Resources

Articles and Case Studies

Switching From Cash to Digital Remittances, Research Insights From Wizall Money in Senegal

As part of a global effort to improve the access, usage, and financial resilience of migrants, UNCDF is collaborating with Wizall. In particular, the partnership aims to help accelerate the…

Assessment Guides

National Remittance Policy and Regulatory Framework

This guide is designed to provide guidance to policymakers, regulators, and development partners in assessing existing remittance policy and regulatory frameworks to identify enablers and inhibitors for the adoption and…

Assessment Guides

Regional Remittance Policy and Regulatory Framework

This guide is designed to help regional economic secretariats, policymakers, regulators and development partners with assessments of the existing remittance-related policy and regulatory frameworks. It is intended to help identify…

Reference Guides

Lessons Learned on Building an ITRS to Collect Remittance Data

This reference guide is a practical knowledge product that outlines the role an ITRS can play in improving current source data on remittances and enhancing their compilation techniques. Central banks…

Assessment Guides

National Remittance Data Collection Landscape

This guide aims to support regulators and development partners in their journeys to develop remittance reporting and analysis systems to obtain better data and insights on remittance transfers, which are…

Reference Guides

Design and Implement a Remittance Reporting and Analysis System

This guide aims to provide central banks and financial regulators, especially those in environments with limited financial and human resources, a path and tools to explore and define the following…

Country and Regional Diagnostics

Ethiopia Remittance Policy and Regulatory Diagnostic

This report was prepared by the UNCDF to support the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) ongoing development of a policy and regulatory framework for remittances. The strategic objective for NBE,…

Country and Regional Diagnostics

Inception Report: Regional Harmonization of Remittances in the IGAD region

This inception report on the harmonization of remittance policies project in the IGAD region highlights the background, including preliminary reviews of migration and remittance landscapes and specifies the project methodology,…

Country and Regional Diagnostics

Diagnostic Report: Regional Harmonization of Remittances in the IGAD region

At the request of the IGAD Secretariat, UNCDF has worked with the Secretariat and other public and private stakeholders to conduct a regional diagnostic assessment of existing remittance arrangements, laying…