Digital Inclusion

This brief highlights CARE Bangladesh’s Sanchay Sathi mobile app, developed to digitize Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in flood-prone char and haor regions. Designed with local language support and offline functionality, the app improves financial record-keeping, security, and access to mobile financial services. With over 2,000 groups supported, the initiative builds digital literacy and confidence among women and low-literacy users.

This brief outlines CARE Sierra Leone’s collaboration with MiKashBoks to digitize Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs). Through tailored app development, digital literacy training, and mobile money integration, the initiative improved financial management, safety, and autonomy for women. The pilot reached 81 groups, with plans to expand to 200, offering insights into inclusive digital transformation in low-connectivity contexts.

This study evaluates pricing strategies in CRS’s Private Service Provider (PSP) model across four African countries. It compares flat vs. proportional fees and standard vs. pro-poor training, offering insights into affordability, sustainability, and poverty outreach.

This study evaluates pricing strategies in CRS’s Private Service Provider (PSP) model across four African countries. It compares flat vs. proportional fees and standard vs. pro-poor training, offering insights into affordability, sustainability, and poverty outreach.

This three-part brief series explores how WhatsApp is being used across CARE programs to train VSLA members, collect real-time data, and build powerful communities of practice among grassroots trainers.

Insights from CARE’s digital pilot with 100 VSLA groups in Rwanda and Uganda reveal how social norms limit women’s digital access—and what it takes to design safer, more inclusive digitalization efforts.

This framework outlines how household dynamics, social norms, and structural inequalities shape women’s digital access—and offers a roadmap for gender-responsive digital inclusion.

This brief from Yale Inclusion Economics examines two policy levers in India—smartphone distribution and digital literacy training—and finds that while free phones offer a short-term boost, it's digital skills that create lasting impact for women’s connectivity, confidence, and well-being.