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 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.
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.
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.
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.
We urge governments, humanitarian actors, international financial institutions, and financial service providers to utilize responsible digital payments for prompt emergency response and preventive action.
Discussed how responsible digital wage payments can contribute to workers’ empowerment, financial inclusion, and sustainable enterprises, creating benefits for workers and employers.
This resource, comprising 9 overarching principles, serves as a guide for governments, companies & international orgs embracing responsible digital payments.
Understand insights on ‘Government’s Perspective – Responsible Digital Payments in Covid-19’, with us at The Economic Times Digital Payments 2.0 Virtual Summit.
How has Colombia provided digital financial transfers to nearly 3 million households severely affected by the pandemic?
Launch of the Pan-African Peer Exchange Series : Digitizing Government Payments Amid Covid-19 organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Better Than Cash Alliance.
Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever went on the record to demonstrate how, in partnership with the Alliance, they are prioritizing digital financial services for all women in their supply chains.
Mr. Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s Finance Minister, outlines 5 actions in the upcoming National Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Strategies.
This two-minute video from the United Nations-based Better Than Cash Alliance is about Romita, a widow in the North East of India who opened a bank account to receive a government loan for a power loom.
Government members of the Better Than Cash Alliance, Jordan, Peru and Ghana shared key insights on how they are delivering digital payments responsibly to the most vulnerable during a time of crisis. This webinar demonstrated how integrating the Responsible Digital Payments Guidelines in payment responses is possible at a time like this, and why it is an important building block for recovery.
This webinar is the second in the Global Learning Exchange Series on Digital Payments, hosted by the International Labor Organization (ILO), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the IFC/ILO Better Work Programme, and the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance.
Millions of garment workers and their families are severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries where with social protection systems are underdeveloped.
In a six-month pilot, mStar Project used awareness tools, local youth, and behavior change agents to teach women farmers how to use and gain trustin digital payments. 500 women were trained and 353 opened digital accounts.
MTN has piloted a mobile-based solution, mAgric, that enables agribusinesses to digitize payments to farmers. Learn more in this GSMA video.
Kenyan AgTech company, Virtual City, has created a mobile-based tool called Agrimanagr that enables digitization of dairy value chain. Watch the video to learn more.
