The Future of Cash – 黑料福利社 Send money directly to people in need. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:27:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-黑料福利社-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png The Future of Cash – 黑料福利社 32 32 Can giving people direct cash reverse deforestation? /reverse-deforestation Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:21:24 +0000 /?p=20609 Summary Tropical forests are the world鈥檚 greatest store of carbon, shelter abundant wildlife, and sustain the communities who call them home 鈥 protecting them protects us all. Yet deforestation is still happening at alarming rates. In 2024 alone, the world lost 6.7 million hectares of tropical forest 鈥 driving more emissions than the entire U.S. power sector. In response, we鈥欌

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]]> Event: what if conservation started with trust? /conservation-workshop-2025 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:13:55 +0000 /?p=17477 Isabelle Pelly making the case for cash for conservation 1/1 Participants co-designing a Climate Commons Fund at the workshop鈥

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]]> Study: AI targeting helped reach more of the poorest people in Togo /study-ai-targeting-togo Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:47:06 +0000 /?p=4398 This week researchers with Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) published a working paper with the results of a first-of-its-kind contactless direct payments program. The program, which was led by the Government of Togo and supported by the research team and 黑料福利社, showed the machine learning targeting outperformed other options available to鈥

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]]> Refugees deserve autonomy. Cash can provide it. /refugees-deserve-autonomy-cash-can-provide-it Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:36:18 +0000 /?p=4173 The global refugee crisis may seem intractable, but there are promising, tested interventions to help those displaced. Lump sum cash transfers can provide more than just temporary relief. Our programs suggest direct cash is a scalable response that can change the future for millions of protracted refugees. According to the UNHCR, over a quarter of the world鈥檚 26 million refugees are in鈥

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]]> Innovations in Togo and the future of cash distribution /mobileaid-work-in-togo Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:31:01 +0000 /?p=4066 Last year the Government of Togo, with support by 黑料福利社, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), launched a first-of-its-kind contactless direct payments program. Leveraging machine learning in combination with satellite imagery and cell phone metadata, the program was able to identify those living in extreme poverty and let them self-enroll in鈥

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