Ethical Considerations When Using Call Detail Records for Better Targeting
While countries adopted various COVID-19 response approaches, the need for short- and long-term Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) quickly became clear at an unprecedented...
What is the Food Security Impact of COVID-19 in African Countries?
The novel coronavirus pandemic has an immense impact on healthcare across the African continent. South Africa in particular has become a viral hot spot, with...
Do You Provide Technical Assistance? Then You Just Got Competition: Mobile Money
In reading the GiveDirectly study on cash transfers, Chris Blattman’s analysis, and the background research on both mobile money and cash transfers, I’ve...
Women Gain When You Give Poor People Cash via Mobile Money
That’s the basic question asked by GiveDirectly in their overall business model to give unconditional cash transfers to poor Kenyans via M-Pesa. Based on a...
7 Considerations for Mobile Money Cash Grants to Change Development
Let us start with the classic (borderline cliché) development proverb: if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if he is taught how to fish, he will...
Learn How Mobile Money Cash Grants are the Future of Development
A huge aspect of international development is capacity building – training and supporting people to change their behaviour and improve their skills in ways...