Visa Innovation Grants 2013: Advancing Financial Inclusion with Electronic Payments
- 1. Visa Innovation Grants 2013 Advancing financial inclusion with electronic payments
- 2. 5 grants, $100k each to support innovations in e-payments IFRC Latin America & Caribbean Mercy Corps Indonesia Agribusiness Systems Intl. Ghana Freedom from Hunger Ecuador Pathfinder Intl. Kenya
- 3. Introducing a more efficient, secure mobile money transfer system for smallholder rice farmers in Ghana
- 4. on Tigo Cash payment mechanism 722 farmers trained 606 farmers registered & activated 12 agents recruited & trained photo credit: ASI
- 5. I am personally satisfied with the Tigo Cash payment system and have seen that the other farmers have embraced it as well. Im ensured timely payment of my sales and can safely move around with my money without any fear of getting robbed. I can also send money to my brother and sisters. - Eric Glatse, participating farmer photo credit: ASI
- 6. Developing a health credit card to improve access to health providers and health education for Ecuadors poorest
- 7. photo credit: FFH an initiative with the potential to impact 4,000 MFI clients & their ~14,000 family members
- 8. I feel supported and have peace of mind, because I know that when I have a medical emergency and have no cash, this will help me receive the medical attention I need for me and my family. - A survey respondent from the city of Guayaquil
- 9. Implementing a regional pre-paid debit card system to increase cost efficiency, speed & impact of humanitarian assistance in the Americas
- 10. Is cash transfer programming the future of humanitarian response? Advocacy, training and technical support on use of cash transfers has increased acceptance of using cash in place of or alongside in-kind assistance and increased acceptance of use of an e-payments system to deliver aid
- 11. Indeed it is no longer a question of whether we do cash-based programming, but how to make this a more systematic mechanism in our responses. - Scott DiPretoro, Disaster Management Delegate
- 12. Offering Indonesian smallholder farmers digital payment services to improve productivity & profits photo credit: Mercy Corps Indonesia
- 13. The AgriPay program is deploying an online banking system called AndaraLink to enable farmer cooperatives to deliver digital financial services to customers throughout Indonesia
- 14. 2,500 direct beneficiaries (30% women) & 12,500 indirect to date within 5 years, its anticipated that there will be at least 500 participating MFIs and 1.2 million indirect beneficiaries making more than 3 million transactions per year
- 15. Implementing a mobile incentive program to improve the health of mothers & children, while providing secure & reliable payments to community health workers photo credit: Bill Okaka
- 16. photo credit: Bill Okaka Use of Dimagi CommCare app to empower community health workers around the management of health information
- 17. ...resulting in increases in reporting, services offered, household visits made & increased transparency and quality of health services photo credit: Sala Lewis
- 18. since June 14, the community of mothers supported by the program has grown by 26% the # of vulnerable children receiving care has increased by 18% photo credit: Sala Lewis
- 19. Its an awesome experience seeing my clients be able to estimate their due dates. The visits are well pre-determined and follow-up has been made efficient. Im grateful for this great innovation in reporting. - Agnes Kazungu, CHW photo credit: Sala Lewis