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!important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Fixed Store\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547817897872{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FFixed-store.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547817915317{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469238208{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1541408026593{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40214\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Roving.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1547817974591{margin-bottom: 14px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Roving\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547817993419{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FRoving.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547818002024{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469238208{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1546259314686{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40215\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/supply-chain.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1547818101245{margin-bottom: 14px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Supply Chain\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547818093865{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2Fsupply-chain.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547818107929{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1546410807878{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" padding_top=\"30\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"Playbook\" font_container=\"tag:h3|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23d11e3c|line_height:30px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1544941975604{margin-left: -15px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\" el_class=\"tsubpage-title\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\" el_class=\"lnContainer\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1544178772383{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"39593\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/CC-playbook.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1544942127450{margin-bottom: 14px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Reaching the last mile: Customer centricity for fintechs\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1544942320448{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F12%2FCC-playbook.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Authors: </strong>\r\nJayshree Venkatesan, Varinder Gambhir,\r\nSunanda Singhal and Myla Swallow\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1544942223287{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"December, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1544178072680{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" padding_top=\"30\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"Studies\" font_container=\"tag:h3|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23d11e3c|line_height:30px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"tsubpage-title\" css=\".vc_custom_1540574080475{margin-left: -15px !important;}\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\" el_class=\"lnContainer\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1521590392480{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"39966\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HBB-Report-14-Jan-2019.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1547533650379{margin-bottom: 14px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Decoding Home-Based Businesses :\r\nAn Analysis of Digital Payment Behaviors of Home-Based Business Owners in Jaipur\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560766141{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FHBB-Report-14-Jan-2019.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Principal Investigators : </strong>\r\nBadal Malick and Rajesh Shukla\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547466061490{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Co-Investigators : </strong>\r\nPratibha Joshi and Megha Shree\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547466099608{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Supporting Research Team : </strong>\r\nAnshuman Mehta, Ankur Gautam and Harsh Nisar\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547466172388{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547466185494{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1538412153615{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"27417\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/catalyst_ethnography_report.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1538578800401{margin-bottom: 14px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Is Cash the King or do Digital Payment Solutions Lack Adequate Engagement of Potential Users?\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538578812913{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F10%2Fcatalyst_ethnography_report.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Principal Investigators:</strong>\r\nShilpa Pandit\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538548167470{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Researchers:</strong>\r\nPreethi Kannan, Ankur Gautam, Vedika Inamdar, Praveen\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538151959106{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\nDeepti Kc\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538584498785{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"September, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538143685902{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1538151517318{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"27343\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Bhatta-Basti-Report.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1538143384753{margin-bottom: 14px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Limitless Opportunities, Limiting Constraints: Livelihoods, Money Management Patterns, and Digital Readiness of\r\nLow-income Households in an Urban Slum Area\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538551365924{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F09%2FBhatta-Basti-Report.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"September, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538143685902{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1527153512391{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"14385\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1532461737551{margin-bottom: 14px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Mapping the Merchant\'s Mind\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538548045935{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:http%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F07%2FPrice-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf|||\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Principal Investigators:</strong>\r\nBadal Malick and Rajesh Shukla\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538548187119{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Co-investigators:</strong>\r\nMegha Shree and Vaisnavi Gnanasekaran\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538548198166{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"May, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1527153280067{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\" el_class=\"lnContainer\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1521590392480{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"12922\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Building-Hooks-and-Ladders-Book.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1532461446263{margin-bottom: 14px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Building Hooks and Ladders:\r\nA Case for Integrating Digital Payments and Lending to Small Merchants\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1538548093287{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:http%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F07%2FBuilding-Hooks-and-Ladders-Book.pdf|||\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Investigators:</strong>\r\nJohn Arun, Ankur Gautam, IFMR LEAD\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1532461477104{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"March, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1523016048110{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1538412153615{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1538151517318{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1527153512391{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" padding_top=\"30\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical reports\" font_container=\"tag:h3|font_size:22px|text_align:left|color:%23d11e3c|line_height:30px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1540570135167{margin-left: -15px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\" el_class=\"tsubpage-title\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\" el_class=\"lnContainer\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1544178772383{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40115\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BB-Tech-Report.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729660331{margin-bottom: 14px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digitizing Low-Income Clusters in An Urban Slum\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729771859{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FBB-Tech-Report.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\nDeepti KC, Nithya Srinivasan and\r\nArbind Vishwakarma\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729798458{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469238208{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1541407673371{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40057\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Technical-Report.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560112007{margin-bottom: 14px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digitising Payments for Government Services - The Case Emitras\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560122128{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FTechnical-Report.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\nTunisha Kapoor, Preethi Rao\r\nand Ankur Gautam\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560129502{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469238208{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1541408026593{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40069\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CH-Tech-Report.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560786275{margin-bottom: 14px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Credit as a Hook : Building Digital Footprints for Credit Access\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560800715{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FCH-Tech-Report.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\nShubhranka Mondal and John Victor Arun Kumar\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469225403{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469238208{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1546259314686{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40068\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Dairy-Report.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560600505{margin-bottom: 14px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digitizing Payments\r\nin the Dairy Supply Chain\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560817896{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FDairy-Report.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\nTunisha Kapoor, Preethi Rao and Ankur Gautam\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1546408485546{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1546410807878{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\" el_class=\"lnContainer\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729948710{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"39852\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" img_link_target=\"_blank\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Technical-Report.pdf\" css=\".vc_custom_1546259539215{margin-bottom: 14px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Catalyst\'s Incubator Program\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23161615|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1546259554759{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F12%2FTechnical-Report.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\nGaurav Singhal, Kanika Joshi, Raghu Raman,\r\nJohn Victor Arun Kumar\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1546259101151{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"December, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1544178072680{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1547560316425{margin-bottom: 10px 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google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547530140813{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F11%2Ftechnical-reports-v4.pdf||target:%20_blank|\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"<strong>Technical Writer: </strong>\r\nPreethi Rao and Gaurav Singhal\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1541401270934{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading 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!important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1519195533112{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40121\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DFC-Learning-note.pdf\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Using behavioral insights to improve digital financial capability (DFC) of customers\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FDFC-Learning-note.pdf|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547734936845{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical Writers : Varinder Kaur Gambhir, Sunil Gurubhagwatla, Siddharth Dhankar, Nithya Srinivasan\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547744180750{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547728753761{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1519195448838{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40108\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/markers-trust-recreating-digital-ecosystems-women-low-income-clusters/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Markers of Trust: Recreating Digital Ecosystems for Women in Low-Income Clusters\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fmarkers-trust-recreating-digital-ecosystems-women-low-income-clusters%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547728692611{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Shilpa Pandit\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547728730882{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547728753761{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1523434485038{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40111\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Learnin-by-doing-Learning-Note.pdf\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Implementing Innovation Through An Ecosystem ``Learning and Solving by Doing`` Approach\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FLearnin-by-doing-Learning-Note.pdf|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729102121{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Gaurav Singhal and Sharon Buteau\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729123032{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729136442{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1519195482884{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40042\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/using-comic-books-increase-digital-financial-capabilities-low-income-clusters/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Using Comic Books to Increase Digital Financial Capabilities in Low-Income Clusters\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fusing-comic-books-increase-digital-financial-capabilities-low-income-clusters%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547616877305{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Nithya Srinivasan\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469646057{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"December, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469653452{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1523434422317{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"39803\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/strengthening-potential-digital-finance-women-bhatta-basti/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Strengthening the potential of digital finance for women in bhatta basti\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fstrengthening-potential-digital-finance-women-bhatta-basti%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1545566539870{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Deepti KC\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1545895354180{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"December, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1545566609711{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1519195345948{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"39450\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/digital-lending-small-merchants-missing-road-last-mile/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digital lending for small merchants: the missing road to the last mile\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fdigital-lending-small-merchants-missing-road-last-mile%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1542722764189{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: John Arun and Shubhranka Mondal\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1542722803475{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"November, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1542723317626{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1541408971675{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #dd3333 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"38891\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/segmenting-low-income-cluster-digital-payment-solutions/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Segmenting low-income cluster for digital payment solutions\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fsegmenting-low-income-cluster-digital-payment-solutions%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1541403176185{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writer : Deepti Kc\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547744194418{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"October, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1541402650943{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1537956108157{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #dd3333 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"26507\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/digitizing-dairy-b2b-supply-chain/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digitizing Dairy B2B Supply Chain\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fdigitizing-dairy-b2b-supply-chain%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1537956128919{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Tunisha Kapoor and Preethi Rao\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1537955384156{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"September, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1537523993141{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1537954927172{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #dd3333 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"26362\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/leveragin-gst-for-digital-payments/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Leveraging GST for digital payments\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fleveragin-gst-for-digital-payments%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1537523945584{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Mandar Kagade, Raghav Katyal, Janak Priyani, and Diksha Singh\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1537523972346{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"September, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1537523993141{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1537524096448{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"23078\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/merchant-perspectives-bhim-experience/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Merchant perspectives on the BHIM experience\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:http%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fmerchant-perspectives-bhim-experience%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1530709959894{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Mandar Kagade, Janak Priyani, Diksha Singh and Raghav Katyal.\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1530785894602{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"July 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" 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onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"How digitally ready are the urban ultra-poor?\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:http%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fhow-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1519196000899{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Mridulya Narasimhan &amp; Nidhi Punmia\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" 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(40240, 23, '2019-01-21 07:07:46', '2019-01-21 07:07:46', '[vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" type=\"image\" enable_parallax=\"false\" parallax_speed=\"0.4\" padding_top=\"110\" padding_bottom=\"0\" bg_image=\"40136\"][vc_column][kleo_gap size=\"100px\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Using behavioral insights to improve digital financial capability (DFC) of customers: Key learnings from our experiments across different ecosystems\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:48px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:54px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap size=\"140px\"][kleo_gap size=\"50px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" padding_bottom=\"0\"][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner width=\"5/12\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531456733{padding-right: 0px !important;}\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"][addtoany][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531444909{padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][kleo_button title=\"Print this page\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"custom\" position=\"left\" size=\"lg\" special=\"no\" border=\"no\" icon=\"print\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"grey-icon\" custom_text=\"#d11e3c\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"About CATALYST\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]CATALYST is a user-centric ‘digital financial inclusion innovation platform’ for the underserved last mile. The initiative is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the mSTAR Program, through funding provided to FHI 360. Housed within the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (IFMR LEAD), the initiative aims to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India.CATALYST identifies, develops and validates solution frameworks and business models in collaboration with facilitating government agencies and participating industry solution providers to responsibly transition small business ecosystems (i.e., merchants, consumers, suppliers) from an inefficient cash economy to digital payment platforms, and further onto broader digital finance solutions. CATALYST has also launched a new business incubator, ‘Fintech for the Last Mile,’ to promote entrepreneurs focused on developing innovative digital finance solutions for traditionally underserved segments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"Acknowledgements\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>The authors thank and acknowledge the support of Arbind Vishwakarma,</div>\r\n<div>Deepti KC, Tunisha Kapoor and John Arun for the insights from their respective projects. Thanks also to Harsh Pandey (FHI 360), Jayshree Venkatesan, Ankur Gautam and Preethi Rao for editorial reviews and feedback, and to Badal Malick and Sharon Buteau for their consistent support and encouragement.