Digital Cash Assistance: From Tech to Transformative Aid Policy
Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to redistribute wealth to the thousands of people affected by natural disasters, conflicts, and other crises — with the touch of a button? Blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) have been blazing trails in the way we access, tokenize, send and receive money globally.
With the Future Proof Aid Policy report we break it all down for you in a deep dive on the inefficiencies in traditional aid, humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA), and why a transition to Digital Cash Assistance (DCA) is time critical to get more bang out of the billions spent every year to help people in need. The report puts forward overall policy guidance on deploying this innovative programming in emerging economies.
To add a multitude of perspectives we invited various cash experts, development practitioners, and leading technologists to contribute their own insights and expertise.
Read the report Executive Summary (see excerpt below)
From “Future Proof Aid Policy, Executive Summary”, Celo Foundation & Emerging Impact (2021)
Why should you care?
Here is the fact:
US$145 billion in humanitarian aid was delivered from 2015 to 2020, but of that, less than 5% went directly to local communities and organisations?
In 2021 alone, with the impact of Covid-19 pandemic, more than 235 million people globally are expected to require additional US$35 billion in aid.
Thanks to the help of solutions developers, local communities, humanitarian practitioners, and the Celo Foundation among others, this area of innovation is growing, with a massive impact on people’s lives. The blockchain transformation is already making aid delivery cheaper, faster, more transparent, more direct, and more effective.
Future-Proof Aid Policy
With this series of research and learning resources Emerging Impact and Celo Foundation are bringing humanitarian and technology experts together to further explore how blockchain-powered digital cash can transform aid to help us all give better, and provide more impact to communities on the ground.
Join our special webinars to hear from experts at Celo and Emerging Impact and hear more about game-changing use cases in countries like Haiti, Kenya, Ecuador, Jordan, the Pacific Islands, and beyond.
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Register here for our Future-Proof Aid Policy webinars on June 17th at 6AM UCT and/or June 24th at 3PM UCT
