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COVID-19: How digitisation of Rwanda's tax systems is countering fiscal spending

On average government revenues on the continent account for 21.4% of fiscal policy spending but could digitisation of tax systems help widen this base?

[Webinar] Digital Payments in Ebola Response: Lessons for the COVID-19 Crisis

The Better Than Cash Alliance hosted a webinar to highlight key lessons from Sierra Leone’s use of digital payments in their Ebola response, which shaped the outcome of the crisis in West Africa.

Launch of the Pan-African Peer Exchange Series: Digitizing Government Payments Amid COVID-19

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.

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

Webinar: E-Payments Deliver 15% Greater Efficiency in Kenya -- Is This the Future of Food Aid?

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.

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

Voices from Ghana

Digitization in local development workshop in Senegal (French)

Numérisation des paiement: Atelier de prevalidation du rapport provisoire d'étude

Dakaractu, la chaine d'information en ligne!

RTS1 – Workshop on the pre-validation of the interim study report on digitizing payments in Senegal

Media coverage on RTS1 (Senegalese Radio Broadcasting Channel) on a workshop to pre-validate landscaping study held in Dakar, Senegal on 25th March 2019.

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.

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.

Better Than Cash Alliance’s Peer Exchange Visit to India

Peru’s Former Minister, Carolina Trivelli, Joins Global Call to Action on Financial Equality

In this video, Peru’s former Minister of Social Development, Carolina Trivelli, speaks about specific actions to help women reach financial equality.

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.

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

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

Can Financial Services Lift Women Out of Poverty? #GOALKEEPERS17

Webinar: Leaving Money on the Table - Digitizing Business Payments in the Philippines