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 this edition of the newsletter, we applaud the leadership of Alliance members in the Philippines, Ghana and India who are ensuring that women can gain economic independence through digitization.
In 10 years, the Better Than Cash Alliance has spurred a global movement towards the responsible digitization of payments.
It’s hard to imagine a more explosive, transformative, and empowering trend than the growth of the mobile phone sector in Africa.
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the achievements of our members one year on from Reaching Financial Equality for Women, to ensure stronger economies that build on the strengths of women and girls.
Urgent measures needed to address climate vulnerability impacting 3.6 billion people, particularly women and marginalized groups.
What being gender intentional has taught us about advancing digital financial equality for women.
Lessons from our work with members in Ghana, India, Mexico, and the Philippines
Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
Learn about how the Alliance advocates for responsible payment digitization in agriculture
By Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, UNCDF, Advisor, Better Than Cash Alliance
Lessons from developing diagnostics and strategies with Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Philippines, and Senegal
The Alliance contributed to the launch of Peru’s new mobile payment system, Bim, which plans to bring digital payments to 5 million Peruvians over 5 years.
The case studies reveal how each country developed their programme, current delivery & payment, and the costs and benefits of using e-payments.
The paper presents use cases for digital financial services (DFS) along value chains across three broad categories- overcoming barriers to providing financial services, improving the efficiency of financial transactions, and improving market opportunities.
This Guidebook provides an easy-to-use tool to understand how digital finance is helping addressing some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers and includes some interesting use cases from Bangladesh, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.
This report is based on primary research on agriculture mobile payments initiatives in Ghana, Uganda and Zambia with the aim of understanding the potential of mobile finance for the agricultural sector and how these barriers might be overcome.
Case studies from The Philippines, Ghana, and Mexico to demonstrate how recourse has been improved
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
With 37 percent of the value of all payments now made digitally, Ghana is on course to be a leader in the region, with great potential to expand economic opportunities for businesses