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COVID-19: Making the case for robust digital financial infrastructure

In this report, the relationship between financial infrastructure and the performance of disbursement programs in their design ambition and how well they delivered is assessed.

Accelerating responsible digital payments for COVID-19 relief

The devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have heightened the need for proven solutions to keep the Sustainable Development Goals within reach

Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers Toolkit

The Report Responsible Practices to Address Seven Major Risks in COVID-19 Digital Financial Transfers identifies seven heightened risks resulting from the speed and scale of COVID-19 digital transfer responses.

Webinar recording > Managing Liquidity and Cash-Out for Social Payments During COVID-19

This webinar captured lessons on delivering vital government-to-person (G2P) payments that expands choice.

Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Identity: Prospects and Pitfalls Ahead

Blockchain Series: Blog 4

Cash Digitization: UN Collaboration, Coordination, and Harmonization Opportunities

Dollars and Change-Podcast

Wharton Business Radio hosts Better Than Cash Alliance on the “Dollars and Change” podcast….

Blockchain for humanitarian action and development aid

Blockchain technology is swiftly entering the fields of humanitarian and development aid. While it has the potential to revolutionize the aid sector, e.g., through pairing smart contracts wi…

Branchless Banking in Pakistan: Opportunities and Challenges

The paper examines strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of branchless banking and recommends some strategies around the identified challenges with a focus on Pakistan.

How Digital Payments Are Connecting People With Opportunities To Improve Their Lives

This blog post was originally published in the Huffington Post…

Introducing GSM-enabled PAYG Solar in Cambodia

The report tracks the implementation of a Cambodian company Kamwork’s pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar home systems (SHSs) with GSM-based machine-to- machine (M2M) connectivity to validate the business model and determine what level of support from GSM network coverage.

Inter-American Development Bank becomes first regional development bank to join partnership to advance digital payments

The organization joins a UN-hosted alliance of governments, companies and international organizations to accelerate the move towards digitization of payments

The Better Than Cash Journey: Mercy Corps & Women’s World Banking

This is the first in a series of articles on the achievements of several Better Than Cash Alliance members…

First There Was Cash-for-Assets – Could WFP’s New E-Payments Model be Scaled Up Too?

Kenya has been hailed as one of the developing world’s leaders in electronic payments. So it should come as no surprise that a sparsely populated, dusty village 500 kilometres from Nairobi i…

Catholic Relief Services Joins Better Than Cash Alliance

CRS Commits to Increase Electronic Payments to Strengthen Local Economies…

Shift to Electronic Payments Saves Mexican Government US$1.27 Billion Annually

Study concludes Mexico’s savings and other benefits and provides tangible lessons for other nations

“Ti Manman Cheri” Experiments with Mobile Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments in Haiti

This is one in a series of case studies that was made possible by a grant from the Government of the United Kingdom’s DFID to the CGAP in support of the work of the Better Than Cash Alliance.

Empowering People One Transaction at a Time

Empowering People One Transaction at a Time: Leading Corporations, Foundations and Development Organizations Form “Better Than Cash Alliance” to Accelerate Global Shift to Electronic Payments