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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

2022 Annual Report - Scaling responsible digital payments to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly financial equality for women

In 10 years, the Better Than Cash Alliance has spurred a global movement towards the responsible digitization of payments.
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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

Scaling up Responsible Digital Payments in the Rwandan Tea Sector

This study lays the foundation for incorporating United Nations Principles for Responsible Digital Payments in the Rwandan tea sector, with the goal of increasing efficiency and improving farmers’ living incomes.

© ©UNICEF / UN0308775 / Rusanganwa
News >> Ideas & Updates

LEARNING SERIES >> Progress on the journey to financial equality 

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

News >> Ideas & Updates

Digitizing payments in the Ghana cocoa sector: The path to financial equality

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the achievements of our members one year on from Reaching Financial Equality for Women, to ensure stronger economies that build on the strengths of women and girls.
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News >> Ideas & Updates

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.
© ©Shutterstock
News >> Media Release

West Africa launches new payments digitization agenda

Media release from the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Bank and the National Agency of Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD)
© © Better Than Cash Allaince/ Elise Fitte-Duval
News >> Media Release

FAO pledges to scale up direct use of digital financial transfers

Director-General says joining the Better Than Cash Alliance is part of stimulating more innovation and financial inclusion for smallholders
© © FAO
Alliance Reports >> Case Study

Helping Livestock Herders Modernize and Operate More Professionally

In 2020 Kossam SDE successfully launched payment digitization for more than 850 herders, helping to improve their living and working conditions.
© © La Laiterie du Berger
News >> Ideas & Updates

The Cost of Cash to Ghana’s Cocoa Sector

Digital payments can help make the sector more efficient, transparent, and secure for companies and people alike.
© © iStock
News >> Ideas & Updates

Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Identity: Prospects and Pitfalls Ahead

Blockchain Series: Blog 4
© © WFP
News >> Ideas & Updates

Ethiopia: “Mobile money doubled my number of customers in just three years”

In Addis Ababa, the vibrant Ethiopian capital, lies a busy Somali community market where Bisharo runs a small shop.
© © Dayan Berhe / Better Than Cash Alliance
News >> Ideas & Updates

Driving to Scale: Bim’s Journey to Digital Financial Inclusion in Peru

Interview with Felipe Vásquez de Velasco, General Manager of Peruvian Digital Payments (PDP)
© © Pagos Digitales Peruanos (PDP)
News >> Ideas & Updates

“Digital payments can be a game-changer for farmers”

Interview with World Cocoa Foundation, Paul F. Macek, Vice President for Programs

© © World Cocoa Foundation
News >> Ideas & Updates

UN study: Digitization of Kenyan farmer payments helps tackle poverty

One Acre Fund cut payment losses and collection costs by over 80 percent, boosting farmers’ satisfaction and economic opportunity…
News >> Ideas & Updates

Ugandan farmers – majority women - devise new mobile solution

Farmers are adapting mobile technology to meet market needs and drive progress on their own terms rather than waiting for telecommunications companies to deliver solutions…
© © Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, all rights reserved
News >> Ideas & Updates

The Better Than Cash Journey: Concern and CARE

This is the fourth in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members. These highlights capture the innovative work by governments, businesses and development organizations to fulfill their commitment to transition from cash to digital payments.
© ©Concern Worldwide
News >> Ideas & Updates

The Better Than Cash Journey: Colombia & Malawi

This is the second in a series of articles written by Maura Hart on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members. These highlights capture the innovative work by governments, businesses and development organizations to fulfill their commitment to transition from cash to digital payments.
News >> Ideas & Updates

Going rural with digital financial services

When a family member first told Mary that she could use her mobile phone to store her money, she felt that she had finally found a safe place to keep the earnings from her vegetable sales….
© ©Malaika Media Uganda
News >> Ideas & Updates

Seeing the Benefits of Electronic Aid Delivery Up Close in Rwanda

Earlier this year, we shared the story of the World Food Programme (WFP) introducing cash transfers on mobile phones at the Gihembe refugee camp in northern Rwanda. …
News >> Ideas & Updates

The Better Than Cash Alliance Is Out to Create a “Cash Lite” World

The Better Than Cash Alliance Is Out to Create a “Cash Lite” World…