2020 Digital Finance Bright Spot: Digital Payments in Liberia

Date published: Aug. 19, 2020

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USAID’s Digital Finance (DFS) Team’s vision is to build an inclusive and sustainable digital ecosystem in USAID partner countries. This vision is centered on the Agency’s priority to help countries progress along their Journey to Self-Reliance. The DFS team pursues this vision by focusing on two main objectives: (1) integrating DFS into USAID projects and programs, as an accelerator of development and humanitarian objectives, and (2) broadening sector- and program-specific efforts to foster inclusive enabling environments, private sector investment, and demand for inclusive financial services. The team works to achieve these objectives in a number of ways, the primary mechanism being engaging with USAID Missions around the world. As articulated in the team’s ecosystem theory of change, the DFS technical practice aims to identify and reach “tipping points” in the partner country markets through partnership and support to USAID Missions and other market stakeholders, leading to the scaling of digital finance solutions and models that support a country’s Journey to SelfReliance.

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