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This report shares five lessons and insights on the scaling of digital financial services from a partnership between BSR’s HERproject and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. The partnership aims to leverage the HERfinance Digital Wages program to scale up…
RISE Digital Wages Toolkit is a technology tool developed with Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, to support managers to transition from cash to digital wages, considering the needs of female workers.
In July and August 2020, as part of the HERfinance program, with support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Levi Strauss Foundation, HERproject surveyed 700 workers (57 percent of whom were female), who received HERfinance training from…
HERproject has developed a set of six posters messages for workers based around the six digital wages modules to be displayed around the workplace
This report summarizes the channels through which the knowledge and technological benefits of digital payments and digital IDs can catalyze change in the implementation of welfare initiatives and household decisions surrounding these programs. The authors highlight four open areas of…
This case study presents how Unilever partnered with Mastercard and Kenya Commercial Bank to develop a digital working capital platform helping small merchants grow sales in Kenya, called Jaza Duka.
This case study presents how McLeod Russel Uganda (MRUL) cut costs and increased financial inclusion for workers after transitioning to a secure mobile payment system in Uganda.
This report and accompanying video by the Better than Cash Alliance present Sierra Leone’s experience using digital wallets for the payment of frontline Ebola response workers.
Various agents – rural patriarchs, traders, government authorities, appliance retailers – have used techniques to keep wages beyond migrants’ control. Paradoxically, similar techniques have, on occasion, been eagerly embraced by migrants themselves, who know that these resources will need to…
This article traces wages’ social productivity among farm workers on the Zimbabwean-South African border. In this migrant-labour setting, money’s form matters. Because currency objects are physically the same, it is difficult for workers to store them in an insecure environment,…