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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Analyzing impacts and potential of mobile money on (women’s) economic empowerment, financial inclusion and poverty reduction.
Mobile money accounts have spread widely in select regions of the developing world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This Research Brief focuses on the individual and household impacts of mobile money.
COVID-19 is causing unprecedented health, economic and social crises and threatens the poverty and inclusion gains that have been made over the last decade.
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.
This University of New South Wales paper proposes a framework – a Regulatory Diagnostic Toolkit (RDT) – designed to support financial regulators in emerging markets to advance their regulatory regimes for DFS.
This guide is for institutions interested in developing a supply chain finance solution.
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) developed this toolkit in collaboration with Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA).
The RDT is the world’s first structured analytical framework to support regulators by using a systematic approach to assess, adapt and advance regulatory regimes for DFS.
This is a first draft of the Guidelines (Overview – Part I)
This is a draft version and remains work-in-progress as digital financial services is a rapidly evolving space.
This draft (Annex I – Due Diligence Tool V.1) remains work-in-progress as digital financial services is a rapidly evolving space
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.
The toolkits, available both in French and English, are designed for financial service providers (FSPs) who want to go digital.
This handbook has been designed to assist those responsible for regulating and supervising the use of DFS in emerging markets.
Understand the incentives for digitizing payments in your country.
Learn about emerging trends in development partner payments and how to make the case for digitizing payments by your organization.
Use existing data sources and plan new research to estimate payment flows by government, businesses and individuals.
A Toolkit for USAID Implementing Partners and Development Organizations