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Articles and Case Studies

Customizing digital remittances for blue-collar migrant workers in the UAE: Harnessing the power of customer archetypes

This second article on UNCDF's partnership with RAKBANK and Edenred focuses on demand-side research findings that draw on 355 phone surveys and 11 qualitative interviews with blue-collar migrant workers in…

South-South Exchange on Gender and Remittances: African Perspectives

This webinar—the first in a multi-part series under the Gender Colab in 2023—will focus on understanding the gendered experience within South-South migration and remittances as experienced within Africa. We will…

Articles and Case Studies

Expanding and Digitizing IME Pay’s Women and Migrant Customer Base in Nepal: Consumer Archetypes, Research Findings, and Pilot Projects

UNCDF’s second research insights article on IME Pay delves deep into the access to and usage of remittances in Nepal, exploring how remittances contribute to recipients’ improved financial inclusion and…

Flagship Reports

Migrant Money Annual Report 2022: Beyond sending money back home: remittances and migrant-centred sustainable development

UNCDF proposes a reimagining of migrant money in a way that unlocks its true power—as much more than just a way to move funds from point A to point B,…

Articles and Case Studies

Innovations to Improve Financial Inclusion of Migrant Women and Their Families: Lessons Learned from the Private Sector

Although women make up half of the world’s 281 million migrants and international remittance recipients, there is a distinct gender disparity between who accesses and uses digital remittances and other…

Migrant Money Notes

Designing Gender-Smart and Migrant-Centric Digital Remittances

Adopting a migrant-centric and gender-smart approach is about taking a long-term view of the context in which the remittance business operates and understanding how deliberate and upfront investments in reaching…

Articles and Case Studies

How Do Digital Remittances Contribute to Women’s Financial Health?

Results from a UNCDF survey make clear the need for more gender-smart and migrant-centric remittance products

Migrant Money Notes

Designing digital remittances for migrant domestic workers Pt.2

The low uptake of digital remittances, particularly among women migrants, could be linked to the growing disconnect between the products available to migrants and their real needs and behaviours as…

Migrant Money Notes

Designing digital remittances for migrant domestic workers Pt.1

The customer archetypes highlight mostly the customer needs and behaviours regarding the choice and adherence to remittances and financial services. Once they have been identified, RSPs can leverage customer archetypes…