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"Executive Summary\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n\r\nEvidence suggests that the use of digital financial services can offer benefits such as increased financial transparency, accountability and inclusion. ¹For customers to adopt these solutions, however, it is very important that they see value in these solutions and have the ability and willingness to change their existing habit. This paper elaborates our learnings from experiments deployed by us to improve the uptake of digital payments and promote digital financial inclusion of the population. Some key insights from our field work and interactions with stakeholders include:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Both the end-consumers and the merchants aren’t proactively looking for digital financial solutions, so the hook to adopt these will have to be very strong. It must be a solution that meets a specific personal need for it to be relevant.</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital financial services are seen as a ‘double-edged sword’ - While majority agree that digital payments and services are convenient and helpful, there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances and lack of confidence in their data being kept private. It is very important for the solutions, communication channels and influencers to be trust-worthy to drive adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Another aspect that is critical to build customers’ trust is seamless alignment of solutions with emerging technologies. Currently, there are many teething problems with some of the nascent technologies that use UPI or AEPS. If solution providers cannot fix these issues, these liabilities should be clearly defined and communicated to the customers – so that there is no lack of trust later.</li>\r\n 	<li>Adoption of digital financial services is directly proportional to a customer’s familiarity with technology and his/her state of financial inclusion. Taking a low-income individuals on the route to digital financial inclusion, who may or may not have bank accounts to begin with, is a long-drawn process requiring sustained interventions. It is therefore important to first identify the early adopters - example someone who is actively banking and has a smartphone -as they will be more open to change. Once onboarded, they can be the change-agents in networks where they are trusted.</li>\r\n 	<li>Merchants are ready and willing to offer any digital payment solution that the consumers ask for, but the push must be driven by consumers’ demand for it so that it improves their business. Therefore, the initial capability focus for the solution providers should be end-consumers as it is their interest and intent that will decide the merchants’ interest.</li>\r\n 	<li>Taking financial decisions is, in general, perceived to be a complex task – especially by women where they pass on the task to men of the household. There could be various societal norms at play here, but it is very important to take out the complexity from matters related to money. Simple digital solutions can help boost confidence of women and others who might be finding financial decisions complex, in general, and address this need for simplicity in finance.</li>\r\n 	<li>Once people convert to digital payments, they sustain this behavior easily. It requires substantial time and effort to communicate benefits and handhold a consumer to onboard a new digital payments platform. However, once they are onboarded and have personally experienced the convenience of digital payment solutions, people continue to use them.</li>\r\n 	<li>Integrated digital financial inclusion programs should focus on the entire cycle from awareness to sustained change with a specific solution at every step.</li>\r\n 	<li>Finally, to communicate various value propositions and build digital financial capabilities of customers, CATALYST used different channels to reach out to them. We found that a mix of social media and interpersonal channels is important to reach different profiles of people (youth, working men, self-employed women, housewives) who would be at different stages of the adoption curve. For merchants, since they have little active interest in digital payments currently, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<a href=\"http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution\">http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution</a>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1: The adoption continuum and learnings</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40152\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#373b3c\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40100\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"2. What is digital financial capability and why is it important?\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>Financial capability is defined as ‘the combination of knowledge,</div>\r\n<div>skills, attitudes, and behaviors a person needs to make sound financial decisions. ³We defined digital financial capability as the ability and willingness of the customers to use digital financial services. The key levers that we tried to impact through our work were awareness and knowledge of various options available, how to use the service, attitude towards the service (i.e. willingness), using the service and finally repeated use (sustained behavior and advocacy).</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 2: Levers of DFC</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40160\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>In isolation, while digital financial literacy shifts the responsibility onto consumers to decide for themselves and to act on the available options, DFC handholds consumers to the last mile by building their capacity to act as well as providing clear opportunities to do so. With the DFC approach, our intent was to convert people’s knowledge into action.  It is not just about making them aware; it is about filling the huge gap between awareness and action by providing specific end-to-end solutions throughout the adoption journey.</div>\r\n<div>To change the sticky behavior of using cash, people do not just need to be educated about alternative solutions but also need clear answers to ‘why they should change’ and ‘how they should change,’ i.e., they need to have a value proposition or a nudge that will propel them to drop a habit. While ‘why’ will drive their willingness, the ‘how’ will increase their ability to transact.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<a href=\"http://³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf\">³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf</a>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40101\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"3. Ecosystems where we deployed digital financial capability experiments\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]We first identified the ecosystems wherein digitization could solve the existing problems by bringing about behavior change.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dairy: </strong> A small-value daily purchase such as milk – which involves a number of stakeholders in the supply chain to finally bring milk to the end-consumer – presented a great opportunity for large-scale behavior change. There were four key players we could influence for behavior change across the dairy supply chain: Jaipur Dairy (supplying dairy products under the brand name Saras); dairy distributors; retailers at the booths; and end-consumers. Jaipur Dairy was already accepting payments digitally from distributors, allowing settlement only through bank transfers or checks. This meant that the distributor had to digitize the cash that s/he collected from the retailer; her/his cash collection agent would collect cash from all the retailers and then the distributor would visit banks multiple times to deposit it. There was also the problem of loose change during point-of-sales transactions and the risk of theft from cash collection agents. Digitization of payments along this supply chain from Jaipur Dairy to the end-consumer could resolve all these problems. Details of our work in the dairy ecosystem are presented in Annex 1b.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMitra: </strong> eMitra is an e-governance platform offered by the Government of Rajasthan that provides 387 government to customer (G2C) and customer to business (C2B) services such as electricity or water bill payments to its citizens. Rajasthan has over 52,000 physical eMitra centers across the state of which approximately 5,000 operate in Jaipur. Any eMitra entrepreneur must deposit an upfront amount of INR 1 lakh with the government to start providing these services to customers. Given that 98 percent of these transactions are made in cash by end-consumers means that the eMitra entrepreneurs face the burden of high initial working capital and loss of business when they are busy with bank visits to digitize their cash. Once we identified these challenges, we wanted to create an enabling environment for end-consumers to pay digitally for eMitra services. Details of our work in the eMitra ecosystem are presented in Annex 1c.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bhatta Basti: </strong> In this migrant slum cluster, to understand the target population and assess their financial needs, CATALYST conducted a survey with randomly selected 442 low-income households in August 2017.⁴ The study indicated useful statistics such as the majority of the bank account holders in Bhatta Basti were male heads of the family; only about 39 percent of the primary earners had any kind of savings; people largely relied on cash-based payments; and a mere 6 percent of the households had any information on digital payments. This highlighted the need for a step-wise approach to first educate consumers about the basic tenets of account opening, help open accounts for use, and then introduce them to the concept of digital financial payments and solutions. Details of our work in the Bhatta Basti ecosystem are presented in Annex 1a.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 3: Key demographics from Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40168\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For each of these ecosystems, we first mapped the journeys of our customers from awareness to adoption and identified triggers and barriers to then design value propositions and channels to influence their behavior.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For more on the survey, check  <a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/</a></div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]Catalyst conducted a survey⁵ in Jaipur that revealed that over two-fifths of the merchants surveyed had tried some form of digital payments. However, only a third reported sustained use, a fraction of the overall volumes. The most popular payment service was closed loop wallets, chosen by nearly three-fourths of those surveyed. A little less than a third used cards, and about 25 percent used internet banking. Only 8 percent of overall customer transactions by value were executed digitally. Merchants stated a low customer demand as the biggest reason for not using digital payment solutions, followed by a lack of awareness and the fear of being cheated in that order.⁶[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<div>These survey findings were in line with common knowledge in this domain that</div>\r\n<div>barriers to adoption of digital financial services are in abundance, more so among the poor in India. Use of cash for payments is a particularly sticky habit, one that has witnessed resurgence after seeing a slight dip in the demonetization aftermath. Several situational and behavioral factors play a role here. Through extensive desk research and our work across various use-cases, we identified the following key barriers to adoption of digital financial services -</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>habit of using cash and inertia towards non-cash methods</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of compelling value propositions to change</li>\r\n 	<li>limited access to mobile phones and the internet coupled with infrastructural barriers such as poor network connectivity and irregular electricity</li>\r\n 	<li>low levels of digital literacy and perceived complexity of using digital platforms</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of trust in digital services, with fears of fraud and hidden charges;</li>\r\n 	<li>limited acceptance of digital infrastructure by local merchants is both an access and usage barrier. This is often common with new consumers, especially when the interface is cumbersome, or the transaction experience is not smooth owing to poor connectivity or confusing instructions. During the initial trial phase, trust placed in the platform is quickly revoked and the customer reverts to cash.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Active field work and continuous monitoring of data enabled identification of key focus areas, and factors that were working and non working in improving DFC in each of the ecosystems. For illustrative purposes, we have listed in Table 1 the key triggers and barriers at every step of the journey that led to the DFC nudges in Bhatta Basti. More details of our work in Bhatta Basti can be found in Annex 1a.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]⁵See: Mapping the Merchant’s Mind: An analysis of digital payments behaviors by fixed store merchants in Jaipur, Malick, Badal and Rajesh Shukla, PRICE-Catalyst report 2018 &lt;<a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf</a>&gt;⁶ Price-CATALYST report 2018, Malick, B. and R. Shukla, ibid.\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 1: Illustrative box on triggers and barriers identified for digital financial inclusion journey in Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n\r\n<style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Bank Accounts)</td>\r\n<td>Value propositions of benefits and advantages of savings and banking</td>\r\n<td>Little awareness about benefits of savings and bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of bank accounts</td>\r\n<td>Improved awareness and financial capability - how to use financial sources, whom to trust and what information must not be shared</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust - refusal to open bank accounts due to prior experience with the cases of fraud</li>\r\n 	<li>Documentation issues - Documents unavailable in case of migrant members, problems associated with Aadhaar card</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active Banking</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Connecting financial inclusion to education inclusion, health inclusion etc. For example. many families wanted to avail of scholarships for their children upon opening bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Youth /educated member in the family were often consulted for advice on financial matters. Thus, increased efficacy towards digital financial capability among youth would have a positive influence</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Lack of clear value proposition for financial inclusion</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust, particularly amongst women in Bhatta Basti, about the safety of money in bank accounts</li>\r\n 	<li>Low confidence in safekeeping of debit cards and making digital payments</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Digital Payments)</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Awareness about usage and how to keep accounts secure,</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentive</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most did not have smartphones</li>\r\n 	<li>Little awareness, exposure or familiarity with banking and mobile payment operations/ instruments and its perceived complexity</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust in safety associated with digital transactions</li>\r\n 	<li>No interest or motivation in using non-cash modes of payment</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Aspirational imagery of being with the times (mostly youth)</li>\r\n 	<li>Convenience (mostly working men)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network issues - lack of access to internet in many parts of Bhatta Basti</li>\r\n 	<li>Time and distance factor for the process of on-boarding</li>\r\n 	<li>Varied technical glitches and problems</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active usage of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>Adoption of digital payment solutions such as AEPS, UPI etc. by merchants, e-mitras and vendors in Bhatta Basti</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of reliable and consistent network</li>\r\n 	<li>No clear benefit seen over cash payments</li>\r\n 	<li>Absence of regular and trusted merchants and vendors on these platforms</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"5. Designing behavioral nudges and channels to communicate\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Once the gaps and opportunities within each user segment were identified, our efforts were directed towards answering two critical questions: where should the digital financial solutions operate (in the user journey) and what is the value gap that they will address? This is the step at which targeted solutions to address the gaps and the relevant behavioral nudges emerged.</div>\r\n<div>While designing the DFC nudges and choosing various channels for its delivery, we ensured a mix of value propositions for both the merchants as well as the end-consumers – that addressed various stages of adoption. The decision on the channels and the value propositions we communicated were based on –</div>\r\n<div><strong>a. Profile of the target group–</strong> We based our decisions of channels on the knowledge about smartphone ownership and social media usage of the merchants and end-consumers. A majority of the merchants owned a smartphone and had a presence on social media. In Bhatta Basti, less than half of the population owned smartphones.</div>\r\n<div><strong>b. Stage of adoption and triggers/barriers–</strong> Both merchants and end-consumers are at different stages of adoption. While some were open and willing to transact digitally, they did not have the ability; others were not even aware of digital payment options. Therefore, in some cases, the solution needed to increase awareness and invoke interest while, in others, the solutions needed to begin with getting the end-consumer onboarded onto the platform and then take them forward. Further, our communication through these channels was based on the triggers and barriers identified through our field work. An illustration of the triggers and barriers across the dairy merchants’ adoption journey is provided in Table 2.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n\r\nI am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 2: Illustrative information on triggers and barriers identified for adoption of digital payment solutions by dairy merchants</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style></p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged but not adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Value proposition of direct money transfer to bank account increases security and eases services like bill payment, account-to-account money transfer.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perception of digital payments to be an inevitable future.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Technical difficulties of using correct phone version, bank account type, etc.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perceived time and complexity of a digital transaction.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive to undertake extra effort in terms of daily bank visit to digitize income and opportunity cost of time, fuel and business loss.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged and adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer and increased security.</li>\r\n 	<li>Helped retailers in credit building.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of customer interest in digital payments.</li>\r\n 	<li>90% of the non-cash customers use wallets, and show resistance to UPI adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive and opportunity cost of bank visit.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active user</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Allow retailers to pay at convenience with no dependency on distributor’s cash collector.</li>\r\n 	<li>Hassle-free accounting.</li>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network connectivity issues.</li>\r\n 	<li>Commission charges of digital payment service providers diminish the already thin dairy margins.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>c. Familiarity and trust with channel: It is very important to select a channel that the customers are familiar with and trust completely. This is also true of the change agents or influencers who introduce them to the solutions.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Based on the above, the various channels that CATALYST used to communicate value propositions and improve DFC of the customers across ecosystems are presented in the matrix in Figure 4.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 3: Channels used to present DFC value proposition</p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th></th>\r\n<th>eMitras</th>\r\n<th>Dairy</th>\r\n<th>Bhatta Basti</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Merchant-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of eMitra agents</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>IVRS for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of dairy merchants</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Consumer-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentives</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Facebook awareness video</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital mela for awareness and onboarding (with distribution of visual collaterals like comic books, flyers)</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group moderated by change agents of the community</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Toll-free IVRS:\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][kleo_button title=\"Download full report\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" position=\"center\" size=\"lg\" type=\"boxed-icon\" special=\"no\" icon=\"download\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"pkirbtn\" icon_custom_background=\"#d11e3c\" icon_custom_text=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=\"footer_area\" text_align=\"center\" type=\"image\" bg_position_horizontal=\"center\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"50px\" padding_bottom=\"50px\" bg_image=\"7886\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_col-sm-offset-0\"][vc_single_image image=\"7888\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#ffffff\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484826151396{margin-top: 35px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CATALYST is an initiative seeded by an alliance between the Government of India &amp; USAID, to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India, especially for small merchants and low-income consumers.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484051069491{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[email-newsletter-plugin]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_icon icon=\"facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CashlessCatalyst/\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"linkedin\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/13221050?trk=tyah&amp;trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A13221050%2Cidx%3A2-1-2%2CtarId%3A1476420479247%2Ctas%3Acashless%20catalyst\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/cashlesscatalys\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"youtube-play\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChuc38_PfawDOu44IfYS4lw\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Using behavioral insights to improve digital financial capability of customers', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '40127-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-01-21 07:07:46', '2019-01-21 07:07:46', '', 40127, 'https://cashlesscatalyst.org/media/40127-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(40241, 23, '2019-01-21 07:14:30', '2019-01-21 07:14:30', '[vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" type=\"image\" enable_parallax=\"false\" parallax_speed=\"0.4\" padding_top=\"110\" padding_bottom=\"0\" bg_image=\"40136\"][vc_column][kleo_gap size=\"100px\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"USING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO IMPROVE DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY (DFC) OF CUSTOMERS: KEY LEARNINGS FROM OUR EXPERIMENTS ACROSS DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:48px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:54px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap size=\"140px\"][kleo_gap size=\"50px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" padding_bottom=\"0\"][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner width=\"5/12\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531456733{padding-right: 0px !important;}\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"][addtoany][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531444909{padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][kleo_button title=\"Print this page\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"custom\" position=\"left\" size=\"lg\" special=\"no\" border=\"no\" icon=\"print\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"grey-icon\" custom_text=\"#d11e3c\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"About CATALYST\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]CATALYST is a user-centric ‘digital financial inclusion innovation platform’ for the underserved last mile. The initiative is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the mSTAR Program, through funding provided to FHI 360. Housed within the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (IFMR LEAD), the initiative aims to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India.CATALYST identifies, develops and validates solution frameworks and business models in collaboration with facilitating government agencies and participating industry solution providers to responsibly transition small business ecosystems (i.e., merchants, consumers, suppliers) from an inefficient cash economy to digital payment platforms, and further onto broader digital finance solutions. CATALYST has also launched a new business incubator, ‘Fintech for the Last Mile,’ to promote entrepreneurs focused on developing innovative digital finance solutions for traditionally underserved segments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"Acknowledgements\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>The authors thank and acknowledge the support of Arbind Vishwakarma,</div>\r\n<div>Deepti KC, Tunisha Kapoor and John Arun for the insights from their respective projects. Thanks also to Harsh Pandey (FHI 360), Jayshree Venkatesan, Ankur Gautam and Preethi Rao for editorial reviews and feedback, and to Badal Malick and Sharon Buteau for their consistent support and encouragement.