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Digital wages and what it means for women
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.
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Garment workers’ financial behaviors during the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons learned from factories in Bangladesh, Egypt, and India
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…
Empowering women through direct digital wage payments
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…
How technology can take financial inclusion training further and deeper
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…
The impact of wage digitization: Neighborhood spillover effects from paying garment factory workers with mobile money
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…
5 essentials for bridging divides to guide a change process
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.
Equal pay through digital payments in Jordan
Jordan pledges to promote pay equity between women and men through digital
ILO lauds Jordan for protecting private school teacher wages through digital payments
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.
The digital payments opportunity: A conversation
A discussion with UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance’s Private Sector Digital Innovation Lead Marjolaine Chaintreau and BSR’s HERproject Associate Director Chhavi Ghuliani on digital wages.
Government mobile salary payments for teachers in Afghanistan
This brief presents a randomized evaluation in Afghanistan to study whether mobile salary payments improve learning by increasing teacher attendance and morale.