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The shift from cash to using mobile money as a form of digital payments is an emerging development agenda item for many governments, funders, agencies, and global initiatives. This is because of its potential to improve the management of finances as…

Mobile money has become the leading payment method across many developing countries. Building on strengths such as wide distribution networks, customer reach, and trusted brands, governments are laying the groundwork for the digital economy to…

Article by Health Journalists Network Uganda A $USD 3 million project to assess the use of digital solutions to pay health workers involved in immunization campaigns has been launched.  The project by the Makerere University School of Public…

(Prof. Peter Waiswa, Project Director at the DHPI-R project launch said the project will study the effectiveness of digital innovations where they will partner with mobile money operators to establish among others the preferred mobile money…

Despite the value of vaccines in fighting diseases, and their wide availability, immunisation coverage in many Sub-Sahara Africa countries remains of suboptimal and inequitable coverage. Therefore, innovative strategies are needed to improve…

Externally sourced article - Andrew Stein - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Before I joined the foundation’s Polio team in March 2020—during the very week that U.S. pandemic lockdowns began in earnest—I spent several years working at the U.S…