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n\r\nEvidence suggests that the use of digital financial services can offer benefits such as increased financial transparency, accountability and inclusion. ¹For customers to adopt these solutions, however, it is very important that they see value in these solutions and have the ability and willingness to change their existing habit. This paper elaborates our learnings from experiments deployed by us to improve the uptake of digital payments and promote digital financial inclusion of the population. Some key insights from our field work and interactions with stakeholders include:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Both the end-consumers and the merchants aren’t proactively looking for digital financial solutions, so the hook to adopt these will have to be very strong. It must be a solution that meets a specific personal need for it to be relevant.</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital financial services are seen as a ‘double-edged sword’ - While majority agree that digital payments and services are convenient and helpful, there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances and lack of confidence in their data being kept private. It is very important for the solutions, communication channels and influencers to be trust-worthy to drive adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Another aspect that is critical to build customers’ trust is seamless alignment of solutions with emerging technologies. Currently, there are many teething problems with some of the nascent technologies that use UPI or AEPS. If solution providers cannot fix these issues, these liabilities should be clearly defined and communicated to the customers – so that there is no lack of trust later.</li>\r\n 	<li>Adoption of digital financial services is directly proportional to a customer’s familiarity with technology and his/her state of financial inclusion. Taking a low-income individuals on the route to digital financial inclusion, who may or may not have bank accounts to begin with, is a long-drawn process requiring sustained interventions. It is therefore important to first identify the early adopters - example someone who is actively banking and has a smartphone -as they will be more open to change. Once onboarded, they can be the change-agents in networks where they are trusted.</li>\r\n 	<li>Merchants are ready and willing to offer any digital payment solution that the consumers ask for, but the push must be driven by consumers’ demand for it so that it improves their business. Therefore, the initial capability focus for the solution providers should be end-consumers as it is their interest and intent that will decide the merchants’ interest.</li>\r\n 	<li>Taking financial decisions is, in general, perceived to be a complex task – especially by women where they pass on the task to men of the household. There could be various societal norms at play here, but it is very important to take out the complexity from matters related to money. Simple digital solutions can help boost confidence of women and others who might be finding financial decisions complex, in general, and address this need for simplicity in finance.</li>\r\n 	<li>Once people convert to digital payments, they sustain this behavior easily. It requires substantial time and effort to communicate benefits and handhold a consumer to onboard a new digital payments platform. However, once they are onboarded and have personally experienced the convenience of digital payment solutions, people continue to use them.</li>\r\n 	<li>Integrated digital financial inclusion programs should focus on the entire cycle from awareness to sustained change with a specific solution at every step.</li>\r\n 	<li>Finally, to communicate various value propositions and build digital financial capabilities of customers, CATALYST used different channels to reach out to them. We found that a mix of social media and interpersonal channels is important to reach different profiles of people (youth, working men, self-employed women, housewives) who would be at different stages of the adoption curve. For merchants, since they have little active interest in digital payments currently, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<a href=\"http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution\">http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution</a>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1: The adoption continuum and learnings</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40152\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#373b3c\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40100\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"2. WHAT IS DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>Financial capability is defined as ‘the combination of knowledge,</div>\r\n<div>skills, attitudes, and behaviors a person needs to make sound financial decisions. ³We defined digital financial capability as the ability and willingness of the customers to use digital financial services. The key levers that we tried to impact through our work were awareness and knowledge of various options available, how to use the service, attitude towards the service (i.e. willingness), using the service and finally repeated use (sustained behavior and advocacy).</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 2: Levers of DFC</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40160\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>In isolation, while digital financial literacy shifts the responsibility onto consumers to decide for themselves and to act on the available options, DFC handholds consumers to the last mile by building their capacity to act as well as providing clear opportunities to do so. With the DFC approach, our intent was to convert people’s knowledge into action.  It is not just about making them aware; it is about filling the huge gap between awareness and action by providing specific end-to-end solutions throughout the adoption journey.</div>\r\n<div>To change the sticky behavior of using cash, people do not just need to be educated about alternative solutions but also need clear answers to ‘why they should change’ and ‘how they should change,’ i.e., they need to have a value proposition or a nudge that will propel them to drop a habit. While ‘why’ will drive their willingness, the ‘how’ will increase their ability to transact.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<a href=\"http://³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf\">³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf</a>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40101\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"3. ECOSYSTEMS WHERE WE DEPLOYED DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY EXPERIMENTS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]We first identified the ecosystems wherein digitization could solve the existing problems by bringing about behavior change.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dairy: </strong> A small-value daily purchase such as milk – which involves a number of stakeholders in the supply chain to finally bring milk to the end-consumer – presented a great opportunity for large-scale behavior change. There were four key players we could influence for behavior change across the dairy supply chain: Jaipur Dairy (supplying dairy products under the brand name Saras); dairy distributors; retailers at the booths; and end-consumers. Jaipur Dairy was already accepting payments digitally from distributors, allowing settlement only through bank transfers or checks. This meant that the distributor had to digitize the cash that s/he collected from the retailer; her/his cash collection agent would collect cash from all the retailers and then the distributor would visit banks multiple times to deposit it. There was also the problem of loose change during point-of-sales transactions and the risk of theft from cash collection agents. Digitization of payments along this supply chain from Jaipur Dairy to the end-consumer could resolve all these problems. Details of our work in the dairy ecosystem are presented in Annex 1b.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMitra: </strong> eMitra is an e-governance platform offered by the Government of Rajasthan that provides 387 government to customer (G2C) and customer to business (C2B) services such as electricity or water bill payments to its citizens. Rajasthan has over 52,000 physical eMitra centers across the state of which approximately 5,000 operate in Jaipur. Any eMitra entrepreneur must deposit an upfront amount of INR 1 lakh with the government to start providing these services to customers. Given that 98 percent of these transactions are made in cash by end-consumers means that the eMitra entrepreneurs face the burden of high initial working capital and loss of business when they are busy with bank visits to digitize their cash. Once we identified these challenges, we wanted to create an enabling environment for end-consumers to pay digitally for eMitra services. Details of our work in the eMitra ecosystem are presented in Annex 1c.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bhatta Basti: </strong> In this migrant slum cluster, to understand the target population and assess their financial needs, CATALYST conducted a survey with randomly selected 442 low-income households in August 2017.⁴ The study indicated useful statistics such as the majority of the bank account holders in Bhatta Basti were male heads of the family; only about 39 percent of the primary earners had any kind of savings; people largely relied on cash-based payments; and a mere 6 percent of the households had any information on digital payments. This highlighted the need for a step-wise approach to first educate consumers about the basic tenets of account opening, help open accounts for use, and then introduce them to the concept of digital financial payments and solutions. Details of our work in the Bhatta Basti ecosystem are presented in Annex 1a.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 3: Key demographics from Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40168\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For each of these ecosystems, we first mapped the journeys of our customers from awareness to adoption and identified triggers and barriers to then design value propositions and channels to influence their behavior.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For more on the survey, check  <a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/</a></div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]Catalyst conducted a survey⁵ in Jaipur that revealed that over two-fifths of the merchants surveyed had tried some form of digital payments. However, only a third reported sustained use, a fraction of the overall volumes. The most popular payment service was closed loop wallets, chosen by nearly three-fourths of those surveyed. A little less than a third used cards, and about 25 percent used internet banking. Only 8 percent of overall customer transactions by value were executed digitally. Merchants stated a low customer demand as the biggest reason for not using digital payment solutions, followed by a lack of awareness and the fear of being cheated in that order.⁶[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<div>These survey findings were in line with common knowledge in this domain that</div>\r\n<div>barriers to adoption of digital financial services are in abundance, more so among the poor in India. Use of cash for payments is a particularly sticky habit, one that has witnessed resurgence after seeing a slight dip in the demonetization aftermath. Several situational and behavioral factors play a role here. Through extensive desk research and our work across various use-cases, we identified the following key barriers to adoption of digital financial services -</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>habit of using cash and inertia towards non-cash methods</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of compelling value propositions to change</li>\r\n 	<li>limited access to mobile phones and the internet coupled with infrastructural barriers such as poor network connectivity and irregular electricity</li>\r\n 	<li>low levels of digital literacy and perceived complexity of using digital platforms</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of trust in digital services, with fears of fraud and hidden charges;</li>\r\n 	<li>limited acceptance of digital infrastructure by local merchants is both an access and usage barrier. This is often common with new consumers, especially when the interface is cumbersome, or the transaction experience is not smooth owing to poor connectivity or confusing instructions. During the initial trial phase, trust placed in the platform is quickly revoked and the customer reverts to cash.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Active field work and continuous monitoring of data enabled identification of key focus areas, and factors that were working and non working in improving DFC in each of the ecosystems. For illustrative purposes, we have listed in Table 1 the key triggers and barriers at every step of the journey that led to the DFC nudges in Bhatta Basti. More details of our work in Bhatta Basti can be found in Annex 1a.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]⁵See: Mapping the Merchant’s Mind: An analysis of digital payments behaviors by fixed store merchants in Jaipur, Malick, Badal and Rajesh Shukla, PRICE-Catalyst report 2018 &lt;<a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf</a>&gt;⁶ Price-CATALYST report 2018, Malick, B. and R. Shukla, ibid.\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 1: Illustrative box on triggers and barriers identified for digital financial inclusion journey in Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n\r\n<style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Bank Accounts)</td>\r\n<td>Value propositions of benefits and advantages of savings and banking</td>\r\n<td>Little awareness about benefits of savings and bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of bank accounts</td>\r\n<td>Improved awareness and financial capability - how to use financial sources, whom to trust and what information must not be shared</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust - refusal to open bank accounts due to prior experience with the cases of fraud</li>\r\n 	<li>Documentation issues - Documents unavailable in case of migrant members, problems associated with Aadhaar card</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active Banking</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Connecting financial inclusion to education inclusion, health inclusion etc. For example. many families wanted to avail of scholarships for their children upon opening bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Youth /educated member in the family were often consulted for advice on financial matters. Thus, increased efficacy towards digital financial capability among youth would have a positive influence</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Lack of clear value proposition for financial inclusion</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust, particularly amongst women in Bhatta Basti, about the safety of money in bank accounts</li>\r\n 	<li>Low confidence in safekeeping of debit cards and making digital payments</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Digital Payments)</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Awareness about usage and how to keep accounts secure,</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentive</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most did not have smartphones</li>\r\n 	<li>Little awareness, exposure or familiarity with banking and mobile payment operations/ instruments and its perceived complexity</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust in safety associated with digital transactions</li>\r\n 	<li>No interest or motivation in using non-cash modes of payment</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Aspirational imagery of being with the times (mostly youth)</li>\r\n 	<li>Convenience (mostly working men)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network issues - lack of access to internet in many parts of Bhatta Basti</li>\r\n 	<li>Time and distance factor for the process of on-boarding</li>\r\n 	<li>Varied technical glitches and problems</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active usage of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>Adoption of digital payment solutions such as AEPS, UPI etc. by merchants, e-mitras and vendors in Bhatta Basti</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of reliable and consistent network</li>\r\n 	<li>No clear benefit seen over cash payments</li>\r\n 	<li>Absence of regular and trusted merchants and vendors on these platforms</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"5. Designing behavioral nudges and channels to communicate\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Once the gaps and opportunities within each user segment were identified, our efforts were directed towards answering two critical questions: where should the digital financial solutions operate (in the user journey) and what is the value gap that they will address? This is the step at which targeted solutions to address the gaps and the relevant behavioral nudges emerged.</div>\r\n<div>While designing the DFC nudges and choosing various channels for its delivery, we ensured a mix of value propositions for both the merchants as well as the end-consumers – that addressed various stages of adoption. The decision on the channels and the value propositions we communicated were based on –</div>\r\n<div><strong>a. Profile of the target group–</strong> We based our decisions of channels on the knowledge about smartphone ownership and social media usage of the merchants and end-consumers. A majority of the merchants owned a smartphone and had a presence on social media. In Bhatta Basti, less than half of the population owned smartphones.</div>\r\n<div><strong>b. Stage of adoption and triggers/barriers–</strong> Both merchants and end-consumers are at different stages of adoption. While some were open and willing to transact digitally, they did not have the ability; others were not even aware of digital payment options. Therefore, in some cases, the solution needed to increase awareness and invoke interest while, in others, the solutions needed to begin with getting the end-consumer onboarded onto the platform and then take them forward. Further, our communication through these channels was based on the triggers and barriers identified through our field work. An illustration of the triggers and barriers across the dairy merchants’ adoption journey is provided in Table 2.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n\r\nI am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 2: Illustrative information on triggers and barriers identified for adoption of digital payment solutions by dairy merchants</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style></p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged but not adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Value proposition of direct money transfer to bank account increases security and eases services like bill payment, account-to-account money transfer.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perception of digital payments to be an inevitable future.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Technical difficulties of using correct phone version, bank account type, etc.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perceived time and complexity of a digital transaction.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive to undertake extra effort in terms of daily bank visit to digitize income and opportunity cost of time, fuel and business loss.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged and adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer and increased security.</li>\r\n 	<li>Helped retailers in credit building.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of customer interest in digital payments.</li>\r\n 	<li>90% of the non-cash customers use wallets, and show resistance to UPI adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive and opportunity cost of bank visit.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active user</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Allow retailers to pay at convenience with no dependency on distributor’s cash collector.</li>\r\n 	<li>Hassle-free accounting.</li>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network connectivity issues.</li>\r\n 	<li>Commission charges of digital payment service providers diminish the already thin dairy margins.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>c. Familiarity and trust with channel: It is very important to select a channel that the customers are familiar with and trust completely. This is also true of the change agents or influencers who introduce them to the solutions.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Based on the above, the various channels that CATALYST used to communicate value propositions and improve DFC of the customers across ecosystems are presented in the matrix in Figure 4.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 3: Channels used to present DFC value proposition</p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th></th>\r\n<th>eMitras</th>\r\n<th>Dairy</th>\r\n<th>Bhatta Basti</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Merchant-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of eMitra agents</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>IVRS for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of dairy merchants</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Consumer-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentives</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Facebook awareness video</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital mela for awareness and onboarding (with distribution of visual collaterals like comic books, flyers)</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group moderated by change agents of the community</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Toll-free IVRS:\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][kleo_button title=\"Download full report\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" position=\"center\" size=\"lg\" type=\"boxed-icon\" special=\"no\" icon=\"download\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"pkirbtn\" icon_custom_background=\"#d11e3c\" icon_custom_text=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=\"footer_area\" text_align=\"center\" type=\"image\" bg_position_horizontal=\"center\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"50px\" padding_bottom=\"50px\" bg_image=\"7886\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_col-sm-offset-0\"][vc_single_image image=\"7888\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#ffffff\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484826151396{margin-top: 35px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CATALYST is an initiative seeded by an alliance between the Government of India &amp; USAID, to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India, especially for small merchants and low-income consumers.