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Cheque in: Increasing access to the formal financial system

This report seeks to identify the barriers to expanding access to and usage of formal financial services in Jamaica, with a view to remedying them.

Big potential for digitizing wage payments in Cambodia’s garment factories

The world is moving to digital payments. They are faster, more secure, more transparent and more efficient than cash. Digital payments can support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and empower women and youth. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift toward paying…

The impacts of digital financial services on women’s economic empowerment

This document summarizes the relationship between access to digital financial services and women’s economic empowerment. Topics include the mechanisms through which that access can help expand the breadth of women’s support networks, expedite transfers during periods of need, empower women…

Supporting the people at the heart of our supply chain: New research shows digital wages and supervisor skills training combined supported COVID resilience in our partner factories

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.

Wage Digitization Digest

The Wage Digitization Digest was a monthly desk-based intelligence report produced by Synergos from May 2020 – June 2021 that sourced from English-language media spanning a monthly timeframe specified in the digest. The report covered the impact on workers during…

How digital payment systems can boost Bangladesh’s push to meet the SDGs

Responsible digital wages in RMG sector of Bangladesh

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…