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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In wealthy countries, most people conduct their financial activity in digital form; money and value is stored virtually and transferred instantaneously with a touch of a button.
Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Key to Poverty Alleviation and Economic Growth, say World Leaders…
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.
Rwanda to accelerate digital payments by joining the Better Than Cash Alliance
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.
Government aims for economic growth and women’s empowerment through digital payments initiative…
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
Kenya has been hailed as one of the developing world’s leaders in electronic payments. So it should come as no surprise that a sparsely populated, dusty village 500 kilometres from Nairobi i…
Crises of all sorts, from conflicts to natural disasters to health emergencies, are happening at unprecedented rates around the world — so much so that the United Nations convened the first World Humanitarian Summit this week.
Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
From Peru to Rwanda to India, people, governments and businesses are increasingly making their payment transactions digitally, whether by mobile phone, by card or online.
L'expérience de la Sierra Leone montre qu'il est crucial de se préparer tôt aux paiements numériques avant l'émergence d'une crise.
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
The African Union, AfCFTA, the Better Than Cash Alliance & Smart Africa, launch a call to action to drive responsible digitization for the achievement of Agenda 2063.
Media release from the Better Than Cash Alliance, the World Bank and the National Agency of Statistics and Demography of Senegal (ANSD)
Prioritizing women, deepening digital infrastructure, designing for users, and building trust drive usage of digital financial services
Empowering People One Transaction at a Time: Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form “Better Than Cash Alliance” to Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Payments
One of the largest economies in Latin America keeps growth momentum going by joining the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance to foster a financially inclusive economy
Sierra Leone’s experience shows the critical importance of preparing early for digital payments before crises hit.
The Better Than Cash Alliance, hosted by UNCDF, gathered with colleagues at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) Council of Governors Annual Meeting last month in Urubamba, Peru….