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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 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.
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…
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 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…
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…
This post describes five good practices to facilitate collective change, based on a partnership between Synergos and leading fashion brands to increase wage digitization in Bangladesh’s garment manufacturing sector.
Jordan pledges to promote pay equity between women and men through digital
The National Committee for Pay Equity and the Stand-up with Teachers Campaign had lobbied for the move since late 2017 with the support of the ILO.