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484051069491{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[email-newsletter-plugin]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_icon icon=\"facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CashlessCatalyst/\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"linkedin\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/13221050?trk=tyah&amp;trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A13221050%2Cidx%3A2-1-2%2CtarId%3A1476420479247%2Ctas%3Acashless%20catalyst\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/cashlesscatalys\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"youtube-play\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChuc38_PfawDOu44IfYS4lw\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Using behavioral insights to improve digital financial capability of customers', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '40127-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-01-21 07:14:30', '2019-01-21 07:14:30', '', 40127, 'https://cashlesscatalyst.org/media/40127-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(40242, 23, '2019-01-21 07:55:36', '2019-01-21 07:55:36', '[vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" type=\"image\" enable_parallax=\"false\" parallax_speed=\"0.4\" padding_top=\"110\" padding_bottom=\"0\" bg_image=\"40136\"][vc_column][kleo_gap size=\"100px\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"USING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO IMPROVE DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY (DFC) OF CUSTOMERS: KEY LEARNINGS FROM OUR EXPERIMENTS ACROSS DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:48px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:54px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap size=\"140px\"][kleo_gap size=\"50px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" padding_bottom=\"0\"][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner width=\"5/12\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531456733{padding-right: 0px !important;}\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"][addtoany][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531444909{padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][kleo_button title=\"Print this page\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"custom\" position=\"left\" size=\"lg\" special=\"no\" border=\"no\" icon=\"print\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"grey-icon\" custom_text=\"#d11e3c\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"About CATALYST\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]CATALYST is a user-centric ‘digital financial inclusion innovation platform’ for the underserved last mile. The initiative is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the mSTAR Program, through funding provided to FHI 360. Housed within the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (IFMR LEAD), the initiative aims to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India.CATALYST identifies, develops and validates solution frameworks and business models in collaboration with facilitating government agencies and participating industry solution providers to responsibly transition small business ecosystems (i.e., merchants, consumers, suppliers) from an inefficient cash economy to digital payment platforms, and further onto broader digital finance solutions. CATALYST has also launched a new business incubator, ‘Fintech for the Last Mile,’ to promote entrepreneurs focused on developing innovative digital finance solutions for traditionally underserved segments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"Acknowledgements\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>The authors thank and acknowledge the support of Arbind Vishwakarma,</div>\r\n<div>Deepti KC, Tunisha Kapoor and John Arun for the insights from their respective projects. Thanks also to Harsh Pandey (FHI 360), Jayshree Venkatesan, Ankur Gautam and Preethi Rao for editorial reviews and feedback, and to Badal Malick and Sharon Buteau for their consistent support and encouragement.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n\r\nEvidence suggests that the use of digital financial services can offer benefits such as increased financial transparency, accountability and inclusion. ¹For customers to adopt these solutions, however, it is very important that they see value in these solutions and have the ability and willingness to change their existing habit. This paper elaborates our learnings from experiments deployed by us to improve the uptake of digital payments and promote digital financial inclusion of the population. Some key insights from our field work and interactions with stakeholders include:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Both the end-consumers and the merchants aren’t proactively looking for digital financial solutions, so the hook to adopt these will have to be very strong. It must be a solution that meets a specific personal need for it to be relevant.</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital financial services are seen as a ‘double-edged sword’ - While majority agree that digital payments and services are convenient and helpful, there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances and lack of confidence in their data being kept private. It is very important for the solutions, communication channels and influencers to be trust-worthy to drive adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Another aspect that is critical to build customers’ trust is seamless alignment of solutions with emerging technologies. Currently, there are many teething problems with some of the nascent technologies that use UPI or AEPS. If solution providers cannot fix these issues, these liabilities should be clearly defined and communicated to the customers – so that there is no lack of trust later.</li>\r\n 	<li>Adoption of digital financial services is directly proportional to a customer’s familiarity with technology and his/her state of financial inclusion. Taking a low-income individuals on the route to digital financial inclusion, who may or may not have bank accounts to begin with, is a long-drawn process requiring sustained interventions. It is therefore important to first identify the early adopters - example someone who is actively banking and has a smartphone -as they will be more open to change. Once onboarded, they can be the change-agents in networks where they are trusted.</li>\r\n 	<li>Merchants are ready and willing to offer any digital payment solution that the consumers ask for, but the push must be driven by consumers’ demand for it so that it improves their business. Therefore, the initial capability focus for the solution providers should be end-consumers as it is their interest and intent that will decide the merchants’ interest.</li>\r\n 	<li>Taking financial decisions is, in general, perceived to be a complex task – especially by women where they pass on the task to men of the household. There could be various societal norms at play here, but it is very important to take out the complexity from matters related to money. Simple digital solutions can help boost confidence of women and others who might be finding financial decisions complex, in general, and address this need for simplicity in finance.</li>\r\n 	<li>Once people convert to digital payments, they sustain this behavior easily. It requires substantial time and effort to communicate benefits and handhold a consumer to onboard a new digital payments platform. However, once they are onboarded and have personally experienced the convenience of digital payment solutions, people continue to use them.</li>\r\n 	<li>Integrated digital financial inclusion programs should focus on the entire cycle from awareness to sustained change with a specific solution at every step.</li>\r\n 	<li>Finally, to communicate various value propositions and build digital financial capabilities of customers, CATALYST used different channels to reach out to them. We found that a mix of social media and interpersonal channels is important to reach different profiles of people (youth, working men, self-employed women, housewives) who would be at different stages of the adoption curve. For merchants, since they have little active interest in digital payments currently, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<a href=\"http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution\">http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution</a>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1: The adoption continuum and learnings</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40152\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#373b3c\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40100\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"2. WHAT IS DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>Financial capability is defined as ‘the combination of knowledge,</div>\r\n<div>skills, attitudes, and behaviors a person needs to make sound financial decisions. ³We defined digital financial capability as the ability and willingness of the customers to use digital financial services. The key levers that we tried to impact through our work were awareness and knowledge of various options available, how to use the service, attitude towards the service (i.e. willingness), using the service and finally repeated use (sustained behavior and advocacy).</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 2: Levers of DFC</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40160\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>In isolation, while digital financial literacy shifts the responsibility onto consumers to decide for themselves and to act on the available options, DFC handholds consumers to the last mile by building their capacity to act as well as providing clear opportunities to do so. With the DFC approach, our intent was to convert people’s knowledge into action.  It is not just about making them aware; it is about filling the huge gap between awareness and action by providing specific end-to-end solutions throughout the adoption journey.</div>\r\n<div>To change the sticky behavior of using cash, people do not just need to be educated about alternative solutions but also need clear answers to ‘why they should change’ and ‘how they should change,’ i.e., they need to have a value proposition or a nudge that will propel them to drop a habit. While ‘why’ will drive their willingness, the ‘how’ will increase their ability to transact.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<a href=\"http://³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf\">³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf</a>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40101\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"3. ECOSYSTEMS WHERE WE DEPLOYED DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY EXPERIMENTS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]We first identified the ecosystems wherein digitization could solve the existing problems by bringing about behavior change.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dairy: </strong> A small-value daily purchase such as milk – which involves a number of stakeholders in the supply chain to finally bring milk to the end-consumer – presented a great opportunity for large-scale behavior change. There were four key players we could influence for behavior change across the dairy supply chain: Jaipur Dairy (supplying dairy products under the brand name Saras); dairy distributors; retailers at the booths; and end-consumers. Jaipur Dairy was already accepting payments digitally from distributors, allowing settlement only through bank transfers or checks. This meant that the distributor had to digitize the cash that s/he collected from the retailer; her/his cash collection agent would collect cash from all the retailers and then the distributor would visit banks multiple times to deposit it. There was also the problem of loose change during point-of-sales transactions and the risk of theft from cash collection agents. Digitization of payments along this supply chain from Jaipur Dairy to the end-consumer could resolve all these problems. Details of our work in the dairy ecosystem are presented in Annex 1b.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMitra: </strong> eMitra is an e-governance platform offered by the Government of Rajasthan that provides 387 government to customer (G2C) and customer to business (C2B) services such as electricity or water bill payments to its citizens. Rajasthan has over 52,000 physical eMitra centers across the state of which approximately 5,000 operate in Jaipur. Any eMitra entrepreneur must deposit an upfront amount of INR 1 lakh with the government to start providing these services to customers. Given that 98 percent of these transactions are made in cash by end-consumers means that the eMitra entrepreneurs face the burden of high initial working capital and loss of business when they are busy with bank visits to digitize their cash. Once we identified these challenges, we wanted to create an enabling environment for end-consumers to pay digitally for eMitra services. Details of our work in the eMitra ecosystem are presented in Annex 1c.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bhatta Basti: </strong> In this migrant slum cluster, to understand the target population and assess their financial needs, CATALYST conducted a survey with randomly selected 442 low-income households in August 2017.⁴ The study indicated useful statistics such as the majority of the bank account holders in Bhatta Basti were male heads of the family; only about 39 percent of the primary earners had any kind of savings; people largely relied on cash-based payments; and a mere 6 percent of the households had any information on digital payments. This highlighted the need for a step-wise approach to first educate consumers about the basic tenets of account opening, help open accounts for use, and then introduce them to the concept of digital financial payments and solutions. Details of our work in the Bhatta Basti ecosystem are presented in Annex 1a.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 3: Key demographics from Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40168\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For each of these ecosystems, we first mapped the journeys of our customers from awareness to adoption and identified triggers and barriers to then design value propositions and channels to influence their behavior.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For more on the survey, check  <a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/</a></div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]Catalyst conducted a survey⁵ in Jaipur that revealed that over two-fifths of the merchants surveyed had tried some form of digital payments. However, only a third reported sustained use, a fraction of the overall volumes. The most popular payment service was closed loop wallets, chosen by nearly three-fourths of those surveyed. A little less than a third used cards, and about 25 percent used internet banking. Only 8 percent of overall customer transactions by value were executed digitally. Merchants stated a low customer demand as the biggest reason for not using digital payment solutions, followed by a lack of awareness and the fear of being cheated in that order.⁶[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<div>These survey findings were in line with common knowledge in this domain that</div>\r\n<div>barriers to adoption of digital financial services are in abundance, more so among the poor in India. Use of cash for payments is a particularly sticky habit, one that has witnessed resurgence after seeing a slight dip in the demonetization aftermath. Several situational and behavioral factors play a role here. Through extensive desk research and our work across various use-cases, we identified the following key barriers to adoption of digital financial services -</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>habit of using cash and inertia towards non-cash methods</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of compelling value propositions to change</li>\r\n 	<li>limited access to mobile phones and the internet coupled with infrastructural barriers such as poor network connectivity and irregular electricity</li>\r\n 	<li>low levels of digital literacy and perceived complexity of using digital platforms</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of trust in digital services, with fears of fraud and hidden charges;</li>\r\n 	<li>limited acceptance of digital infrastructure by local merchants is both an access and usage barrier. This is often common with new consumers, especially when the interface is cumbersome, or the transaction experience is not smooth owing to poor connectivity or confusing instructions. During the initial trial phase, trust placed in the platform is quickly revoked and the customer reverts to cash.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Active field work and continuous monitoring of data enabled identification of key focus areas, and factors that were working and non working in improving DFC in each of the ecosystems. For illustrative purposes, we have listed in Table 1 the key triggers and barriers at every step of the journey that led to the DFC nudges in Bhatta Basti. More details of our work in Bhatta Basti can be found in Annex 1a.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]⁵See: Mapping the Merchant’s Mind: An analysis of digital payments behaviors by fixed store merchants in Jaipur, Malick, Badal and Rajesh Shukla, PRICE-Catalyst report 2018 &lt;<a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf</a>&gt;⁶ Price-CATALYST report 2018, Malick, B. and R. Shukla, ibid.\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 1: Illustrative box on triggers and barriers identified for digital financial inclusion journey in Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n\r\n<style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Bank Accounts)</td>\r\n<td>Value propositions of benefits and advantages of savings and banking</td>\r\n<td>Little awareness about benefits of savings and bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of bank accounts</td>\r\n<td>Improved awareness and financial capability - how to use financial sources, whom to trust and what information must not be shared</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust - refusal to open bank accounts due to prior experience with the cases of fraud</li>\r\n 	<li>Documentation issues - Documents unavailable in case of migrant members, problems associated with Aadhaar card</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active Banking</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Connecting financial inclusion to education inclusion, health inclusion etc. For example. many families wanted to avail of scholarships for their children upon opening bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Youth /educated member in the family were often consulted for advice on financial matters. Thus, increased efficacy towards digital financial capability among youth would have a positive influence</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Lack of clear value proposition for financial inclusion</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust, particularly amongst women in Bhatta Basti, about the safety of money in bank accounts</li>\r\n 	<li>Low confidence in safekeeping of debit cards and making digital payments</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Digital Payments)</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Awareness about usage and how to keep accounts secure,</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentive</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most did not have smartphones</li>\r\n 	<li>Little awareness, exposure or familiarity with banking and mobile payment operations/ instruments and its perceived complexity</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust in safety associated with digital transactions</li>\r\n 	<li>No interest or motivation in using non-cash modes of payment</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Aspirational imagery of being with the times (mostly youth)</li>\r\n 	<li>Convenience (mostly working men)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network issues - lack of access to internet in many parts of Bhatta Basti</li>\r\n 	<li>Time and distance factor for the process of on-boarding</li>\r\n 	<li>Varied technical glitches and problems</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active usage of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>Adoption of digital payment solutions such as AEPS, UPI etc. by merchants, e-mitras and vendors in Bhatta Basti</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of reliable and consistent network</li>\r\n 	<li>No clear benefit seen over cash payments</li>\r\n 	<li>Absence of regular and trusted merchants and vendors on these platforms</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"5. Designing behavioral nudges and channels to communicate\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Once the gaps and opportunities within each user segment were identified, our efforts were directed towards answering two critical questions: where should the digital financial solutions operate (in the user journey) and what is the value gap that they will address? This is the step at which targeted solutions to address the gaps and the relevant behavioral nudges emerged.</div>\r\n<div>While designing the DFC nudges and choosing various channels for its delivery, we ensured a mix of value propositions for both the merchants as well as the end-consumers – that addressed various stages of adoption. The decision on the channels and the value propositions we communicated were based on –</div>\r\n<div><strong>a. Profile of the target group–</strong> We based our decisions of channels on the knowledge about smartphone ownership and social media usage of the merchants and end-consumers. A majority of the merchants owned a smartphone and had a presence on social media. In Bhatta Basti, less than half of the population owned smartphones.</div>\r\n<div><strong>b. Stage of adoption and triggers/barriers–</strong> Both merchants and end-consumers are at different stages of adoption. While some were open and willing to transact digitally, they did not have the ability; others were not even aware of digital payment options. Therefore, in some cases, the solution needed to increase awareness and invoke interest while, in others, the solutions needed to begin with getting the end-consumer onboarded onto the platform and then take them forward. Further, our communication through these channels was based on the triggers and barriers identified through our field work. An illustration of the triggers and barriers across the dairy merchants’ adoption journey is provided in Table 2.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n\r\nI am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 2: Illustrative information on triggers and barriers identified for adoption of digital payment solutions by dairy merchants</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style></p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged but not adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Value proposition of direct money transfer to bank account increases security and eases services like bill payment, account-to-account money transfer.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perception of digital payments to be an inevitable future.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Technical difficulties of using correct phone version, bank account type, etc.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perceived time and complexity of a digital transaction.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive to undertake extra effort in terms of daily bank visit to digitize income and opportunity cost of time, fuel and business loss.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged and adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer and increased security.</li>\r\n 	<li>Helped retailers in credit building.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of customer interest in digital payments.</li>\r\n 	<li>90% of the non-cash customers use wallets, and show resistance to UPI adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive and opportunity cost of bank visit.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active user</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Allow retailers to pay at convenience with no dependency on distributor’s cash collector.</li>\r\n 	<li>Hassle-free accounting.</li>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network connectivity issues.</li>\r\n 	<li>Commission charges of digital payment service providers diminish the already thin dairy margins.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>c. Familiarity and trust with channel: It is very important to select a channel that the customers are familiar with and trust completely. This is also true of the change agents or influencers who introduce them to the solutions.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Based on the above, the various channels that CATALYST used to communicate value propositions and improve DFC of the customers across ecosystems are presented in the matrix in Figure 4.