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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How are financial service providers, governments, and regulators improving recourse systems to increase trust and treat users fairly?
Ingreso Solidario is a COVID-19 social protection programme in Colombia benefitting 3 million households. It shows digital payments can be rapidly dispersed across multiple channels.
New partnership will result in promoting digital payments as an important tool to increase security, financial inclusion and economic opportunities in the workplace.
Join us on 22nd February for a discussion on digital wages in the garment and footwear supply chain.
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.
There is an urgent need and powerful opportunity to further boost the outreach, efficiency, and efficacy of digital humanitarian payments through enhanced coordination between UN agencies.
This is a draft of the Guidelines (Part II – Proposed Actions and References)
This is a first draft of the Guidelines (Overview – Part I)
By taking cash out of the equation, electronic transfers promise a faster, more secure and more transparent (so less corruptible) means of getting help.
This paper analyzes how existing Digital Financial Services initiatives can better align to support humanitarian response, and uses a framework for comprehensively considering e-payment preparedness. Central African Republic, Pakistan, Nigeria, the Philippines, Somalia, and Yemen have been evaluated as per the framework.
A compilation of what we have learnt from supporting country diagnostic reports and national strategies, merchant payments (P2B) and Person to Government (P2G) payments.
Report on Paraguay’s COVID-19 policy response, digital financial services, and women’s financial inclusion.
This ILO brief gives an overview of the different considerations to maximize the potential of digital wage payments.
Socialprotection.org research finds investment in gender-responsive social protection systems, and research, is key to a more equitable future post-COVID-19.
Improving social protection through public-private collaboration and responsible digital payment practices as part of COVID-19 emergency response
Measuring progress to scale: Responsible digital payments in Bangladesh