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COVID-19 Exclusion Working Group (Gender) – Introduction and Strategic Enablers for Digital Payments Toolkit

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.

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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.

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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 per cent of fiscal policy spending but could digitisation of tax systems help widen this base? Rwanda is one country that has digitised collection of revenues and CNBC Africa spoke to the Minister of State in charge of the National Treasury, Richard Tusabe for more.

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[Webinar] COVID-19 Payments: Managing Risks, Ensuring Women’s Inclusion, and Communicating Clearly

This webinar responds to the question of how governments and humanitarian agencies can manage the risks associated with COVID-19 response payments, ensure women’s inclusion, and improve communications with recipients.

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

As part of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, governments are taking urgent measures to digitally pay health workers and vulnerable people. 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. The webinar outlined key takeaways on how governments could solve the challenges emerging from the COVID-19 crisis: - Keeping the digital payments ecosystem functioning and safe. - Delivering payments to health workers and, where possible, to affected families effectively. - Providing beneficiaries with the right information about these payments. For more information, please check out our case study “Saving Money, Saving Lives: A Case Study on the Benefits of Digitizing Payments to Ebola Response Workers in Sierra Leone.” http://ow.ly/SQAd30izODF
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Webinar: How to plan a shift to electronic payments for government
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Webinar: How to plan a shift to electronic payments for the development community
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Webinar: How to plan a shift to electronic payments for business
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Webinar: E-Payments Deliver 15% Greater Efficiency in Kenya -- Is This the Future of Food Aid?
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When Aid Goes Digital
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Saving Money, Saving Lives: Digital Payments and the Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone
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Success Factors in Tax Digitalization

This report presents a powerful new demonstration of how digital payments can transform millions of lives for the better.

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Cash Digitization: UN Collaboration, Coordination, and Harmonization Opportunities

New UN Better Than Cash Alliance’s Cash Digitization Study recommends strengthening cash assistance collaboration across UN agencies & partners, to improve coordination and harmonization.
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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.
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Partnering With the Private Sector to Extend Digital Financial Services to the Unbanked

How effective have digital payments been in promoting access to financial services and driving ecosystem growth in Jordan? This GIZ and Amarante Consulting study shares learnings and challenges with mobile wallet uptake among Syrian refugees, women and unbanked Jordanians.
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The age of digital interdependence

The UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation released their report earlier this month. It highlights the need for inclusivity and protection of human rights to ensure a safe digital future for all and shares 5 key recommendations.  
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Responding to conflict: Does “Cash Plus” work for preventing malnutrition?

New evidence from "Cash for Nutrition Program" in Yemen suggests that "soft conditionality" (encouraging to attend nutritional education) and effective targeting can play an important role in making cash transfer programs successful. This IFPRI study could be relevant for our humanitarian work. 
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Introducing GSM-enabled PAYG Solar in Cambodia

98% of off-grid customers of pay-as-you-go solar home systems apprciated the convenience of paying with mobile money.
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One token changing the game for sustainable rural water supply in Tanzania

A water payment's digitization project resulted in tripling water utility payments and reducing water collection waiting time from 3 hour to 10 minutes on average within a year, benefitting women in paricular.

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Branchless Banking in Pakistan: Opportunities and Challenges

The paper examines Strengths Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) of BB and recommends some strategies to overcome the identified challenges and make the avenue more profitable specifically in Pakistan.
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