Digital government

Launching the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments

Building trust, mitigating risks and driving inclusive economies

Developing Inclusive Digital Payment Systems

This report from Centre for Strategic and International Studies makes a strong case for digital payments for equity, development and security.

Improving Humanitarian Payments Through Digital Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities

This report assesses the challenges and opportunities of responsibly digitizing the delivery of humanitarian payments through an exploration of five key technologies.

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.

Maximizing Government Cost Savings

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

COVID-19 Payments: Managing Risks, Ensuring Women’s Inclusion, and Communicating Clearly

UNECA and Better Than Cash Alliance have partnered to launch pan-African peer exchange series on responsible digital payments

The “Digitizing Government Payments Amid COVID-19" series

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)

L’Afrique de l’Ouest lance un nouvel agenda de numérisation des paiements

Communiqué de presse de Better Than Cash Alliance, la Banque mondiale et l’Agence Nationale des Statistiques du Sénégal (ANSD)

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

Covid-19 G2P Cash-Transfer Payments

This brief highlights the role of cash transfers and digital distribution as a part of COVID-19 response in Colombia.

G2PX: Digitizing government-to-person payments

The G2PX initiative brings expertise across sectors to contribute to the broader agenda of improving government-to-person payments through digitization.

7 lessons COVID-19 taught us about improving digital payments

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

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.

COVID-19 Exclusion Working Group (Gender) – Introduction and Strategic Enablers for Digital Payments Toolkit

COVID-19 is causing unprecedented health, economic and social crises and threatens the poverty and inclusion gains that have been made over the last decade.

Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers Toolkit

The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.

Success Factors in Tax Digitalization

This report presents a powerful new demonstration of how digital payments can transform millions of lives for the better.

To Help the World’s Poor, Put Money on Their Phones