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 3: Channels used to present DFC value proposition</p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th></th>\r\n<th>eMitras</th>\r\n<th>Dairy</th>\r\n<th>Bhatta Basti</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Merchant-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of eMitra agents</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>IVRS for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of dairy merchants</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Consumer-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentives</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Facebook awareness video</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital mela for awareness and onboarding (with distribution of visual collaterals like comic books, flyers)</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group moderated by change agents of the community</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Toll-free IVRS:\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Since merchants have very little active interest in digital payments right now, channels such as IVRS where they need to call by themselves might not work unless there is a clear incentive or direct link with increase in business. Even at a stage where merchants are ready and willing to access IVRS, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support, with a follow up SMS or WhatsApp message This will serve as a ready reckoner and have the link to a customer support number to pose further queries to.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][kleo_button title=\"Download full report\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" position=\"center\" size=\"lg\" type=\"boxed-icon\" special=\"no\" icon=\"download\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"pkirbtn\" icon_custom_background=\"#d11e3c\" icon_custom_text=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=\"footer_area\" text_align=\"center\" type=\"image\" bg_position_horizontal=\"center\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"50px\" padding_bottom=\"50px\" bg_image=\"7886\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_col-sm-offset-0\"][vc_single_image image=\"7888\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#ffffff\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484826151396{margin-top: 35px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CATALYST is an initiative seeded by an alliance between the Government of India &amp; USAID, to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India, especially for small merchants and low-income consumers.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484051069491{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[email-newsletter-plugin]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_icon icon=\"facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CashlessCatalyst/\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"linkedin\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/13221050?trk=tyah&amp;trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A13221050%2Cidx%3A2-1-2%2CtarId%3A1476420479247%2Ctas%3Acashless%20catalyst\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/cashlesscatalys\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"youtube-play\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChuc38_PfawDOu44IfYS4lw\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Using behavioral insights to improve digital financial capability of customers', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '40127-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-01-21 07:55:36', '2019-01-21 07:55:36', '', 40127, 'https://cashlesscatalyst.org/media/40127-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(40243, 23, '2019-01-21 09:17:35', '2019-01-21 09:17:35', '[vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" type=\"image\" enable_parallax=\"false\" parallax_speed=\"0.4\" padding_top=\"110\" padding_bottom=\"0\" bg_image=\"40136\"][vc_column][kleo_gap size=\"100px\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"USING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO IMPROVE DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY (DFC) OF CUSTOMERS: KEY LEARNINGS FROM OUR EXPERIMENTS ACROSS DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:48px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:54px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap size=\"140px\"][kleo_gap size=\"50px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" padding_bottom=\"0\"][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner width=\"5/12\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531456733{padding-right: 0px !important;}\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"][addtoany][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531444909{padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][kleo_button title=\"Print this page\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"custom\" position=\"left\" size=\"lg\" special=\"no\" border=\"no\" icon=\"print\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"grey-icon\" custom_text=\"#d11e3c\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"About CATALYST\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]CATALYST is a user-centric ‘digital financial inclusion innovation platform’ for the underserved last mile. The initiative is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the mSTAR Program, through funding provided to FHI 360. Housed within the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (IFMR LEAD), the initiative aims to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India.CATALYST identifies, develops and validates solution frameworks and business models in collaboration with facilitating government agencies and participating industry solution providers to responsibly transition small business ecosystems (i.e., merchants, consumers, suppliers) from an inefficient cash economy to digital payment platforms, and further onto broader digital finance solutions. CATALYST has also launched a new business incubator, ‘Fintech for the Last Mile,’ to promote entrepreneurs focused on developing innovative digital finance solutions for traditionally underserved segments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"Acknowledgements\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>The authors thank and acknowledge the support of Arbind Vishwakarma,</div>\r\n<div>Deepti KC, Tunisha Kapoor and John Arun for the insights from their respective projects. Thanks also to Harsh Pandey (FHI 360), Jayshree Venkatesan, Ankur Gautam and Preethi Rao for editorial reviews and feedback, and to Badal Malick and Sharon Buteau for their consistent support and encouragement.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n\r\nEvidence suggests that the use of digital financial services can offer benefits such as increased financial transparency, accountability and inclusion. ¹For customers to adopt these solutions, however, it is very important that they see value in these solutions and have the ability and willingness to change their existing habit. This paper elaborates our learnings from experiments deployed by us to improve the uptake of digital payments and promote digital financial inclusion of the population. Some key insights from our field work and interactions with stakeholders include:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Both the end-consumers and the merchants aren’t proactively looking for digital financial solutions, so the hook to adopt these will have to be very strong. It must be a solution that meets a specific personal need for it to be relevant.</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital financial services are seen as a ‘double-edged sword’ - While majority agree that digital payments and services are convenient and helpful, there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances and lack of confidence in their data being kept private. It is very important for the solutions, communication channels and influencers to be trust-worthy to drive adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Another aspect that is critical to build customers’ trust is seamless alignment of solutions with emerging technologies. Currently, there are many teething problems with some of the nascent technologies that use UPI or AEPS. If solution providers cannot fix these issues, these liabilities should be clearly defined and communicated to the customers – so that there is no lack of trust later.</li>\r\n 	<li>Adoption of digital financial services is directly proportional to a customer’s familiarity with technology and his/her state of financial inclusion. Taking a low-income individuals on the route to digital financial inclusion, who may or may not have bank accounts to begin with, is a long-drawn process requiring sustained interventions. It is therefore important to first identify the early adopters - example someone who is actively banking and has a smartphone -as they will be more open to change. Once onboarded, they can be the change-agents in networks where they are trusted.</li>\r\n 	<li>Merchants are ready and willing to offer any digital payment solution that the consumers ask for, but the push must be driven by consumers’ demand for it so that it improves their business. Therefore, the initial capability focus for the solution providers should be end-consumers as it is their interest and intent that will decide the merchants’ interest.</li>\r\n 	<li>Taking financial decisions is, in general, perceived to be a complex task – especially by women where they pass on the task to men of the household. There could be various societal norms at play here, but it is very important to take out the complexity from matters related to money. Simple digital solutions can help boost confidence of women and others who might be finding financial decisions complex, in general, and address this need for simplicity in finance.</li>\r\n 	<li>Once people convert to digital payments, they sustain this behavior easily. It requires substantial time and effort to communicate benefits and handhold a consumer to onboard a new digital payments platform. However, once they are onboarded and have personally experienced the convenience of digital payment solutions, people continue to use them.</li>\r\n 	<li>Integrated digital financial inclusion programs should focus on the entire cycle from awareness to sustained change with a specific solution at every step.</li>\r\n 	<li>Finally, to communicate various value propositions and build digital financial capabilities of customers, CATALYST used different channels to reach out to them. We found that a mix of social media and interpersonal channels is important to reach different profiles of people (youth, working men, self-employed women, housewives) who would be at different stages of the adoption curve. For merchants, since they have little active interest in digital payments currently, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<a href=\"http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution\">http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution</a>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1: The adoption continuum and learnings</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40152\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#373b3c\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40100\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"2. WHAT IS DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>Financial capability is defined as ‘the combination of knowledge,</div>\r\n<div>skills, attitudes, and behaviors a person needs to make sound financial decisions. ³We defined digital financial capability as the ability and willingness of the customers to use digital financial services. The key levers that we tried to impact through our work were awareness and knowledge of various options available, how to use the service, attitude towards the service (i.e. willingness), using the service and finally repeated use (sustained behavior and advocacy).</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 2: Levers of DFC</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40160\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>In isolation, while digital financial literacy shifts the responsibility onto consumers to decide for themselves and to act on the available options, DFC handholds consumers to the last mile by building their capacity to act as well as providing clear opportunities to do so. With the DFC approach, our intent was to convert people’s knowledge into action.  It is not just about making them aware; it is about filling the huge gap between awareness and action by providing specific end-to-end solutions throughout the adoption journey.</div>\r\n<div>To change the sticky behavior of using cash, people do not just need to be educated about alternative solutions but also need clear answers to ‘why they should change’ and ‘how they should change,’ i.e., they need to have a value proposition or a nudge that will propel them to drop a habit. While ‘why’ will drive their willingness, the ‘how’ will increase their ability to transact.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<a href=\"http://³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf\">³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf</a>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40101\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"3. ECOSYSTEMS WHERE WE DEPLOYED DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY EXPERIMENTS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]We first identified the ecosystems wherein digitization could solve the existing problems by bringing about behavior change.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dairy: </strong> A small-value daily purchase such as milk – which involves a number of stakeholders in the supply chain to finally bring milk to the end-consumer – presented a great opportunity for large-scale behavior change. There were four key players we could influence for behavior change across the dairy supply chain: Jaipur Dairy (supplying dairy products under the brand name Saras); dairy distributors; retailers at the booths; and end-consumers. Jaipur Dairy was already accepting payments digitally from distributors, allowing settlement only through bank transfers or checks. This meant that the distributor had to digitize the cash that s/he collected from the retailer; her/his cash collection agent would collect cash from all the retailers and then the distributor would visit banks multiple times to deposit it. There was also the problem of loose change during point-of-sales transactions and the risk of theft from cash collection agents. Digitization of payments along this supply chain from Jaipur Dairy to the end-consumer could resolve all these problems. Details of our work in the dairy ecosystem are presented in Annex 1b.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMitra: </strong> eMitra is an e-governance platform offered by the Government of Rajasthan that provides 387 government to customer (G2C) and customer to business (C2B) services such as electricity or water bill payments to its citizens. Rajasthan has over 52,000 physical eMitra centers across the state of which approximately 5,000 operate in Jaipur. Any eMitra entrepreneur must deposit an upfront amount of INR 1 lakh with the government to start providing these services to customers. Given that 98 percent of these transactions are made in cash by end-consumers means that the eMitra entrepreneurs face the burden of high initial working capital and loss of business when they are busy with bank visits to digitize their cash. Once we identified these challenges, we wanted to create an enabling environment for end-consumers to pay digitally for eMitra services. Details of our work in the eMitra ecosystem are presented in Annex 1c.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bhatta Basti: </strong> In this migrant slum cluster, to understand the target population and assess their financial needs, CATALYST conducted a survey with randomly selected 442 low-income households in August 2017.⁴ The study indicated useful statistics such as the majority of the bank account holders in Bhatta Basti were male heads of the family; only about 39 percent of the primary earners had any kind of savings; people largely relied on cash-based payments; and a mere 6 percent of the households had any information on digital payments. This highlighted the need for a step-wise approach to first educate consumers about the basic tenets of account opening, help open accounts for use, and then introduce them to the concept of digital financial payments and solutions. Details of our work in the Bhatta Basti ecosystem are presented in Annex 1a.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 3: Key demographics from Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40168\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For each of these ecosystems, we first mapped the journeys of our customers from awareness to adoption and identified triggers and barriers to then design value propositions and channels to influence their behavior.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For more on the survey, check  <a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/</a></div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]Catalyst conducted a survey⁵ in Jaipur that revealed that over two-fifths of the merchants surveyed had tried some form of digital payments. However, only a third reported sustained use, a fraction of the overall volumes. The most popular payment service was closed loop wallets, chosen by nearly three-fourths of those surveyed. A little less than a third used cards, and about 25 percent used internet banking. Only 8 percent of overall customer transactions by value were executed digitally. Merchants stated a low customer demand as the biggest reason for not using digital payment solutions, followed by a lack of awareness and the fear of being cheated in that order.⁶[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<div>These survey findings were in line with common knowledge in this domain that</div>\r\n<div>barriers to adoption of digital financial services are in abundance, more so among the poor in India. Use of cash for payments is a particularly sticky habit, one that has witnessed resurgence after seeing a slight dip in the demonetization aftermath. Several situational and behavioral factors play a role here. Through extensive desk research and our work across various use-cases, we identified the following key barriers to adoption of digital financial services -</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>habit of using cash and inertia towards non-cash methods</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of compelling value propositions to change</li>\r\n 	<li>limited access to mobile phones and the internet coupled with infrastructural barriers such as poor network connectivity and irregular electricity</li>\r\n 	<li>low levels of digital literacy and perceived complexity of using digital platforms</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of trust in digital services, with fears of fraud and hidden charges;</li>\r\n 	<li>limited acceptance of digital infrastructure by local merchants is both an access and usage barrier. This is often common with new consumers, especially when the interface is cumbersome, or the transaction experience is not smooth owing to poor connectivity or confusing instructions. During the initial trial phase, trust placed in the platform is quickly revoked and the customer reverts to cash.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Active field work and continuous monitoring of data enabled identification of key focus areas, and factors that were working and non working in improving DFC in each of the ecosystems. For illustrative purposes, we have listed in Table 1 the key triggers and barriers at every step of the journey that led to the DFC nudges in Bhatta Basti. More details of our work in Bhatta Basti can be found in Annex 1a.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]⁵See: Mapping the Merchant’s Mind: An analysis of digital payments behaviors by fixed store merchants in Jaipur, Malick, Badal and Rajesh Shukla, PRICE-Catalyst report 2018 &lt;<a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf</a>&gt;⁶ Price-CATALYST report 2018, Malick, B. and R. Shukla, ibid.\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 1: Illustrative box on triggers and barriers identified for digital financial inclusion journey in Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n\r\n<style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Bank Accounts)</td>\r\n<td>Value propositions of benefits and advantages of savings and banking</td>\r\n<td>Little awareness about benefits of savings and bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of bank accounts</td>\r\n<td>Improved awareness and financial capability - how to use financial sources, whom to trust and what information must not be shared</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust - refusal to open bank accounts due to prior experience with the cases of fraud</li>\r\n 	<li>Documentation issues - Documents unavailable in case of migrant members, problems associated with Aadhaar card</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active Banking</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Connecting financial inclusion to education inclusion, health inclusion etc. For example. many families wanted to avail of scholarships for their children upon opening bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Youth /educated member in the family were often consulted for advice on financial matters. Thus, increased efficacy towards digital financial capability among youth would have a positive influence</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Lack of clear value proposition for financial inclusion</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust, particularly amongst women in Bhatta Basti, about the safety of money in bank accounts</li>\r\n 	<li>Low confidence in safekeeping of debit cards and making digital payments</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Digital Payments)</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Awareness about usage and how to keep accounts secure,</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentive</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most did not have smartphones</li>\r\n 	<li>Little awareness, exposure or familiarity with banking and mobile payment operations/ instruments and its perceived complexity</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust in safety associated with digital transactions</li>\r\n 	<li>No interest or motivation in using non-cash modes of payment</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Aspirational imagery of being with the times (mostly youth)</li>\r\n 	<li>Convenience (mostly working men)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network issues - lack of access to internet in many parts of Bhatta Basti</li>\r\n 	<li>Time and distance factor for the process of on-boarding</li>\r\n 	<li>Varied technical glitches and problems</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active usage of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>Adoption of digital payment solutions such as AEPS, UPI etc. by merchants, e-mitras and vendors in Bhatta Basti</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of reliable and consistent network</li>\r\n 	<li>No clear benefit seen over cash payments</li>\r\n 	<li>Absence of regular and trusted merchants and vendors on these platforms</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"5. Designing behavioral nudges and channels to communicate\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Once the gaps and opportunities within each user segment were identified, our efforts were directed towards answering two critical questions: where should the digital financial solutions operate (in the user journey) and what is the value gap that they will address? This is the step at which targeted solutions to address the gaps and the relevant behavioral nudges emerged.</div>\r\n<div>While designing the DFC nudges and choosing various channels for its delivery, we ensured a mix of value propositions for both the merchants as well as the end-consumers – that addressed various stages of adoption. The decision on the channels and the value propositions we communicated were based on –</div>\r\n<div><strong>a. Profile of the target group–</strong> We based our decisions of channels on the knowledge about smartphone ownership and social media usage of the merchants and end-consumers. A majority of the merchants owned a smartphone and had a presence on social media. In Bhatta Basti, less than half of the population owned smartphones.</div>\r\n<div><strong>b. Stage of adoption and triggers/barriers–</strong> Both merchants and end-consumers are at different stages of adoption. While some were open and willing to transact digitally, they did not have the ability; others were not even aware of digital payment options. Therefore, in some cases, the solution needed to increase awareness and invoke interest while, in others, the solutions needed to begin with getting the end-consumer onboarded onto the platform and then take them forward. Further, our communication through these channels was based on the triggers and barriers identified through our field work. An illustration of the triggers and barriers across the dairy merchants’ adoption journey is provided in Table 2.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n\r\nI am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 2: Illustrative information on triggers and barriers identified for adoption of digital payment solutions by dairy merchants</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style></p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged but not adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Value proposition of direct money transfer to bank account increases security and eases services like bill payment, account-to-account money transfer.