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Data Privacy and Protection: Guidance Note to Kenya’s Digital Financial Services

This guidance note highlights how Kenya’s innovation and fintech ecosystem can comply with data protection laws while keeping the customer in mind.

Trust can conquer the final frontier in digitisation where women merchants can lead it

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.

McKinsey: The future of payments in the Middle East

Through surveys with consumers and payments practitioners, McKinsey share anticipated trends which will shape the region’s ‘payments revolution’ over the next five years.

What are the challenges and opportunities of responsibly digitizing humanitarian payments?

Our latest report guides humanitarians to assess if and how digital payments can be effective

State of Digital Payments in the Philippines - Highlights Report (2021 edition)

This highlights report captures the progress of payments digitalization in the country in 2019 and the first half of 2020.

UNCDF 2020 Annual Report

‘Harnessing the true power of capital: Unlocking the growth potential of the last mile’, details recent achievements and future challenges in accelerating SDG achievement in LDCs.

Résultats de la 2è table ronde de la Pan-African Peer Exchange Series

Merci d'avoir participé à la 2è table ronde de la Pan-African Peer Exchange Series, consacrée à la numérisation responsable des paiements d'impôts.

Ethiopia’s digital payment gateway

Ethiopia: NBE Launches Digital Payment Strategy

Ethiopia Digital Payments Strategy: Digital Ethiopia 2025

A digital strategy for Ethiopia inclusive prosperity

Ethiopia’s National Digital Payments Strategy 2021-2024

An inclusive digital payment ecosystem is a key enabler to make Digital Ethiopia a reality by 2025 and advance the Sustainable Development Goals

Looking Ahead - Ethiopia launches new digital payments strategy to catalyze inclusive growth

To speed up Ethiopia’s journey towards digital transformation, the Government of Ethiopia is launching today the first-ever digital payments strategy.

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.

E-money, Financial Inclusion and Mobile Money Tax in Sub-Saharan African Mobile Networks

The paper studies the incidence of new mobile money excise duties on the adoption of electronic money.

UNCDF: Inclusive Digital Economies and Gender Equality Playbook

A practical guide to leveraging a market system development approach to decrease the digital and financial gender divide.

Generating potential government cost savings of US$1.1 billion

The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have been severely affected by COVID-19, with a regional GDP contraction of 6.7%** according to the World Bank.

Maximizing Government Cost Savings

Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica are demonstrating that digital payments are an essential part of the economic recovery

Open source in government: creating the conditions for success

Open source software can be a powerful tool in responsibly building digital economies. Public Digitals’s latest research outlining conditions for success for governments looking to adopt the technology.

Mastercard: Reimagining support for small businesses

Mastercard & Kearney explore the path to creating stronger, more resilient small businesses through and beyond COVID-19.