Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
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
India’s rate of female labour force participation dropped from 37% in 1990 to 28% in 2015. Can greater control over earned income incentivise women to work and influence gender norms? This article discusses findings from a large-scale experiment in collaboration…
This quantitative research by MSC, commissioned by BSR, analyzed the financial behavior of female garment workers in India as part of efforts to improve wage digitization processes and methodology.
This blog explains how the HERfinance Digital Wages Tech Learning Tool incorporates technology to make learning and training more engaging for workers. It also discusses how technology can play a role in bridging the digital gender divide and giving women…
The HERfinance Digital Wages program, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, works with global brands and their suppliers to help factories transition from cash salary payments to digital wages. This video follows three women during the process and…
This report presents the results of research conducted in Bangladesh by Microfinance Opportunities in collaboration with the Social Performance Task Force on the experiences of garment workers whose employers changed from paying them in cash to paying them digitally.
Wage digitization in the apparel industry is just in its infancy but is quickly gaining traction as more and more owners see the benefits with the model. However, in order for the adoption to increase, there are certain challenges to…
This action plan explores how ready-made garment factories and mobile financial service providers in Bangladesh can collaborate in digitizing the salary disbursement process for workers.
This slide deck discusses the impact of wage digitization and financial literacy in four factories in Bangladesh on the uptake of mobile money by neighbourhood residents and merchants, comparing baseline and endline surveys for an intervention led by Business for…