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perception of digital payments to be an inevitable future.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Technical difficulties of using correct phone version, bank account type, etc.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perceived time and complexity of a digital transaction.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive to undertake extra effort in terms of daily bank visit to digitize income and opportunity cost of time, fuel and business loss.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged and adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer and increased security.</li>\r\n 	<li>Helped retailers in credit building.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of customer interest in digital payments.</li>\r\n 	<li>90% of the non-cash customers use wallets, and show resistance to UPI adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive and opportunity cost of bank visit.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active user</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Allow retailers to pay at convenience with no dependency on distributor’s cash collector.</li>\r\n 	<li>Hassle-free accounting.</li>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network connectivity issues.</li>\r\n 	<li>Commission charges of digital payment service providers diminish the already thin dairy margins.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>c. Familiarity and trust with channel: It is very important to select a channel that the customers are familiar with and trust completely. This is also true of the change agents or influencers who introduce them to the solutions.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Based on the above, the various channels that CATALYST used to communicate value propositions and improve DFC of the customers across ecosystems are presented in the matrix in Figure 4.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 3: Channels used to present DFC value proposition</p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th></th>\r\n<th>eMitras</th>\r\n<th>Dairy</th>\r\n<th>Bhatta Basti</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Merchant-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of eMitra agents</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>IVRS for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of dairy merchants</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Consumer-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentives</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Facebook awareness video</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital mela for awareness and onboarding (with distribution of visual collaterals like comic books, flyers)</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group moderated by change agents of the community</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Toll-free IVRS:\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Since merchants have very little active interest in digital payments right now, channels such as IVRS where they need to call by themselves might not work unless there is a clear incentive or direct link with increase in business. Even at a stage where merchants are ready and willing to access IVRS, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support, with a follow up SMS or WhatsApp message This will serve as a ready reckoner and have the link to a customer support number to pose further queries to.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"WhatsApp group of merchants:\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>We created and moderated a WhatsApp group of 20 merchants with the idea of offering the merchants a platform to share their experiences and challenges with others like them. We used WhatsApp as all the merchants were familiar with and already using the app. It also allowed easy sharing of multimedia such as images, videos, etc. We shared information on the benefits of digital payments such as convenience of instant bank-to-bank transfers, no need for loose change, etc. The idea was to inspire them to go digital and then leave them with a channel that does not require moderation from a third party but is sustainable through their own information sharing. WhatsApp was the merchants’ preferred mode to receive information on digital payments as they use it extensively and find it non-intrusive.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nWhatsApp was the merchants’ preferred mode to receive information on digital payments as they use it extensively and find it non-intrusive.\r\n\r\n<strong>b. What didn’t work?</strong>\r\nLow interest in digital payments from consumers meant low interest among merchants and hence the WhatsApp group did not show much proactive engagement. The merchants informed us that they preferred videos over texts.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Therefore, a merchants’ WhatsApp group has the potential to act as a redressal mechanism as merchants can share their experiences and learn from each other, but it may work only at a later stage of digital payments adoption.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Interpersonal communication and capacity building of merchants:\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]This was done to ensure that the merchants themselves spread awareness about digital payments, explain their benefits and onboard potential users. They were educated on how it would benefit them as well as their consumers and how it was to be done. Merchants were also given collaterals that taught them about the benefits of various payment methods.\r\n\r\n<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nThis was an easy method of conveying the benefits and advantages of adopting digital payments and banking. It also helped address the merchants’ needs to understand the process of onboarding their customers.\r\n\r\n<strong>b. What didn’t work?</strong>\r\nPersonal handholding for every merchant involves a very intensive effort and heavy investment. There is a lot of dependability on the solution providers’ agent and his/her training to be able to make a difference.\r\n\r\nOne of the key learnings was that not all end-consumers view merchants as a trusted source for financial information so merchants might not be the right catalyst for improving DFC of end-consumers.\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"For Consumers (Dairy and eMitra)\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Flyers and interpersonal communication at the point of sales:</strong>\r\n\r\nTo spread awareness about digital payment solutions and their benefits, we placed collaterals on the key value propositions of digital payments at eMitra centers and dairy booths. These were targeted at the digitally-ready audience which would be interested in using digital payments due to the problems of loose change at the dairy booth or the benefit of convenience, in general. They were expected to find the value propositions relevant and ask the merchant for more information. We also provided personal handholding at the dairy booths and eMitra centers to those interested in onboarding onto digital payment solutions. The handholding exercise was undertaken to assist customers with UPI onboarding and to observe and learn from the uptake behavior.\r\n\r\n<strong>Example of a consumer-facing dairy collateral that gives the reasons of using digital payments</strong>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked</strong>\r\nFlyers are a subtle and non-intrusive way of making consumers aware of the presence of digital payment solutions with the merchant. It encouraged digitally-ready consumers to seek more information through the merchant. Personal handholding worked better to onboard people onto the platform as there are still many technological challenges that people face when accessing the solutions on their own, due to which they give up easily.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work</strong>\r\nThose who are not already positively inclined towards digital payments do not pay much attention to flyers, but personal talk makes a difference in convincing them. The majority told us they would be motivated by cash backs and rewards to use digital payments, else they were comfortable with cash and saw no reason to shift.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"For consumers (Bhatta Basti)\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Facebook awareness videos: </strong>\r\n\r\nTo generate initial interest amongst the early adopters of digital payments, we implemented a geo-targeted Facebook campaign in Bhatta Basti to let smartphone users know about digital payments being used in their area and achievements of other people in their communities. These were targeted at youth ambassadors who can influence others in the community and relied on the “network effect” to attract other account holders.\r\n\r\n<strong>a. What worked</strong>\r\nFacebook as a medium turned out to be very cost-effective and targeted, with our campaign reaching over a lakh Facebook users (early adopters of technology) in and around Bhatta Basti.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work</strong>\r\nThe profile of smartphone users became the profile of our campaign; 91 percent of the people reached through the Facebook campaign were men and only 9 percent were women.\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digital mela for consumers across different stages of adoption: \" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Our research indicated that, in an ultra-poor locality such as Bhatta Basti, onboarding customers onto digital payment platforms required the highest degree of in-person handholding, particularly for the initial set of transactions. Hence, it was important to find economical ways of deploying this handholding and our digital mela in Bhatta Basti (in October 2018) was such an attempt. At the mela, we provided two main kinds of services:</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>i. Information about Automated Teller Machine (ATM) PIN generation; and</div>\r\n<div>ii. Handholding support for UPI onboarding (downloading and registering).</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>For spreading awareness about the mela, we identified those youngsters who were already making digital payments and recruited them for our work. We called them ‘Digital Champions’ and they were supposed to encourage and get their peers to the mela. The mela helped build customer capability in an interesting manner through role plays and comic books, etc. We distributed various comic books on ATM pin generation, AEPS and advantages and usage of UPI among people of different ages and with varying levels of digital and financial awareness in Bhatta Basti. (An example of a comic book on UPI is shown below).</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Link to full comic book: UPI full comic book</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nThe \'Digital Champions’ helped us reach out to their peers in their communities in a very targeted and effective way. The digital mela proved to be a good mode of creating awareness and spreading knowledge on UPI services. Sixty-two percent of the attendees said they learnt about the advantages of using UPI and 46 percent said they started transacting using UPI. Comic books were seen as fun and they cut through demographics and gender in their appeal.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work?</strong>\r\nFootfall was male dominated (92 percent) possibly due to the mela being in central market. In order to reach out to more women, a more central location could be chosen. Many felt that the language used in the comic books should have been simpler and easy to understand, and there should have been more pictures and illustrations.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"WhatsApp group for individuals: \" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Over the course of four months, we created and moderated two WhatsApp groups in Bhatta Basti to spread digital financial awareness: one for men and one for women. We realized that we could not have both men and women in the same group due to the cultural context of Bhatta Basti. The WhatsApp group of male members comprised young, early adopters of UPI (whom we called ‘Digital Champions’) while that for females consisted of women in the community (who were at different points in the digital user journey). The Digital Champions were identified as change agents of their community and helped us spread awareness about digital financial inclusion in their community. The WhatsApp group of community women was to encourage the general population of women to discuss their experiences with digital financial services and learn from each other.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nWhatsApp can be successfully used as a redressal mechanism platform and can be a good channel for early adopters.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work?</strong>\r\nBuilding DFC of people at earlier parts of the user journey may require other forms such as personal handholding rather than WhatsApp. One of the most important takeaways for us was that it was crucial to have a moderator for each group who ensured regularity and quality of the content that is being shared. Further, it was crucial to have an incentive structure (value proposition) for the moderator to ensure active participation of all members. One of the problems we faced was sharing of unrelated information and fake news forwards. Having the moderator put together a set of rules and regulations is very important.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>The specific DFC nudges and channels devised by us are detailed under the respective ecosystem sections in this paper.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][kleo_gap][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"6. KEY INSIGHTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM CATALYST’S PILOTS BY STAGES OF ADOPTION\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Initial stage to make customer interested in digital payments – improving customers’ awareness and consideration for digital solutions</strong>[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a.</strong> A major problem that we faced during our experiments was communicating a clear value proposition on digital financial inclusion.\r\n\r\nIn-depth interviews with our customers during pilots suggested that the convenience or speed of making or receiving digital payments is not a big pull for the low- to middle-income class to make a shift from cash to digital. Unless a strong value proposition exists, expecting consumers to make the journey from being aware to actively seeking knowledge and adopting will not happen.\r\n\r\nFor digital financial inclusion to resonate with customers, its “benefits to self” need to be strongly linked with people’s personal aspirations – both merchants’ as well as consumers In the same light, for encouraging digital payments, it is very important for the incentives to be clear and attention-catching, for example, the eMitra incentivization model was found to be too complex to be able to motivate the merchants.\r\n\r\n<strong>b.</strong> One of the biggest barriers to adoption is that there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances. There is also a lack of confidence in the privacy of personal data. Coupled with this is the problem of frauds in urban slum clusters, as we found out in Bhatta Basti where a few people posing as solution providers had robbed people of their money. Similar experiments aimed at improving financial capability of women from low-income segments, such as with the Grameen Foundation,⁷ have shown that the use of a trust-worthy person (a front-line worker in this case), who happens to be an influencer in financial solutions, goes a long way in making women act positively.\r\n\r\nQualitative insights suggest that trust plays a very big factor in financial decisions of any kind including decisions on using digital financial payments. Hence, network analysis, i.e., following one’s friends and family, emerged as one of the most important triggers for digital financial inclusion.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][kleo_button title=\"Download full report\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" position=\"center\" size=\"lg\" type=\"boxed-icon\" special=\"no\" icon=\"download\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"pkirbtn\" icon_custom_background=\"#d11e3c\" icon_custom_text=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=\"footer_area\" text_align=\"center\" type=\"image\" bg_position_horizontal=\"center\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"50px\" padding_bottom=\"50px\" bg_image=\"7886\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_col-sm-offset-0\"][vc_single_image image=\"7888\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#ffffff\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484826151396{margin-top: 35px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CATALYST is an initiative seeded by an alliance between the Government of India &amp; USAID, to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India, especially for small merchants and low-income consumers.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484051069491{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[email-newsletter-plugin]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_icon icon=\"facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CashlessCatalyst/\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"linkedin\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/13221050?trk=tyah&amp;trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A13221050%2Cidx%3A2-1-2%2CtarId%3A1476420479247%2Ctas%3Acashless%20catalyst\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/cashlesscatalys\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"youtube-play\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChuc38_PfawDOu44IfYS4lw\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Using behavioral insights to improve digital financial capability of customers', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '40127-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-01-21 09:17:35', '2019-01-21 09:17:35', '', 40127, 'https://cashlesscatalyst.org/media/40127-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(40244, 23, '2019-01-21 09:20:21', '2019-01-21 09:20:21', '[vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" type=\"image\" enable_parallax=\"false\" parallax_speed=\"0.4\" padding_top=\"110\" padding_bottom=\"0\" bg_image=\"40136\"][vc_column][kleo_gap size=\"100px\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"USING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO IMPROVE DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY (DFC) OF CUSTOMERS: KEY LEARNINGS FROM OUR EXPERIMENTS ACROSS DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:48px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:54px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap size=\"140px\"][kleo_gap size=\"50px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" padding_bottom=\"0\"][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner width=\"5/12\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531456733{padding-right: 0px !important;}\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"][addtoany][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531444909{padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][kleo_button title=\"Print this page\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"custom\" position=\"left\" size=\"lg\" special=\"no\" border=\"no\" icon=\"print\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"grey-icon\" custom_text=\"#d11e3c\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"About CATALYST\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]CATALYST is a user-centric ‘digital financial inclusion innovation platform’ for the underserved last mile. The initiative is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the mSTAR Program, through funding provided to FHI 360. Housed within the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (IFMR LEAD), the initiative aims to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India.CATALYST identifies, develops and validates solution frameworks and business models in collaboration with facilitating government agencies and participating industry solution providers to responsibly transition small business ecosystems (i.e., merchants, consumers, suppliers) from an inefficient cash economy to digital payment platforms, and further onto broader digital finance solutions. CATALYST has also launched a new business incubator, ‘Fintech for the Last Mile,’ to promote entrepreneurs focused on developing innovative digital finance solutions for traditionally underserved segments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"Acknowledgements\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>The authors thank and acknowledge the support of Arbind Vishwakarma,</div>\r\n<div>Deepti KC, Tunisha Kapoor and John Arun for the insights from their respective projects. Thanks also to Harsh Pandey (FHI 360), Jayshree Venkatesan, Ankur Gautam and Preethi Rao for editorial reviews and feedback, and to Badal Malick and Sharon Buteau for their consistent support and encouragement.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n\r\nEvidence suggests that the use of digital financial services can offer benefits such as increased financial transparency, accountability and inclusion. ¹For customers to adopt these solutions, however, it is very important that they see value in these solutions and have the ability and willingness to change their existing habit. This paper elaborates our learnings from experiments deployed by us to improve the uptake of digital payments and promote digital financial inclusion of the population. Some key insights from our field work and interactions with stakeholders include:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Both the end-consumers and the merchants aren’t proactively looking for digital financial solutions, so the hook to adopt these will have to be very strong. It must be a solution that meets a specific personal need for it to be relevant.</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital financial services are seen as a ‘double-edged sword’ - While majority agree that digital payments and services are convenient and helpful, there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances and lack of confidence in their data being kept private. It is very important for the solutions, communication channels and influencers to be trust-worthy to drive adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Another aspect that is critical to build customers’ trust is seamless alignment of solutions with emerging technologies. Currently, there are many teething problems with some of the nascent technologies that use UPI or AEPS. If solution providers cannot fix these issues, these liabilities should be clearly defined and communicated to the customers – so that there is no lack of trust later.</li>\r\n 	<li>Adoption of digital financial services is directly proportional to a customer’s familiarity with technology and his/her state of financial inclusion. Taking a low-income individuals on the route to digital financial inclusion, who may or may not have bank accounts to begin with, is a long-drawn process requiring sustained interventions. It is therefore important to first identify the early adopters - example someone who is actively banking and has a smartphone -as they will be more open to change. Once onboarded, they can be the change-agents in networks where they are trusted.</li>\r\n 	<li>Merchants are ready and willing to offer any digital payment solution that the consumers ask for, but the push must be driven by consumers’ demand for it so that it improves their business. Therefore, the initial capability focus for the solution providers should be end-consumers as it is their interest and intent that will decide the merchants’ interest.</li>\r\n 	<li>Taking financial decisions is, in general, perceived to be a complex task – especially by women where they pass on the task to men of the household. There could be various societal norms at play here, but it is very important to take out the complexity from matters related to money. Simple digital solutions can help boost confidence of women and others who might be finding financial decisions complex, in general, and address this need for simplicity in finance.</li>\r\n 	<li>Once people convert to digital payments, they sustain this behavior easily. It requires substantial time and effort to communicate benefits and handhold a consumer to onboard a new digital payments platform. However, once they are onboarded and have personally experienced the convenience of digital payment solutions, people continue to use them.</li>\r\n 	<li>Integrated digital financial inclusion programs should focus on the entire cycle from awareness to sustained change with a specific solution at every step.