Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
2020 put clothing supply chains under immense pressure, but it didn’t change our commitment at M&S to being transparent & collaborative in how we work in order to offer our customers ethically made & trusted value clothing.
This report discusses findings from human-centred design research around the use of cash-in and cash-out services conducted with 400 persons in Bangladesh, India, Northern Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tanzania, including about 250 women. It presents the key challenges women face,…
To understand the challenges in wage digitization in garments sector, in the midst of a global pandemic, the principal conveners of the Digital Wages Summit 2019 under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh strived to understand the challenges of…
This webinar, organized by Better Factories Cambodia, featured speakers from the World Bank, Microfinance Opportunities, and BSR.
HERproject has developed audio messages that provide information about using financial services and money management, which can be played on the public address (PA) system.
This news item highlights the trend of reverting back to cash wages among factories in the readymade garment industry in Bangladesh and presents possible explanation based on recent research.
This blog post describes the evolution of digital wage payments in factories spread across Bangladesh’s five main industrial areas (Chittagong, Dhaka City, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Savar). The findings are based on monthly phone interviews conducted between April and October 2020…
How do inexperienced consumers learn to use a new financial technology? This paper presents results from a field experiment that introduced payroll accounts in a population of largely unbanked factory workers in Bangladesh. In the experiment, workers in a treatment…
This post discusses the use of tech learning tools to support workers, especially women, transition to digital wages and help them to access, use, and ultimately benefit from their new payroll accounts.