Promoting Workers’ Well-Being and Sustainable Enterprises Through Digital Wage Payments: Experiences From the Garment Industry in Jordan and Egypt

During this session, the speakers will discuss how responsible digital wage payments can contribute to workers' empowerment, financial inclusion, and sustainable enterprises, creating benefits for workers and employers and across the ecosystems. The participants will also hear about good practices in the garment industry in Jordan and Egypt to transitioning to responsible digital wages through the framework of the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments. The event is also a chance to learn more about achieving impact at scale through coordination partnerships, at national and regional level and across industries. Simultaneous translation will be available in English and Arabic.

Speakers:

• Tareq Abu Qaoud, Program Manager, Better Work Jordan
• Katherine Rickard, Private Sector Digital Payment Analyst, Better Than Cash Alliance
• Samer Bakeer, Digital Payments Specialist, Jordan - Better Than Cash Alliance
• Ella Moffat, HERfinance Manager, BSR
• Amany Shalaby, HERproject representative for Egypt; and Center for Development Services (CDS)
• Moderated by Valerie Breda, Technical expert, ILO’s Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work