</li>\r\n 	<li>Finally, to communicate various value propositions and build digital financial capabilities of customers, CATALYST used different channels to reach out to them. We found that a mix of social media and interpersonal channels is important to reach different profiles of people (youth, working men, self-employed women, housewives) who would be at different stages of the adoption curve. For merchants, since they have little active interest in digital payments currently, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<a href=\"http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution\">http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution</a>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1: The adoption continuum and learnings</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40152\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#373b3c\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40100\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"2. WHAT IS DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>Financial capability is defined as ‘the combination of knowledge,</div>\r\n<div>skills, attitudes, and behaviors a person needs to make sound financial decisions. ³We defined digital financial capability as the ability and willingness of the customers to use digital financial services. The key levers that we tried to impact through our work were awareness and knowledge of various options available, how to use the service, attitude towards the service (i.e. willingness), using the service and finally repeated use (sustained behavior and advocacy).</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 2: Levers of DFC</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40160\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>In isolation, while digital financial literacy shifts the responsibility onto consumers to decide for themselves and to act on the available options, DFC handholds consumers to the last mile by building their capacity to act as well as providing clear opportunities to do so. With the DFC approach, our intent was to convert people’s knowledge into action.  It is not just about making them aware; it is about filling the huge gap between awareness and action by providing specific end-to-end solutions throughout the adoption journey.</div>\r\n<div>To change the sticky behavior of using cash, people do not just need to be educated about alternative solutions but also need clear answers to ‘why they should change’ and ‘how they should change,’ i.e., they need to have a value proposition or a nudge that will propel them to drop a habit. While ‘why’ will drive their willingness, the ‘how’ will increase their ability to transact.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<a href=\"http://³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf\">³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf</a>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40101\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"3. ECOSYSTEMS WHERE WE DEPLOYED DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY EXPERIMENTS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]We first identified the ecosystems wherein digitization could solve the existing problems by bringing about behavior change.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dairy: </strong> A small-value daily purchase such as milk – which involves a number of stakeholders in the supply chain to finally bring milk to the end-consumer – presented a great opportunity for large-scale behavior change. There were four key players we could influence for behavior change across the dairy supply chain: Jaipur Dairy (supplying dairy products under the brand name Saras); dairy distributors; retailers at the booths; and end-consumers. Jaipur Dairy was already accepting payments digitally from distributors, allowing settlement only through bank transfers or checks. This meant that the distributor had to digitize the cash that s/he collected from the retailer; her/his cash collection agent would collect cash from all the retailers and then the distributor would visit banks multiple times to deposit it. There was also the problem of loose change during point-of-sales transactions and the risk of theft from cash collection agents. Digitization of payments along this supply chain from Jaipur Dairy to the end-consumer could resolve all these problems. Details of our work in the dairy ecosystem are presented in Annex 1b.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMitra: </strong> eMitra is an e-governance platform offered by the Government of Rajasthan that provides 387 government to customer (G2C) and customer to business (C2B) services such as electricity or water bill payments to its citizens. Rajasthan has over 52,000 physical eMitra centers across the state of which approximately 5,000 operate in Jaipur. Any eMitra entrepreneur must deposit an upfront amount of INR 1 lakh with the government to start providing these services to customers. Given that 98 percent of these transactions are made in cash by end-consumers means that the eMitra entrepreneurs face the burden of high initial working capital and loss of business when they are busy with bank visits to digitize their cash. Once we identified these challenges, we wanted to create an enabling environment for end-consumers to pay digitally for eMitra services. Details of our work in the eMitra ecosystem are presented in Annex 1c.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bhatta Basti: </strong> In this migrant slum cluster, to understand the target population and assess their financial needs, CATALYST conducted a survey with randomly selected 442 low-income households in August 2017.⁴ The study indicated useful statistics such as the majority of the bank account holders in Bhatta Basti were male heads of the family; only about 39 percent of the primary earners had any kind of savings; people largely relied on cash-based payments; and a mere 6 percent of the households had any information on digital payments. This highlighted the need for a step-wise approach to first educate consumers about the basic tenets of account opening, help open accounts for use, and then introduce them to the concept of digital financial payments and solutions. Details of our work in the Bhatta Basti ecosystem are presented in Annex 1a.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 3: Key demographics from Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40168\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For each of these ecosystems, we first mapped the journeys of our customers from awareness to adoption and identified triggers and barriers to then design value propositions and channels to influence their behavior.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For more on the survey, check  <a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/</a></div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]Catalyst conducted a survey⁵ in Jaipur that revealed that over two-fifths of the merchants surveyed had tried some form of digital payments. However, only a third reported sustained use, a fraction of the overall volumes. The most popular payment service was closed loop wallets, chosen by nearly three-fourths of those surveyed. A little less than a third used cards, and about 25 percent used internet banking. Only 8 percent of overall customer transactions by value were executed digitally. Merchants stated a low customer demand as the biggest reason for not using digital payment solutions, followed by a lack of awareness and the fear of being cheated in that order.⁶[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<div>These survey findings were in line with common knowledge in this domain that</div>\r\n<div>barriers to adoption of digital financial services are in abundance, more so among the poor in India. Use of cash for payments is a particularly sticky habit, one that has witnessed resurgence after seeing a slight dip in the demonetization aftermath. Several situational and behavioral factors play a role here. Through extensive desk research and our work across various use-cases, we identified the following key barriers to adoption of digital financial services -</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>habit of using cash and inertia towards non-cash methods</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of compelling value propositions to change</li>\r\n 	<li>limited access to mobile phones and the internet coupled with infrastructural barriers such as poor network connectivity and irregular electricity</li>\r\n 	<li>low levels of digital literacy and perceived complexity of using digital platforms</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of trust in digital services, with fears of fraud and hidden charges;</li>\r\n 	<li>limited acceptance of digital infrastructure by local merchants is both an access and usage barrier. This is often common with new consumers, especially when the interface is cumbersome, or the transaction experience is not smooth owing to poor connectivity or confusing instructions. During the initial trial phase, trust placed in the platform is quickly revoked and the customer reverts to cash.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Active field work and continuous monitoring of data enabled identification of key focus areas, and factors that were working and non working in improving DFC in each of the ecosystems. For illustrative purposes, we have listed in Table 1 the key triggers and barriers at every step of the journey that led to the DFC nudges in Bhatta Basti. More details of our work in Bhatta Basti can be found in Annex 1a.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]⁵See: Mapping the Merchant’s Mind: An analysis of digital payments behaviors by fixed store merchants in Jaipur, Malick, Badal and Rajesh Shukla, PRICE-Catalyst report 2018 &lt;<a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf</a>&gt;⁶ Price-CATALYST report 2018, Malick, B. and R. Shukla, ibid.\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 1: Illustrative box on triggers and barriers identified for digital financial inclusion journey in Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n\r\n<style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Bank Accounts)</td>\r\n<td>Value propositions of benefits and advantages of savings and banking</td>\r\n<td>Little awareness about benefits of savings and bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of bank accounts</td>\r\n<td>Improved awareness and financial capability - how to use financial sources, whom to trust and what information must not be shared</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust - refusal to open bank accounts due to prior experience with the cases of fraud</li>\r\n 	<li>Documentation issues - Documents unavailable in case of migrant members, problems associated with Aadhaar card</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active Banking</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Connecting financial inclusion to education inclusion, health inclusion etc. For example. many families wanted to avail of scholarships for their children upon opening bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Youth /educated member in the family were often consulted for advice on financial matters. Thus, increased efficacy towards digital financial capability among youth would have a positive influence</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Lack of clear value proposition for financial inclusion</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust, particularly amongst women in Bhatta Basti, about the safety of money in bank accounts</li>\r\n 	<li>Low confidence in safekeeping of debit cards and making digital payments</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Digital Payments)</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Awareness about usage and how to keep accounts secure,</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentive</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most did not have smartphones</li>\r\n 	<li>Little awareness, exposure or familiarity with banking and mobile payment operations/ instruments and its perceived complexity</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust in safety associated with digital transactions</li>\r\n 	<li>No interest or motivation in using non-cash modes of payment</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Aspirational imagery of being with the times (mostly youth)</li>\r\n 	<li>Convenience (mostly working men)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network issues - lack of access to internet in many parts of Bhatta Basti</li>\r\n 	<li>Time and distance factor for the process of on-boarding</li>\r\n 	<li>Varied technical glitches and problems</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active usage of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>Adoption of digital payment solutions such as AEPS, UPI etc. by merchants, e-mitras and vendors in Bhatta Basti</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of reliable and consistent network</li>\r\n 	<li>No clear benefit seen over cash payments</li>\r\n 	<li>Absence of regular and trusted merchants and vendors on these platforms</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"5. Designing behavioral nudges and channels to communicate\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Once the gaps and opportunities within each user segment were identified, our efforts were directed towards answering two critical questions: where should the digital financial solutions operate (in the user journey) and what is the value gap that they will address? This is the step at which targeted solutions to address the gaps and the relevant behavioral nudges emerged.</div>\r\n<div>While designing the DFC nudges and choosing various channels for its delivery, we ensured a mix of value propositions for both the merchants as well as the end-consumers – that addressed various stages of adoption. The decision on the channels and the value propositions we communicated were based on –</div>\r\n<div><strong>a. Profile of the target group–</strong> We based our decisions of channels on the knowledge about smartphone ownership and social media usage of the merchants and end-consumers. A majority of the merchants owned a smartphone and had a presence on social media. In Bhatta Basti, less than half of the population owned smartphones.</div>\r\n<div><strong>b. Stage of adoption and triggers/barriers–</strong> Both merchants and end-consumers are at different stages of adoption. While some were open and willing to transact digitally, they did not have the ability; others were not even aware of digital payment options. Therefore, in some cases, the solution needed to increase awareness and invoke interest while, in others, the solutions needed to begin with getting the end-consumer onboarded onto the platform and then take them forward. Further, our communication through these channels was based on the triggers and barriers identified through our field work. An illustration of the triggers and barriers across the dairy merchants’ adoption journey is provided in Table 2.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n\r\nI am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 2: Illustrative information on triggers and barriers identified for adoption of digital payment solutions by dairy merchants</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style></p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged but not adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Value proposition of direct money transfer to bank account increases security and eases services like bill payment, account-to-account money transfer.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perception of digital payments to be an inevitable future.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Technical difficulties of using correct phone version, bank account type, etc.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perceived time and complexity of a digital transaction.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive to undertake extra effort in terms of daily bank visit to digitize income and opportunity cost of time, fuel and business loss.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged and adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer and increased security.</li>\r\n 	<li>Helped retailers in credit building.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of customer interest in digital payments.</li>\r\n 	<li>90% of the non-cash customers use wallets, and show resistance to UPI adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive and opportunity cost of bank visit.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active user</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Allow retailers to pay at convenience with no dependency on distributor’s cash collector.</li>\r\n 	<li>Hassle-free accounting.</li>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network connectivity issues.</li>\r\n 	<li>Commission charges of digital payment service providers diminish the already thin dairy margins.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>c. Familiarity and trust with channel: It is very important to select a channel that the customers are familiar with and trust completely. This is also true of the change agents or influencers who introduce them to the solutions.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Based on the above, the various channels that CATALYST used to communicate value propositions and improve DFC of the customers across ecosystems are presented in the matrix in Figure 4.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 3: Channels used to present DFC value proposition</p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th></th>\r\n<th>eMitras</th>\r\n<th>Dairy</th>\r\n<th>Bhatta Basti</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Merchant-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of eMitra agents</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>IVRS for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of dairy merchants</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Consumer-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentives</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Facebook awareness video</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital mela for awareness and onboarding (with distribution of visual collaterals like comic books, flyers)</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group moderated by change agents of the community</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Toll-free IVRS:\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Since merchants have very little active interest in digital payments right now, channels such as IVRS where they need to call by themselves might not work unless there is a clear incentive or direct link with increase in business. Even at a stage where merchants are ready and willing to access IVRS, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support, with a follow up SMS or WhatsApp message This will serve as a ready reckoner and have the link to a customer support number to pose further queries to.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"WhatsApp group of merchants:\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>We created and moderated a WhatsApp group of 20 merchants with the idea of offering the merchants a platform to share their experiences and challenges with others like them. We used WhatsApp as all the merchants were familiar with and already using the app. It also allowed easy sharing of multimedia such as images, videos, etc. We shared information on the benefits of digital payments such as convenience of instant bank-to-bank transfers, no need for loose change, etc. The idea was to inspire them to go digital and then leave them with a channel that does not require moderation from a third party but is sustainable through their own information sharing. WhatsApp was the merchants’ preferred mode to receive information on digital payments as they use it extensively and find it non-intrusive.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nWhatsApp was the merchants’ preferred mode to receive information on digital payments as they use it extensively and find it non-intrusive.\r\n\r\n<strong>b. What didn’t work?</strong>\r\nLow interest in digital payments from consumers meant low interest among merchants and hence the WhatsApp group did not show much proactive engagement. The merchants informed us that they preferred videos over texts.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Therefore, a merchants’ WhatsApp group has the potential to act as a redressal mechanism as merchants can share their experiences and learn from each other, but it may work only at a later stage of digital payments adoption.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Interpersonal communication and capacity building of merchants:\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]This was done to ensure that the merchants themselves spread awareness about digital payments, explain their benefits and onboard potential users. They were educated on how it would benefit them as well as their consumers and how it was to be done. Merchants were also given collaterals that taught them about the benefits of various payment methods.\r\n\r\n<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nThis was an easy method of conveying the benefits and advantages of adopting digital payments and banking. It also helped address the merchants’ needs to understand the process of onboarding their customers.\r\n\r\n<strong>b. What didn’t work?</strong>\r\nPersonal handholding for every merchant involves a very intensive effort and heavy investment. There is a lot of dependability on the solution providers’ agent and his/her training to be able to make a difference.\r\n\r\nOne of the key learnings was that not all end-consumers view merchants as a trusted source for financial information so merchants might not be the right catalyst for improving DFC of end-consumers.\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"For Consumers (Dairy and eMitra)\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Flyers and interpersonal communication at the point of sales:</strong>\r\n\r\nTo spread awareness about digital payment solutions and their benefits, we placed collaterals on the key value propositions of digital payments at eMitra centers and dairy booths. These were targeted at the digitally-ready audience which would be interested in using digital payments due to the problems of loose change at the dairy booth or the benefit of convenience, in general. They were expected to find the value propositions relevant and ask the merchant for more information. We also provided personal handholding at the dairy booths and eMitra centers to those interested in onboarding onto digital payment solutions. The handholding exercise was undertaken to assist customers with UPI onboarding and to observe and learn from the uptake behavior.\r\n\r\n<strong>Example of a consumer-facing dairy collateral that gives the reasons of using digital payments</strong>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked</strong>\r\nFlyers are a subtle and non-intrusive way of making consumers aware of the presence of digital payment solutions with the merchant. It encouraged digitally-ready consumers to seek more information through the merchant. Personal handholding worked better to onboard people onto the platform as there are still many technological challenges that people face when accessing the solutions on their own, due to which they give up easily.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work</strong>\r\nThose who are not already positively inclined towards digital payments do not pay much attention to flyers, but personal talk makes a difference in convincing them. The majority told us they would be motivated by cash backs and rewards to use digital payments, else they were comfortable with cash and saw no reason to shift.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"For consumers (Bhatta Basti)\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Facebook awareness videos: </strong>\r\n\r\nTo generate initial interest amongst the early adopters of digital payments, we implemented a geo-targeted Facebook campaign in Bhatta Basti to let smartphone users know about digital payments being used in their area and achievements of other people in their communities. These were targeted at youth ambassadors who can influence others in the community and relied on the “network effect” to attract other account holders.\r\n\r\n<strong>a. What worked</strong>\r\nFacebook as a medium turned out to be very cost-effective and targeted, with our campaign reaching over a lakh Facebook users (early adopters of technology) in and around Bhatta Basti.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work</strong>\r\nThe profile of smartphone users became the profile of our campaign; 91 percent of the people reached through the Facebook campaign were men and only 9 percent were women.\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digital mela for consumers across different stages of adoption: \" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Our research indicated that, in an ultra-poor locality such as Bhatta Basti, onboarding customers onto digital payment platforms required the highest degree of in-person handholding, particularly for the initial set of transactions. Hence, it was important to find economical ways of deploying this handholding and our digital mela in Bhatta Basti (in October 2018) was such an attempt. At the mela, we provided two main kinds of services:</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>i. Information about Automated Teller Machine (ATM) PIN generation; and</div>\r\n<div>ii. Handholding support for UPI onboarding (downloading and registering).