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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Scaling digitization of payments for small and micro merchants by convening key stakeholders to co-create solutions.
Small merchants exert a big influence on the global economy.
Lessons from our work with members in Ghana, India, Mexico, and the Philippines
Planning: Vision and commitment to make digital payments a national priority
Better Than Cash Alliance welcomes The Coca-Cola Company as its member.
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.
New data gathered from the Higg Index from 3,000 factories in 58 countries
Better Than Cash Alliance organized a peer exchange learning series to highlight the central and state government initiatives and facilitate peer learning to accelerate service delivery and digital financial inclusion.
This blog was originally published on BSR.org…
Ingreso Solidario is a COVID-19 social protection programme in Colombia benefitting 3 million households. It shows digital payments can be rapidly dispersed across multiple channels.
Sierra Leone’s experience shows the critical importance of preparing early for digital payments before crises hit.
Lessons from Bangladesh, Jordan, and Senegal
By Jeffrey Bower, Digital Finance Specialist, Better Than Cash Alliance …
Prioritizing women, deepening digital infrastructure, designing for users, and building trust drive usage of digital financial services
The ability to make and receive payments electronically has emerged, in recent years, as a technology hero during natural disasters and health pandemics. At a time when more people than ever…
There is an urgent need and powerful opportunity to further boost the outreach, efficiency, and efficacy of digital humanitarian payments through enhanced coordination between UN agencies.
We explore lessons from working with our member governments to design and execute G2P & humanitarian payments.
By BTCA Communications Team…
Successful digitization of P2G payments and its widespread adoption by users is achievable - but depends on the alignment of various important factors.
Working with our members to help them collaborate with the private sector to build responsible digital payments ecosystems for the underserved and excluded.