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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Improving access to healthcare and decent work, reaching farmers, including merchants, equal opportunities for women and much more, through responsibly digitizing payments.
Alliance’s work in action
We explore lessons from working with our member governments to design and execute G2P & humanitarian payments.
Here, we share highlights of our collaboration with members despite the continuing serious challenges of COVID-19.
How will digitization of merchant payments improve women’s financial inclusion and economic resilience?
How can digital wages support decent work and inclusive economic recovery?
Building trust, mitigating risks and driving inclusive economies
New Report “Catalyzing Responsible Digital Payments in India’s North East Region” by UN based Better Than Cash Alliance
Our latest report guides humanitarians to assess if and how digital payments can be effective
This International Women’s Day, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is joining our Alliance to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals.
In a first study of its kind, data from nearly 3,000 factories across 58 countries, reveals that paying workers digitally correlates positively with better working conditions.
Gap Inc. joins the Better Than Cash Alliance with a bold digitization goal
Leading consumer goods company and sustainability champion Unilever has committed to transition away from cash throughout its value chain.
International Women’s Day Edition
500 million Indian smartphone users in next 5 years: a huge market for digital payments
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.
Digital payments can promote broader development goals of the G20 countries, according to a new report by the World Bank Development Research Group.
Women need confidential and easily accessible financial services as well as control over their finances, and electronic payments bring these features to financial products.
The case studies reveal how each country developed their programme, current delivery & payment, and the costs and benefits of using e-payments.
The discussion focused on the critical elements of Kenya’s successful transition process, the challenges and benefits of the shift.