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Most practices in: Kenya (2) · Somalia (2) · Burundi (1)
Safaricom's M-Pesa turned basic phones into bank accounts across Kenya. A landmark Science study found it lifted 194,000 households out of poverty; …
Togo built a fully digital, mobile-money cash-transfer system using satellite imagery and phone data to target its poorest citizens during COVID-19, then …
A train-the-trainer cascade - 21 WFP partner organisations to community mobilisers - delivered two rounds of mobile-money and digital-literacy training to over …
Launched in 2010, Vodafone Fiji's M-PAiSA mobile wallet became the country's leading digital-payment channel, reaching 632,123 users (two-thirds of Fijians) by 2022. …
In a country with almost no formal banking sector, Hormuud Telecom's EVC Plus mobile-money service reached roughly three-quarters of Somali adults and …
Indonesia's government-run digital training marketplace reached 14.3 million low-income adults in all 34 provinces by 2022; 65% opened their first e-wallet or …
Farmerline's voice-first Mergdata platform delivers weather, market-price and agronomic advice plus digital credit to over 2 million smallholder farmers in 50 countries; …
Since 2020, Central African Republic's government has paid civil servants' salaries via mobile wallets instead of requiring travel to Bangui banks, reaching …
UN Women and the Orange Foundation built Women's Digital Centers at Peace Huts in rural Bong County, Liberia; 45 women graduated a …
El Salvador launched Chivo, a digital wallet with a $30 sign-up bonus, as a financial-inclusion tool for its majority-unbanked population when Bitcoin …
USAID and the Gates Foundation seeded Haiti's mobile-money market in 2010 with a $10m milestone-prize fund. Digicel's MonCash grew to 805,000 active …
Vodacom's M-Pesa mobile money platform, revitalised through a 2018–2022 IFC partnership that tripled active users from 1.9 to 6 million, now serves …
After Econet Wireless Burundi launched its EcoCash mobile wallet, mobile money overtook bank accounts as Burundians' main financial channel in a country …
Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and PayNet's National Fraud Portal (April 2024) links 53 institutions via FNA graph analytics to trace stolen funds …
During Niger's 2010 food crisis, Concern Worldwide ran a randomized trial paying cash transfers via mobile money ('Zap') against manual cash and …
Kenya's M-Pesa, launched 2007, lifted an est. 194,000 households (2% of Kenyan households) out of poverty by 2014, with female-headed households gaining …
A Hive Colab/UNCDF/NITA-U toolkit delivered by 300 trained facilitators in five local languages reached 55,000 women, youth and refugees across five Ugandan …
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