Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
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.
This webinar is the second in the Global Learning Exchange Series on Digital Payments, hosted by the International Labor Organization (ILO), International Finance Corporation (IFC), the IFC/ILO Better Work Programme, and the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance. The main objectives…
The objective of this manual is to provide some effective recommendations to Ready-Made Garments (RMG) factories that are seeking to digitize their wage disbursement system, based on the experiences of Sarathi’s work with two partner commercial banks in digitizing the…
This gamified tech learning tool developed with Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and QuizRR uses engaging films, quizzes, and animation to support workers to increase their financial health and benefit from digital wages. The learning tool includes 6 training modules,…
HERfinance Digital Wages Curriculum contains a collection of 90-minute training modules and materials on different financial topics designed for the factory setting to be used during the transition from cash to digital wages and to improve financial health.
Millions of garment workers and their families are severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in countries where with social protection systems are underdeveloped. Around the world, several governments are leading by example by implementing policy and regulatory changes that…
This report documents the rights situation of workers in Thailand’s fishing sector. It is based on surveys conducted from July to November 2019 and builds on research from 2018 that included 300 migrant workers in six provinces.
The webinar was organized on 9 July 2020 by the ILO Office in Viet Nam, the ILO’s Social Finance Programme and Women’s World Banking, with support from the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Speakers: Valérie Breda (Technical…
This post highlights the importance of awareness-raising and education around wage digitization to address workers’ concerns, based on a collaboration of Microfinance Opportunities and the Social Performance Task Force with garment workers in Bangladesh.
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…