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Baxnaano Digital & Financial Literacy for Women

Somalia · Mogadishu · See the Somalia profile

A train-the-trainer cascade - 21 WFP partner organisations to community mobilisers - delivered two rounds of mobile-money and digital-literacy training to over 300,000 women under Somalia's national Baxnaano safety net, which had reached over 4 million Somalis by December 2025.

4,000,000+
People supported by Baxnaano (by Dec 2025)
300,000+
Women reached by digital-literacy training
20 / 60 USD
Monthly transfer (standard / shock-scaled)
Baxnaano Digital & Financial Literacy for Women

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Federal Government of Somalia (Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs) / World Bank / WFP
Period
2019-present
Keywords
mobile money, financial literacy, social protection, humanitarian cash transfers

Context

Baxnaano is the Federal Government of Somalia's national unconditional cash-transfer programme (SNHCP), World Bank Board-approved 8 August 2019 with WFP handling mobile-money payment delivery; a dedicated digital- and financial-literacy component was built to help recipients, mostly women, manage mobile-money accounts.

Results

The programme had supported more than 4 million Somalis by a December 2025 World Bank feature. Twenty-one WFP cooperating partners trained trainers who trained community mobilisers, delivering two rounds of digital-literacy training reaching over 300,000 women (GSMA Mobile for Development).

Conclusions

A formal targeting evaluation of the SNHCP has been published, giving this practice more independent scrutiny than most humanitarian cash programmes, though it evaluates targeting accuracy rather than digital-literacy outcomes specifically.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

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