Financial inclusion

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.

Responsible Digital Payments to Accelerate Climate Action

We urge governments, humanitarian actors, international financial institutions, and financial service providers to utilize responsible digital payments for prompt emergency response and preventive action.

تعزيز رفاه العاملات والعمال ودعم المؤسسات المستدامة من خلال مدفوعات الأجور الرقمية

Promoting workers’ well-being and sustainable enterprises through digital wage payments

Discussed how responsible digital wage payments can contribute to workers’ empowerment, financial inclusion, and sustainable enterprises, creating benefits for workers and employers.

Unilever's CEO, Alan Jope, Joins the Global Call to Action for Reaching Financial Equality

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.

Ahmed Shide, Finance Minister, outlines how Ethiopia will prioritize #financialequality for women

Mr. Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s Finance Minister, outlines 5 actions in the upcoming National Digital Payments and Financial Inclusion Strategies.

[Webinar] COVID-19 Payments: Managing Risks, Ensuring Women’s Inclusion, and Communicating Clearly

This webinar responds to the question of how governments and humanitarian agencies can manage the risks associated with COVID-19 response payments, ensure women’s inclusion, and improve communications with recipients.

What powers her loom? A story of women’s digital financial inclusion from Manipur, India

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.

[Webinar] Public-private collaboration in COVID-19 emergency payments response: Lessons from Colombia

How has Colombia provided digital financial transfers to nearly 3 million households severely affected by the pandemic?

Digitising the agricultural last mile in Ghana: MTN Mobile Money’s mAgric

MTN has piloted a mobile-based solution, mAgric, that enables agribusinesses to digitize payments to farmers. Learn more in this GSMA video.

Bringing efficiency to Kenya’s dairy value chain: Virtual City’s Agrimanagr

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.

Uruguay incrementa el uso de los pagos digitales gracias a incentivos fiscales

Digitization in local development workshop in Senegal (French)

Raisina 2018 | Digital Money: Innovating with India for the World

Better Than Cash Alliance’s Peer Exchange Visit to India

Saving Money, Saving Lives: Digital Payments and the Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone

Building A Digital Payments Ecosystem

Making Cash History: How Digital Payments can help drive the Global Goals

Webinar: How to plan a shift to electronic payments for government

Webinar: How to plan a shift to electronic payments for the development community