This video is about lessons learned from an exposure visit to South Africa organized by UNCDF MM4P programme for 18 Government officials from 5 countries: Benin, Malawi, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia.
The learning visit was about government-to-person (G2P) payments (Ex. pensions or other social benefits) as a gateway to modern payment instruments as well as other financial services for the un-banked and under-banked.

It is estimated that between two and three billion people still lack access to a broad range of financial products and services on a sustainable basis. The situation is particularly dire in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), where often more than 90% of the population is denied access to financial services from the formal financial system.

Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) is a programme launched by UNCDF in partnership with the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The MasterCard Foundation. MM4P provides support to branchless and mobile financial services in a select group of LDCs to demonstrate how the correct mix of financial, technical and policy support can build a robust branchless and mobile financial services ecosystem that reaches low income people in LDCs.
For more information, visit https://www.uncdf.org/mm4p or follow @UNCDFMM4P

UNCDF is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 least developed countries (LDCs). With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development. This last mile is where available resources for development are scarcest; where market failures are most pronounced; and where benefits from national growth tend to leave people excluded.