IPA Hosts UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate Queen Máxima to Meet With Mobile Money Users in Tanzania

The Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Tanzania team was honored to host a field visit to Dar es Salaam’s Makumbusho Market during a recent visit to Tanzania by H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands in her capacity as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). The goal of UNSGSA Queen Máxima’s visit was to better understand how digital payments are being used in Tanzania, the costs associated with them, and their potential to help small businesses and other users.

In her role as UNSGSA, Queen Máxima spoke with entrepreneurs and mobile money agents at the market to better understand the impacts of mobile money on the growth of their businesses. She was accompanied by Veronica Kakengi, an IPA Tanzania research associate studying the costs of mobile money transactions.