Uganda

25 results

News >> Ideas & Updates

Three key findings that show that financial equality is within reach in our lifetime

New data from the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021 confirms the centrality of digital payments in reaching financial equality for all. 

© Shutterstock
Alliance Reports >> Flagship Publication

2021 Annual Report - Responsible digital payments: accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and rebuilding inclusive economies

The impressive achievements of our Alliance members, working together with the Secretariat, are highlighted in our 2021 Annual Report.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance | Arturo García
News >> Newsletter

RÉSULTATS DE LA TABLE RONDE du 31 août 2021

Plus de 20 parties prenantes, venant de 11 pays africains, ont participé à cette 3e table ronde.
News >> Newsletter

Outcomes From 3rd Roundtable > Pan-African Peer Exchange Series

The roundtable saw the participation of 20+ stakeholders from 11 African nations.
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

How do refugees use their mobile phones? 

New GSMA and UNHCR report looks at the ways in which refugees are using their mobile phones to help guide digital interventions by humanitarian organizations and mobile network operators. It identifies affordability, literacy, digital skills, and charging as the main barriers to mobile phone ownership and mobile internet usage.
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Extending pension coverage to the informal sector

This World Bank discussion paper argues that digital payments, along with other policies and tools, can help extend pension coverage to the informal sector in Africa. It also features case studies from 5 Alliance members namely Kenya, Rwanda, Benin, Ghana, and Uganda.
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

The Impact of Mobile Money on Poor Rural Households : Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Does access to mobile money help improve livelihood in remote settings? This paper shows that rolling out mobile money agents in Northern Uganda led to cost-savings for remittance transactions. It also shows that access to digital payments doubled the nonfarm self-employment rate and reduced the fraction of households with very low food security. 
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

The state of ICT in Uganda 

This IDRC and SIDA-funded policy paper looks at the state of Information and Communications Technologies in Uganda. Apart from other policy recommendations, it calls for addressing the issue of affordability of devices and data and revisiting the issue of social media and mobile money taxes.
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Mobile money enabled cash aid delivery: Operational handbook for mobile money providers

Section 1 of this handbook provides essential background on the humanitarian sector and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes. Section 2 outlines the operational steps involved in delivering CVA

© © GSMA
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Digitizing Uganda’s Education Sector with Mobile Payment Platform

A new payment platform launched by Mastercard, UNICEF and the Ministry of Education in Uganda is gaining traction, reaching over 130,000 registered students in just one year….
News >> Ideas & Updates

Why cash is a problem for businesses around the globe

This blog was originally published on The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business…
Alliance Reports >> Case Study

Improving profitability through digital payments

McLeod Russel Uganda (MRUL) cut costs and increased financial inclusion for workers after transitioning to a secure mobile payment system in Uganda.
© © MM4P
Global Resources >> Toolkits

Guidelines for ID4D Diagnostics Toolkit

The focus of this Guide is on the design and implementation of digital ID systems that provide people with proof of legal identity, which is commonly needed to access basic services, rights, and protections.
© © Guidelines for ID4D Diagnostics | World Bank
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Digitizing Value Chain Finance for Smallholder Farmers

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.

News >> Ideas & Updates

New United Nations Study: Digital payments could boost tax revenue by nearly US$500 million each year and drive economic modernization in Tanzania

Findings illustrate how the private and public sector could work together to modernize economies, improve transparency and support financial inclusion and growth…
Global Resources >> Industry Reports

Mobile payments: How digital finance is transforming agriculture

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.
News >> Ideas & Updates

Ugandan farmers – majority women - devise new mobile solution

Farmers are adapting mobile technology to meet market needs and drive progress on their own terms rather than waiting for telecommunications companies to deliver solutions…
© © Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, all rights reserved
News >> Ideas & Updates

Three ways financial providers can improve digital financial services for women

by Emilia Klimiuk and Lisa Kienzle of Grameen Foundation
© Grameen Foundation
News >> Ideas & Updates

Going rural with digital financial services

When a family member first told Mary that she could use her mobile phone to store her money, she felt that she had finally found a safe place to keep the earnings from her vegetable sales….
© ©Malaika Media Uganda
News >> Ideas & Updates

Two challenges to help two billion reach financial security

Reposted from the original Gates Foundation blog on Impatient Optimists. Until recently, achieving financial inclusion for the world’s unbanked poor was a pressing goal with perplexing obstacles.