Mobile Money in Uganda: Use, Barriers and Opportunities
The Financial Inclusion Tracker Surveys Project
Download Document| Date Published | 2012 |
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| Primary Author | InterMedia |
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| Country | Uganda |
Abstract
In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's (BMGF) Financial Services for the Poor program commissioned InterMedia to design and implement a project to track the uptake, use and market potential of mobile money (m-money) services in Pakistan, Uganda and Tanzania. The findings from the Financial Inclusion Tracker Surveys Project (FITS), which includes annual panel-based household surveys conducted on a national scale, are intended to support the m-money activities of the BMGF, development organizations, mobile operators, regulators and others that play active roles in m-money ecosystems. The surveys also are designed to facilitate analyses of m-money's relationship to household financial behavior, particularly a household's ability to manage economic shocks.