons from working with our member governments to design and execute G2P & humanitarian payments.

LEARNING SERIES >> Progress on the journey to financial equality 

What being gender intentional has taught us about advancing digital financial equality for women. 

Country Diagnostic: Bangladesh (2022 edition)

Measuring progress to scale: Responsible digital payments in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s National Digital Payments Roadmap 2022-2025

The National Digital Payments Roadmap provides a high-level plan to expand the adoption of responsible digital payments in a way that is agile, inclusive, and helps achieve the SDGs.

India’s leading trade union of self-employed women makes bold commitment on responsible digital payments to benefit its 2.1 million women members

India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) joins the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance

Digitizing Payments Responsibly in the Tea Sector – Ethical Tea Partnership joins Better Than Cash Alliance

Ethical Tea Partnership is a membership organization working with tea companies, development organizations and governments to improve the lives of tea workers, farmers and their environment.

LEARNING SERIES >> What will it take for small merchants to embrace digital payments?

Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.

$18 billion merchant retail digitization opportunity in India's North East region

New Report “Catalyzing Responsible Digital Payments in India’s North East Region” by UN based Better Than Cash Alliance

Catalyzing Responsible Digital Payments in the North East Region of India

Taking stock of the digital payments ecosystem with a 7-point action plan to expand the merchant acceptance network

Responsible Digitization of Women Merchants in Rural India for COVID-19 Recovery

10 recommendations from civil society to unlock the impact of fintech in merchant digitization and further India’s progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

India Digital Payments Learning Exchange Series

Better Than Cash Alliance organized a peer exchange learning series to highlight the central and state government initiatives and facilitate peer learning to accelerate service delivery and digital financial inclusion.

Government of India, FICCI, and UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance come together for responsible merchant digitization in the North East, Himalayan Regions and Aspirational Districts

India and UN-Based Better Than Cash Alliance organized a joint Peer learning exchange on fintech solutions for responsible digital payments at the last mile