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Contact us: digitalwages@ilo.org
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…
Endorsed by G20 finance ministers, this report outlines 10 policy options to enable G20 members and other governments to rapidly work towards digital financial inclusion of all women. These will not only drive women’s greater economic participation but will also…
This post highlights the importance of considering and addressing the barriers and challenges that prevent women from enjoying the full benefits of wage digitization.
This blog post presents findings from interviews conducted over the phone with a pool of 894 workers employed in factories spread across the five main industrial areas of Bangladesh (Chittagong, Dhaka City, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Savar) who reported being paid…
This brief describes the results of a joint IFC and Bangladesh Bank initiative that developed the business case for electronic wage payments in Bangladesh’s garment sector to increase women’s financial inclusion.
This report evidences HERfinance Digital Wages Programme’s benefits for factories and workers via increased efficiency, financial inclusion, and women’s economic empowerment. It uses two data sources: HERfinance Digital Wages survey data collected from 64 factories through 4,076 baseline surveys and…
This blog post considers the importance of wage digitization for women’s financial inclusion and raises questions for discussion at BRAC’s Frugal Innovation Forum.
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