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Beyond Access: From Accounts to Opportunity

The World Bank’s Global Findex 2025 is a scorecard on how well countries, across the globe are transitioning from cash toward equitable digital payments. Headline number shows that 79 percent of adults now own an account, up 28 points since 2011. Financial exclusion for women remains significant and many accounts remain inactive.

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Shaping Africa’s Digital Future: A Call for Sovereign Roadmaps

With the DPI Roadmap Playbook as a guide, Africa has a unique opportunity to shape a digital future that is people-first, inclusive, and sovereign.

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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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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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Our Work on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

DPI, encompassing digital payments, identification, and data exchange, can significantly accelerate financial inclusion and economic growth. By enabling secure, scalable, and interoperable systems, DPI reduces costs, enhances security, and expands access to underserved populations.

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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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Beyond Access: From Accounts to Opportunity

Shaping Africa’s Digital Future: A Call for Sovereign Roadmaps

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

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

Our Work on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

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

IWCA Endorses Responsible Digital Payments to Accelerate Women's Economic Participation in Coffee Value Chain

Positive progress on digital wages

Igniting women-led development with inclusive digital finance: G20 EMPOWER summit resounding appeal

Three key findings that show that financial equality is within reach in our lifetime

UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments in action > an online learning course!

Digitizing payments can add US$6.2 billion to Bangladesh’s annual GDP

LEARNING SERIES >> Government-to-Person Payments as a Cornerstone for Financial Inclusion during COVID-19

LEARNING SERIES >> Responsible G2P: User-centricity to drive usage of digital payments

LEARNING SERIES >> Collaboration to design and implement responsible G2P payments

Colombia: Innovations in the delivery of Ingreso Solidario

Digitizing payments in the Ghana cocoa sector: The path to financial equality

LEARNING SERIES >> Collaborating to scale the responsible digitization of humanitarian payments

LEARNING SERIES >> Improving efficiency in domestic resource mobilization through the digitization of revenue payments

LEARNING SERIES >> Tax digitalization: building a trusted ecosystem through a common vision

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Beyond Access: From Accounts to Opportunity

Shaping Africa’s Digital Future: A Call for Sovereign Roadmaps

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

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

Our Work on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

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

IWCA Endorses Responsible Digital Payments to Accelerate Women's Economic Participation in Coffee Value Chain

Positive progress on digital wages

Igniting women-led development with inclusive digital finance: G20 EMPOWER summit resounding appeal

Three key findings that show that financial equality is within reach in our lifetime

UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments in action > an online learning course!

Digitizing payments can add US$6.2 billion to Bangladesh’s annual GDP

LEARNING SERIES >> Government-to-Person Payments as a Cornerstone for Financial Inclusion during COVID-19

LEARNING SERIES >> Responsible G2P: User-centricity to drive usage of digital payments

LEARNING SERIES >> Collaboration to design and implement responsible G2P payments

Colombia: Innovations in the delivery of Ingreso Solidario

Digitizing payments in the Ghana cocoa sector: The path to financial equality

LEARNING SERIES >> Collaborating to scale the responsible digitization of humanitarian payments

LEARNING SERIES >> Improving efficiency in domestic resource mobilization through the digitization of revenue payments

LEARNING SERIES >> Tax digitalization: building a trusted ecosystem through a common vision