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Digital Financial Services | September 10, 2024 - 2 mins read

Digital payments for vaccine campaigns: an executive summary

Prompt, regular, and accurate payments promise big improvements in health campaigns, such as vaccines, that rely on a large...

By Benjamin Mazzotta PhD
Digital Financial Services | September 10, 2024 - 4 mins read

How digital payments affect key institutions in vaccine campaigns: a stakeholder analysis

In this final blog post, we use scenario analysis to identify the cost drivers for administering payments to workers...

By Benjamin Mazzotta PhD
Digital Financial Services | September 10, 2024 - 3 mins read

Quantifying the benefits of a transition to digital payments for frontline healthcare workers

The benefits of digital payments vis-à-vis cash are well known: timely disbursement, payment confirmations, and risk controls for both...

By Benjamin Mazzotta PhD
Digital Financial Services | September 10, 2024 - 4 mins read

Visualizing what it takes to generate a payment in the healthcare sector: the payment use case map

We introduce the research technique of a payment use case map to investigate the benefits of digital payments for...

By Benjamin Mazzotta PhD
Climate Action, Generative AI | August 15, 2024 - 2 mins read

Bridging the digital divide: How Vua is bringing GenAI and SMS to small-scale fishers

Startups are increasingly using Generative AI (GenAI) to streamline their operations and reach more customers. This is becoming more...

By Carmen Merab
Inclusive Jobtech | July 29, 2024 - 3 mins read

[Press release] Jobtech Alliance Welcomes Eight New Platforms to Its Ecosystem

Nairobi, Kenya, July 29, 2024 – The Jobtech Alliance steered by Mercy Corps and BFA Global has announced its second...

By Carmen Merab
Inclusive Jobtech | July 16, 2024 - 1 min read

A Request for Jobs: the Jobtech Alliance’s new Investment Thesis

At the Jobtech Alliance, we frequently explore the challenging ideas and jobtech categories we want more African innovators to...

By Carmen Merab
Climate Action | July 1, 2024 - 4 mins read

[Press Release] Ten African Startups Selected to Receive Funding to Develop Blue and Green Economy Solutions

Nairobi, Kenya, July 1st, 2024 – BFA Global, FSD Africa, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)...

By Carmen Merab
Climate Action | May 30, 2024 - 3 mins read

Founders in the Making: Insider Insights by Tatiana Wandar

In this spotlight Q&A, we’re excited to feature the experiences and insights of a current Africa Blue Wave /...

By Carmen Merab