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Humanitarian Payment Digitisation: Focus On Uganda’s Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement

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Friday 10 Nov 2017 | Case studies | Case study | Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Refugee crisis | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa | Uganda |

Our latest research report looks at ways that a number of humanitarian organisations have started to collaborate with the private sector, in particular, mobile network operators, and shares insights on the operational success factors ...

Wonderkid: Digitising water utilities in Kenya

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Friday 10 Nov 2017 | Case study | Digital Utilities | English | Kenya | Mobile access and use | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa | Water |

In 2015, Wonderkid was awarded a Mobile for Development (M4D) Utilities grant to develop and deploy a number of mobile tools for water utilities to improve the quality of their customer care and billing services. Wonderkid worked with ...

Start-ups and Mobile in Emerging Markets: Issue 1, Autumn 2017

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Saturday 4 Nov 2017 | Ecosystem Accelerator | Global | Innovation fund and grants | Report | Resource |

We have designed this new publication format to best capture the evolution of a fast-moving space, and with a wide range of stakeholders in mind, including: mobile operators and start-ups, which are at ...

2016 Mobile Money in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Tuesday 31 Oct 2017 | Building the financial ecosystem | English | Global and regional studies | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile access and use | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Presentation | Report | Resource | State of the industry and trends |

This report looks at the growth of mobile money in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2011 and 2016. Mobile money deployments rose at a faster rate in the region than globally, with all sub-regions enjoying consistent growth. ...

Opportunities in agricultural value chain digitisation: Learnings from Côte d’Ivoire

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Monday 30 Oct 2017 | AgriTech | Case studies | Case study | Cote d'Ivoire | English | French | Mobile access and use | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Resource |

Use of digital tools in the last mile of agricultural value chains allows agribusinesses to optimise procurement and business performance and promotes smallholder farmers’ financial inclusion, empowerment through transaction ...

Gham Power: Finding a replicable model for mobile-enabled micro-grids with NCell in Nepal

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Tuesday 24 Oct 2017 | Case study | Digital Utilities | Energy | English | Innovation fund and grants | Mobile access and use | Nepal | partnership-hub | Private-MNO | Resource | Rural network coverage | South Asia |

In May 2015, the GSMA Mobile for Development (M4D) Utilities programme awarded Gham Power a grant to expand the capacity of two micro-grids in Nepal, improving energy access for two rural villages and providing energy to two NCell ...

Country overview: Ghana

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Monday 23 Oct 2017 | English | Gender | Ghana | Mobile access and use | Report | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

GSMA Intelligence has today published the latest in its country overview series, taking a deep dive into the mobile market in Ghana. The report focuses on the mobile industry’s commitment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals ...

Taxation and mobile money in Tanzania

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Friday 20 Oct 2017 | Building the financial ecosystem | English | Global | Mobile access and use | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Policy and regulation | Presentation | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

This report examines the impact of taxation on mobile money in Tanzania, in light of the positive impacts of mobile money in the country. Whilst mobile money has increased financial inclusion, it is now being taxed in the same way as ...

Webinar – Opportunities in digitising agricultural value chains: Our learnings so far

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Friday 13 Oct 2017 | AgriTech | Global | Resource | Video | Webinar |

The GSMA mAgri programme hosted a webinar to present the opportunity in agricultural value chain digitisation in developing countries. The webinar focused on the agricultural last mile, specifically the web of relationships and ...

The impact of mobile on expecting mothers and their children

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Tuesday 10 Oct 2017 | English | Global | mHealth | Resource | Tanzania | Video |

Our GSMA Director General, Mats Granryd visits two innovative services in Tanzania, a birth registration programme for children under the age of five that has reached over one million children and Wazazi Nipendendi, a service for ...

The impact of mobile on maternal health in Tanzania

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Tuesday 10 Oct 2017 | English | Gender | Global | mHealth | Resource | Tanzania | Video |

Our GSMA Chief Regulatory Officer, John Giusti visits two innovative services in Tanzania, a birth registration programme for children under the age of five that has reached over one million children and Wazazi Nipendendi, a service ...

Person-to-government (P2G) payment digitisation: Lessons from Kenya

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Thursday 28 Sep 2017 | Building the financial ecosystem | Case study | Digital literacy | English | French | Interoperability | Kenya | MNOs' operational and strategic issues | Mobile access and use | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa |

This report looks deep into how mobile money has shaped the Kenyan P2G payments journey, based on research conducted by the Bankable Frontiers Associates (BFA), ...

Guidelines on International Remittances through Mobile Money

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Monday 18 Sep 2017 | Building the financial ecosystem | Digital literacy | English | Global | Guidelines | International remittances | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Resource |

This set of guidelines illustrates how the mobile money industry is collaborating to ensure international remittances are facilitated in a safe and secure manner, consistent with global standards and local monetary policies and ...

The Mobile Connectivity Index

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Monday 18 Sep 2017 | Connected Society | Infographic | Mobile access and use | Resource | Rural network coverage |

For the 2018 Mobile Connectivity Index report and infographic please click

Access to energy through mobile is changing lives

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Friday 15 Sep 2017 | Digital Utilities | English | Global | Resource | Tanzania | Video |

The mobile industry is playing a crucial role in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7: Universal energy access by 2030. New models to deliver energy to underserved consumers are emerging out of a convergence between mobile ...

mHealth Gender Webinar: Key principles and tips to reach women

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Wednesday 13 Sep 2017 | Digital literacy | English | Gender | Global | mHealth | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | Resource | Toolkit | Video | Webinar |

There is a large and growing gender gap in mobile usage as well as access. There are a number of different reasons for this mobile gap in women’s access to, and use, of mobile, which include affordability, social and cultural norms, ...

Opportunities in agricultural value chain digitisation: Learnings from Uganda

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Tuesday 12 Sep 2017 | AgriTech | English | Mobile access and use | Report | Resource | Sub-Saharan Africa | Uganda |

Mobile technology can drive efficiencies in the so-called agricultural last mile for agribusinesses and help smallholder farmers, who account for a majority (at least 70 percent) of the food production worldwide, achieve financial ...

Enabling Access to Mobile Services for the Forcibly Displaced

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Monday 11 Sep 2017 | Digital Identity | Global | Policy and regulation | Resource |

In this Policy Note, we focus on identity-related barriers preventing Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs), including refugees, from accessing mobile connectivity and mobile financial services (MFS). This Note offers several ...

Guatemala – Servicios financieros móviles (SFM): Diagnóstico regulatorio y estudio de mercado

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Thursday 31 Aug 2017 | Case studies | Guatemala | Latin America & the Caribbean | Mobile access and use | Mobile Money | Mobile Money Programme - filter | Policy and regulation | Research | Resource | Spanish |

Este documente examina la actual situación de inclusión financiera en Guatemala, haciendo énfasis en su marco regulatorio. El documente compara la situación de Guatemala con algunos de sus pares regionales y provee una serie de ...

Understanding the Identity Gender Gap

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Friday 18 Aug 2017 | Digital Identity | English | Gender | Report | Resource |

Official proof of identity is fundamental to an individual’s ability to enforce their rights and secure access to a wide range of vital services such as healthcare, education, mobile connectivity and social protections. For this ...