Development Agencies Using Biometrics to Reach Aid Recipients

Technology: helping people get both cash transfers and access to financial services (Relief Web)

Cash driven by truck to Northern Kenya would ordinarily mean leakage along the way. But the program, implemented by the Kenyan government, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, Oxfam, and Equity Bank uses biometrics, and smart cards to greatly reduce this risk and reach poor people more effectively and efficiently.