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.
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This article outlines ways governments can step in to ensure mobile services help the world’s most vulnerable communities fight the pandemic and access essential support.
Millions of garment workers and their families are severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries where with social protection systems are underdeveloped.
This research focuses on disability, using human-centred design methods to better understand how refugees and Kenyans with visual and hearing impairments in Nairobi use mobile technology and potential opportunities that it could provide.
¿Cómo ha proporcionado Colombia apoyo económico a través de transferencias financieras digitales a casi 3 millones de hogares gravemente afectados por la pandemia? ¿Qué medidas ha tomado el gobierno para llegar a más de 1 millón de hogares, que son usuarios por primera vez de dinero móvil?
Guest speakers highlighted Colombia’s experience in providing digital transfers to nearly 3 million households.
In this e-blast, we give a quick round-up of how our members, new ones and old, are turning to digitization in their battles against COVID-19.
This webinar captured lessons on delivering vital government-to-person (G2P) payments that expands choice.
Co-hosted by the Better Than Cash Alliance and CGAP, this webinar captured lessons on delivering vital government-to-person (G2P) payments in a way that expands choice while managing liquidity and cash-out in innovative ways.
This guidance note outlines the most significant challenges that MNOs face (or likely to face) in the context of supporting the delivery of humanitarian assistance in a COVID-19 world and offers relevant recommendations to governments on how to help address or mitigate these challenges.
The Better Than Cash Alliance hosted a webinar to highlight key lessons from Sierra Leone’s use of digital payments in their Ebola response, which shaped the outcome of the crisis in West Africa.
This research offers evidence to help MNOs make informed decisions about engaging in partnerships with humanitarian organisations, and to help humanitarian actors better understand their MNO partners and build successful long-term partnerships.
As the tragic human costs of COVID-19 mount, the need for practical, scalable, quick and effective solutions is urgent. Now more than ever, it’s time to put digital payments to work.
The Better Than Cash Alliance will host a webinar to highlight key lessons from Sierra Leone’s use of digital payments in their Ebola response, which shaped the outcome of the crisis in West Africa.
New partnership will result in promoting digital payments as an important tool to increase security, financial inclusion and economic opportunities in the workplace.
This report by GSMA and UNHCR looks at the ways in which refugees are using mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators.
New GSMA and UNHCR report looks at the ways in which refugees are using their mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators. It identifies affordability, literacy, digital skills, and charging as the main barriers to mobile phone ownership and mobile internet usage.