Bridging the Gap: How Humanitarian Cash Transfers Can Facilitate Women’s Access to IDs
Bridging the Gap: How Humanitarian Cash Transfers Can Facilitate Women’s Access to IDs
This series shares how we can improve the design and delivery of digital cash transfers for low-income women. A woman’s world changes when payments are designed to suit her needs, digitized, and directed into her own account. Digital financial inclusion means that a woman can be an economic actor and has the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty and hunger. Once women are economically empowered, entire families and societies can flourish. The World Food Programme (WFP), the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have partnered to research and document ways to best enable digital financial inclusion and women’s economic empowerment through digital cash transfers. WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency and serves women in diverse communities. This experience — paired with CFI’s track record in research — means that we can inform practices on government-to-person payments and humanitarian cash transfers. See more about the work WFP and CFI are doing on women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment.