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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 …
Bangladesh's FSSAP (1994) provides conditional stipends and fee waivers to rural girls in secondary school. It supported 2 million+ girls annually, cutting …
Zambia's GEWEL programme (World Bank/GoZ) delivers livelihood packages to poor rural women and school stipends to vulnerable girls. By end-2024: 139,351 women …
Pakistan’s BISP pays quarterly grants to >6.1 million female household heads across 149 districts. Oxford Policy Management’s evaluation (2010–2017) found poverty fell …
Egypt's flagship cash-transfer scheme (2015-present): 4.67 million households enrolled, 75% of card holders women. Two IFPRI impact evaluations confirm 8.4% consumption rise, …
Since 2008, Digital Green has trained community mediators to produce and screen localised farming videos, reaching 2.3 million+ farmers across 10 countries …
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; …
Esoko delivers SMS/voice crop-price, weather and agronomic advice to smallholder farmers across Africa; independent research found Ghanaian users earned about 10% more …
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 …
LISTA, Fundación Capital's tablet financial-education app for Colombia's cash-transfer recipients, joined national policy in 2015. A randomised trial of 3,000 women found …
Congo's Lisungi safety-net project paid cash transfers and business grants directly to women, reaching 76,000 cash-transfer beneficiaries and 95,000 business-grant recipients (2015-2023) …
Bangladesh's flagship rural women's safety net, running since 1975. Each 24-month cycle supports ~750,000 women with 30 kg of fortified rice monthly …
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