Resources

Country and Regional Diagnostics

Inception Report: Regional Harmonization of Remittances in the ECCAS region

This inception report on the harmonization of remittance policies project in the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) region highlights the background, including preliminary reviews of migration and remittance…

Flagship Reports

Case for Collection and Analysis of Transaction-level Remittance Data

This paper aims to provide central banks and financial regulators of countries that are net recipients of international remittances with a greater awareness of the value that transaction-level, supply-side data…

Exploratory Papers

Open Regulated Global Payments Inter-Network

This exploratory paper explores options for the future of international remittances: an open, regulated, global payments inter-network specifically designed for low-value international remittances that address the needs of migrants around…

Country and Regional Diagnostics

Ethiopia Payment and Financial market infrastructure Diagnostic

This report was prepared to address the National Bank of Ethiopia's (NBE) ongoing efforts to modernize its payments and financial markets infrastructures in line with the aforementioned objectives. The report…

Exploratory Papers

Mechanisms for Diaspora Finance

This report explores determinants for how to improve the investments of women and men migrants in their countries of origin, ranging from putting in place favourable policy and regulatory frameworks,…

Exploratory Papers

Diaspora Micro-Savings Products

The paper sets out to specify the scope, key functional and non-functional policies, marketing policies, financial policies, and partnership policies necessary for a micro-savings product (M-savings bonds) that could be…

Flagship Reports

A Model for the Systematic Capture, Management, and Analysis of Remittance Data by Central Banks

The way central banks think about remittances data is changing. As the world becomes more digital, there is an ever-growing need for detailed insights and automated and datadriven platforms from…

Articles and Case Studies

Integrating Remittance and Mobile Wallet Services: A Case Study of IME Pay in Nepal

IME Pay is Nepal’s top remittance company, and in 2017, with technical assistance from UNCDF, it developed a digital mobile wallet for domestic users to send and receive money. It…

Articles and Case Studies

Financial Inclusion of Blue-collar Migrants in the UAE: The Case of RAKBANK and Edenred

UNCDF’s collaboration with RAKBANK and Edenred aims to improve access and usage of the digital remittance channel through C3Pay—Edenred’s solution that enables migrants to receive their wages digitally. UNCDF technical…