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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

Acelerando la integración económica de la población migrante en Colombia a través de monederos móviles

El Programa Mundial de Alimentos y la Alianza Better Than Cash implementaron un piloto en Colombia que utilizó monederos móviles para distribuir pagos humanitarios, promoviendo la inclusión financiera, especialmente de mujeres vulnerables, con resultados positivos en ahorro, planificación familiar y empoderamiento económico.
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News >> Ideas & Updates

We have reached a potent moment for the global DPI agenda. Through its G20 presidency, how can South Africa accelerate the momentum?

The co-authors are part of a consortium that came together to draft the DPI Roadmap Playbook, an effort welcomed by the Government of South Africa, which holds the 2025 G20 Presidency. The DPI Roadmap Playbook reflects input from many expert advisors, especially Deon Woods-Bell of the Gates Foundation, whose support was instrumental. This expert comment is published across each of the organization’s respective websites.
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News >> Ideas & Updates

DPI Roadmap Playbook

Download the DPI Roadmap Playbook
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Global Resources >> Videos

Digitizing wages to empower tea workers in Malawi

In 2024, the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA), in partnership with the Tea Association of Malawi (TAML), launched a pilot to digitize wage payments across Malawi’s tea estates.
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News >> Ideas & Updates

Expanding Opportunities for Egypt’s Women- and Youth-Led MSMEs Through Digital Trade

A new collaboration between the Better Than Cash Alliance (the Alliance), the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), and partners such as the African Union Women, Gender and Youth Directorate and AUDA-NEPAD is working to address persistent gaps in digital trade and financial inclusion.

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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

Sembrando el futuro: transformando el sector cafetalero de Guatemala con pagos digitales responsables

La Alianza y Anacafé colaboraron en un estudio que reveló que las transacciones en efectivo cuestan al sector cafetalero en Guatemala $6.8 millones por cosecha.

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News >> Ideas & Updates

Transforming Ethiopia’s Health Sector: Digitizing Payments for Improved Access and Efficiency

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health launched a nationwide Digital Health Payment Initiative in August 2024, aiming to revolutionize healthcare payments by making them more efficient, transparent, and inclusive through digital financial services.
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Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Cash Transfer Payment Mechanisms: Do Outcomes Vary According to Payment Mechanism?

This research shows that the method of money distribution, whether physical or digital, does not significantly influence its usage.
© © 2024 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
Global Resources >> Videos

Webinar: Cashless Coffee – Brewing the Future of Payments

60 Decibels, in collaboration with the Gates Foundation and UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance, has been working to understand coffee farmers’ experience with digital payments and if they believe it to be better than cash.
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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

G20 Brazil Policy Options for Bridging the Last Mile

The Better Than Cash Alliance released the G20 Policy Options to Improve Last Mile Access, offering actionable public policy recommendations to tackle systemic barriers to financial inclusion.
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News >> Newsletter

UNDP Welcomes Better Than Cash Alliance and Introduces New Alliance Managing Director

Strategic Partnership to Enhance Financial Inclusion and Digital Payment Solutions
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News >> Ideas & Updates

UNDP welcomes the Better Than Cash Alliance to accelerate financial inclusion through responsible digital payments

The Better Than Cash Alliance has transitioned from UNCDF to join UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub
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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

Call to Action: Health for All through Responsible Digital Payments

Despite global technological advancements, healthcare costs continue to push millions into extreme poverty every year. …
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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

The Trust Quotient: An ASEAN Policy Toolkit for Unlocking Responsible Digital Payments for Micro-Merchants

Real-world experiences from micro-merchants across ASEAN that highlight the factors that build or erode trust in DFS.
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News >> Ideas & Updates

Global engagement in scaling instant payments: insights, strategies, and trust building

Over the past few months, the Alliance facilitated a series of peer exchanges, bringing together the architects of some of the world’s most dynamic digital payment platforms—systems that process billions of transactions monthly, such as India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Brazil’s rapidly evolving PIX.
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News >> Ideas & Updates

Our work in Bangladesh

Learn how the Alliance is advocating for inclusive digital payments for resilience and growth in Bangladesh.
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Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

2023 Annual Report

Scaling responsible digital payments to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly financial equality for women

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Alliance Reports >> Case Study

Scaling Responsible Digital Payments in the Indonesian Cocoa Sector

The Government of Indonesia, with the Indonesian cocoa sector and the Better Than Cash Alliance has conducted a first-of-its-kind sizing exercise to assess opportunities for digital financial inclusion for smallholder cocoa farmers.
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Global Resources >> Videos

We are the Better Than Cash Alliance - A video introduction to our work

We are the Better Than Cash Alliance, a UN-based partnership of over 80 members - governments, companies, and international organizations- committed to responsible digital payments to advance the SDGs.

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Global Resources >> Videos

Women Voices on Reaching Financial Equality - IWD 2024

We design each Better Than Cash Alliance initiative with the unique needs of women in mind - be it users of digital payments, entrepreneurs, or policymakers who can make the financial system more equal for women.

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