</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>For spreading awareness about the mela, we identified those youngsters who were already making digital payments and recruited them for our work. We called them ‘Digital Champions’ and they were supposed to encourage and get their peers to the mela. The mela helped build customer capability in an interesting manner through role plays and comic books, etc. We distributed various comic books on ATM pin generation, AEPS and advantages and usage of UPI among people of different ages and with varying levels of digital and financial awareness in Bhatta Basti. (An example of a comic book on UPI is shown below).</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Link to full comic book: UPI full comic book</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nThe \'Digital Champions’ helped us reach out to their peers in their communities in a very targeted and effective way. The digital mela proved to be a good mode of creating awareness and spreading knowledge on UPI services. Sixty-two percent of the attendees said they learnt about the advantages of using UPI and 46 percent said they started transacting using UPI. Comic books were seen as fun and they cut through demographics and gender in their appeal.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work?</strong>\r\nFootfall was male dominated (92 percent) possibly due to the mela being in central market. In order to reach out to more women, a more central location could be chosen. Many felt that the language used in the comic books should have been simpler and easy to understand, and there should have been more pictures and illustrations.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"WhatsApp group for individuals: \" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Over the course of four months, we created and moderated two WhatsApp groups in Bhatta Basti to spread digital financial awareness: one for men and one for women. We realized that we could not have both men and women in the same group due to the cultural context of Bhatta Basti. The WhatsApp group of male members comprised young, early adopters of UPI (whom we called ‘Digital Champions’) while that for females consisted of women in the community (who were at different points in the digital user journey). The Digital Champions were identified as change agents of their community and helped us spread awareness about digital financial inclusion in their community. The WhatsApp group of community women was to encourage the general population of women to discuss their experiences with digital financial services and learn from each other.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nWhatsApp can be successfully used as a redressal mechanism platform and can be a good channel for early adopters.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work?</strong>\r\nBuilding DFC of people at earlier parts of the user journey may require other forms such as personal handholding rather than WhatsApp. One of the most important takeaways for us was that it was crucial to have a moderator for each group who ensured regularity and quality of the content that is being shared. Further, it was crucial to have an incentive structure (value proposition) for the moderator to ensure active participation of all members. One of the problems we faced was sharing of unrelated information and fake news forwards. Having the moderator put together a set of rules and regulations is very important.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>The specific DFC nudges and channels devised by us are detailed under the respective ecosystem sections in this paper.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][kleo_gap][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"6. KEY INSIGHTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM CATALYST’S PILOTS BY STAGES OF ADOPTION\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Initial stage to make customer interested in digital payments – improving customers’ awareness and consideration for digital solutions</strong>[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a.</strong> A major problem that we faced during our experiments was communicating a clear value proposition on digital financial inclusion.\r\n\r\nIn-depth interviews with our customers during pilots suggested that the convenience or speed of making or receiving digital payments is not a big pull for the low- to middle-income class to make a shift from cash to digital. Unless a strong value proposition exists, expecting consumers to make the journey from being aware to actively seeking knowledge and adopting will not happen.\r\n\r\nFor digital financial inclusion to resonate with customers, its “benefits to self” need to be strongly linked with people’s personal aspirations – both merchants’ as well as consumers In the same light, for encouraging digital payments, it is very important for the incentives to be clear and attention-catching, for example, the eMitra incentivization model was found to be too complex to be able to motivate the merchants.\r\n\r\n<strong>b.</strong> One of the biggest barriers to adoption is that there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances. There is also a lack of confidence in the privacy of personal data. Coupled with this is the problem of frauds in urban slum clusters, as we found out in Bhatta Basti where a few people posing as solution providers had robbed people of their money. Similar experiments aimed at improving financial capability of women from low-income segments, such as with the Grameen Foundation,⁷ have shown that the use of a trust-worthy person (a front-line worker in this case), who happens to be an influencer in financial solutions, goes a long way in making women act positively.\r\n\r\nQualitative insights suggest that trust plays a very big factor in financial decisions of any kind including decisions on using digital financial payments. Hence, network analysis, i.e., following one’s friends and family, emerged as one of the most important triggers for digital financial inclusion.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][kleo_button title=\"Download full report\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" position=\"center\" size=\"lg\" type=\"boxed-icon\" special=\"no\" icon=\"download\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"pkirbtn\" icon_custom_background=\"#d11e3c\" icon_custom_text=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=\"footer_area\" text_align=\"center\" type=\"image\" bg_position_horizontal=\"center\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"50px\" padding_bottom=\"50px\" bg_image=\"7886\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_col-sm-offset-0\"][vc_single_image image=\"7888\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#ffffff\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484826151396{margin-top: 35px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CATALYST is an initiative seeded by an alliance between the Government of India &amp; USAID, to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India, especially for small merchants and low-income consumers.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484051069491{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[email-newsletter-plugin]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_icon icon=\"facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CashlessCatalyst/\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"linkedin\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/13221050?trk=tyah&amp;trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A13221050%2Cidx%3A2-1-2%2CtarId%3A1476420479247%2Ctas%3Acashless%20catalyst\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/cashlesscatalys\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"youtube-play\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChuc38_PfawDOu44IfYS4lw\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Using behavioral insights to improve digital financial capability of customers', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '40127-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-01-21 09:20:21', '2019-01-21 09:20:21', '', 40127, 'https://cashlesscatalyst.org/media/40127-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(40245, 23, '2019-01-21 09:21:39', '2019-01-21 09:21:39', '[vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" type=\"image\" enable_parallax=\"false\" parallax_speed=\"0.4\" padding_top=\"110\" padding_bottom=\"0\" bg_image=\"40136\"][vc_column][kleo_gap size=\"100px\"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2/3\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"USING BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS TO IMPROVE DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY (DFC) OF CUSTOMERS: KEY LEARNINGS FROM OUR EXPERIMENTS ACROSS DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:48px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:54px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/6\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap size=\"140px\"][kleo_gap size=\"50px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\" padding_bottom=\"0\"][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner width=\"5/12\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/3\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531456733{padding-right: 0px !important;}\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"][addtoany][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1488531444909{padding-left: 0px !important;}\"][kleo_button title=\"Print this page\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"custom\" position=\"left\" size=\"lg\" special=\"no\" border=\"no\" icon=\"print\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"grey-icon\" custom_text=\"#d11e3c\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=\"About CATALYST\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]CATALYST is a user-centric ‘digital financial inclusion innovation platform’ for the underserved last mile. The initiative is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the mSTAR Program, through funding provided to FHI 360. Housed within the Institute for Financial Management and Research, Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (IFMR LEAD), the initiative aims to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India.CATALYST identifies, develops and validates solution frameworks and business models in collaboration with facilitating government agencies and participating industry solution providers to responsibly transition small business ecosystems (i.e., merchants, consumers, suppliers) from an inefficient cash economy to digital payment platforms, and further onto broader digital finance solutions. CATALYST has also launched a new business incubator, ‘Fintech for the Last Mile,’ to promote entrepreneurs focused on developing innovative digital finance solutions for traditionally underserved segments.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"Acknowledgements\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_row_inner css=\".vc_custom_1537456868816{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>The authors thank and acknowledge the support of Arbind Vishwakarma,</div>\r\n<div>Deepti KC, Tunisha Kapoor and John Arun for the insights from their respective projects. Thanks also to Harsh Pandey (FHI 360), Jayshree Venkatesan, Ankur Gautam and Preethi Rao for editorial reviews and feedback, and to Badal Malick and Sharon Buteau for their consistent support and encouragement.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n\r\nEvidence suggests that the use of digital financial services can offer benefits such as increased financial transparency, accountability and inclusion. ¹For customers to adopt these solutions, however, it is very important that they see value in these solutions and have the ability and willingness to change their existing habit. This paper elaborates our learnings from experiments deployed by us to improve the uptake of digital payments and promote digital financial inclusion of the population. Some key insights from our field work and interactions with stakeholders include:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Both the end-consumers and the merchants aren’t proactively looking for digital financial solutions, so the hook to adopt these will have to be very strong. It must be a solution that meets a specific personal need for it to be relevant.</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital financial services are seen as a ‘double-edged sword’ - While majority agree that digital payments and services are convenient and helpful, there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances and lack of confidence in their data being kept private. It is very important for the solutions, communication channels and influencers to be trust-worthy to drive adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Another aspect that is critical to build customers’ trust is seamless alignment of solutions with emerging technologies. Currently, there are many teething problems with some of the nascent technologies that use UPI or AEPS. If solution providers cannot fix these issues, these liabilities should be clearly defined and communicated to the customers – so that there is no lack of trust later.</li>\r\n 	<li>Adoption of digital financial services is directly proportional to a customer’s familiarity with technology and his/her state of financial inclusion. Taking a low-income individuals on the route to digital financial inclusion, who may or may not have bank accounts to begin with, is a long-drawn process requiring sustained interventions. It is therefore important to first identify the early adopters - example someone who is actively banking and has a smartphone -as they will be more open to change. Once onboarded, they can be the change-agents in networks where they are trusted.</li>\r\n 	<li>Merchants are ready and willing to offer any digital payment solution that the consumers ask for, but the push must be driven by consumers’ demand for it so that it improves their business. Therefore, the initial capability focus for the solution providers should be end-consumers as it is their interest and intent that will decide the merchants’ interest.</li>\r\n 	<li>Taking financial decisions is, in general, perceived to be a complex task – especially by women where they pass on the task to men of the household. There could be various societal norms at play here, but it is very important to take out the complexity from matters related to money. Simple digital solutions can help boost confidence of women and others who might be finding financial decisions complex, in general, and address this need for simplicity in finance.</li>\r\n 	<li>Once people convert to digital payments, they sustain this behavior easily. It requires substantial time and effort to communicate benefits and handhold a consumer to onboard a new digital payments platform. However, once they are onboarded and have personally experienced the convenience of digital payment solutions, people continue to use them.</li>\r\n 	<li>Integrated digital financial inclusion programs should focus on the entire cycle from awareness to sustained change with a specific solution at every step.</li>\r\n 	<li>Finally, to communicate various value propositions and build digital financial capabilities of customers, CATALYST used different channels to reach out to them. We found that a mix of social media and interpersonal channels is important to reach different profiles of people (youth, working men, self-employed women, housewives) who would be at different stages of the adoption curve. For merchants, since they have little active interest in digital payments currently, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<a href=\"http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution\">http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/332881525873182837/The-Global-Findex-Database-2017-Measuring-Financial-Inclusion-and-the-Fintech-Revolution</a>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 1: The adoption continuum and learnings</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40152\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#373b3c\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40100\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"2. WHAT IS DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]\r\n<div>Financial capability is defined as ‘the combination of knowledge,</div>\r\n<div>skills, attitudes, and behaviors a person needs to make sound financial decisions. ³We defined digital financial capability as the ability and willingness of the customers to use digital financial services. The key levers that we tried to impact through our work were awareness and knowledge of various options available, how to use the service, attitude towards the service (i.e. willingness), using the service and finally repeated use (sustained behavior and advocacy).</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 2: Levers of DFC</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40160\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>In isolation, while digital financial literacy shifts the responsibility onto consumers to decide for themselves and to act on the available options, DFC handholds consumers to the last mile by building their capacity to act as well as providing clear opportunities to do so. With the DFC approach, our intent was to convert people’s knowledge into action.  It is not just about making them aware; it is about filling the huge gap between awareness and action by providing specific end-to-end solutions throughout the adoption journey.</div>\r\n<div>To change the sticky behavior of using cash, people do not just need to be educated about alternative solutions but also need clear answers to ‘why they should change’ and ‘how they should change,’ i.e., they need to have a value proposition or a nudge that will propel them to drop a habit. While ‘why’ will drive their willingness, the ‘how’ will increase their ability to transact.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<a href=\"http://³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf\">³ http://content.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/wp content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/CFI_Brief_005_Banking_Sector_Approaches_05-29-2018.pdf</a>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40101\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"3. ECOSYSTEMS WHERE WE DEPLOYED DIGITAL FINANCIAL CAPABILITY EXPERIMENTS\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]We first identified the ecosystems wherein digitization could solve the existing problems by bringing about behavior change.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dairy: </strong> A small-value daily purchase such as milk – which involves a number of stakeholders in the supply chain to finally bring milk to the end-consumer – presented a great opportunity for large-scale behavior change. There were four key players we could influence for behavior change across the dairy supply chain: Jaipur Dairy (supplying dairy products under the brand name Saras); dairy distributors; retailers at the booths; and end-consumers. Jaipur Dairy was already accepting payments digitally from distributors, allowing settlement only through bank transfers or checks. This meant that the distributor had to digitize the cash that s/he collected from the retailer; her/his cash collection agent would collect cash from all the retailers and then the distributor would visit banks multiple times to deposit it. There was also the problem of loose change during point-of-sales transactions and the risk of theft from cash collection agents. Digitization of payments along this supply chain from Jaipur Dairy to the end-consumer could resolve all these problems. Details of our work in the dairy ecosystem are presented in Annex 1b.\r\n\r\n<strong>EMitra: </strong> eMitra is an e-governance platform offered by the Government of Rajasthan that provides 387 government to customer (G2C) and customer to business (C2B) services such as electricity or water bill payments to its citizens. Rajasthan has over 52,000 physical eMitra centers across the state of which approximately 5,000 operate in Jaipur. Any eMitra entrepreneur must deposit an upfront amount of INR 1 lakh with the government to start providing these services to customers. Given that 98 percent of these transactions are made in cash by end-consumers means that the eMitra entrepreneurs face the burden of high initial working capital and loss of business when they are busy with bank visits to digitize their cash. Once we identified these challenges, we wanted to create an enabling environment for end-consumers to pay digitally for eMitra services. Details of our work in the eMitra ecosystem are presented in Annex 1c.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bhatta Basti: </strong> In this migrant slum cluster, to understand the target population and assess their financial needs, CATALYST conducted a survey with randomly selected 442 low-income households in August 2017.⁴ The study indicated useful statistics such as the majority of the bank account holders in Bhatta Basti were male heads of the family; only about 39 percent of the primary earners had any kind of savings; people largely relied on cash-based payments; and a mere 6 percent of the households had any information on digital payments. This highlighted the need for a step-wise approach to first educate consumers about the basic tenets of account opening, help open accounts for use, and then introduce them to the concept of digital financial payments and solutions. Details of our work in the Bhatta Basti ecosystem are presented in Annex 1a.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Figure 3: Key demographics from Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\"40168\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For each of these ecosystems, we first mapped the journeys of our customers from awareness to adoption and identified triggers and barriers to then design value propositions and channels to influence their behavior.</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>For more on the survey, check  <a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/</a></div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"4. UNDERSTANDING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS, TRIGGERS AND BARRIERS TO ADOPTION OF DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"normal-style\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#383b3b\" font_size=\"16px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"lh22 ptext-justify\"]Catalyst conducted a survey⁵ in Jaipur that revealed that over two-fifths of the merchants surveyed had tried some form of digital payments. However, only a third reported sustained use, a fraction of the overall volumes. The most popular payment service was closed loop wallets, chosen by nearly three-fourths of those surveyed. A little less than a third used cards, and about 25 percent used internet banking. Only 8 percent of overall customer transactions by value were executed digitally. Merchants stated a low customer demand as the biggest reason for not using digital payment solutions, followed by a lack of awareness and the fear of being cheated in that order.⁶[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<div>These survey findings were in line with common knowledge in this domain that</div>\r\n<div>barriers to adoption of digital financial services are in abundance, more so among the poor in India. Use of cash for payments is a particularly sticky habit, one that has witnessed resurgence after seeing a slight dip in the demonetization aftermath. Several situational and behavioral factors play a role here. Through extensive desk research and our work across various use-cases, we identified the following key barriers to adoption of digital financial services -</div>\r\n<div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>habit of using cash and inertia towards non-cash methods</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of compelling value propositions to change</li>\r\n 	<li>limited access to mobile phones and the internet coupled with infrastructural barriers such as poor network connectivity and irregular electricity</li>\r\n 	<li>low levels of digital literacy and perceived complexity of using digital platforms</li>\r\n 	<li>lack of trust in digital services, with fears of fraud and hidden charges;</li>\r\n 	<li>limited acceptance of digital infrastructure by local merchants is both an access and usage barrier. This is often common with new consumers, especially when the interface is cumbersome, or the transaction experience is not smooth owing to poor connectivity or confusing instructions. During the initial trial phase, trust placed in the platform is quickly revoked and the customer reverts to cash.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Active field work and continuous monitoring of data enabled identification of key focus areas, and factors that were working and non working in improving DFC in each of the ecosystems. For illustrative purposes, we have listed in Table 1 the key triggers and barriers at every step of the journey that led to the DFC nudges in Bhatta Basti. More details of our work in Bhatta Basti can be found in Annex 1a.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]⁵See: Mapping the Merchant’s Mind: An analysis of digital payments behaviors by fixed store merchants in Jaipur, Malick, Badal and Rajesh Shukla, PRICE-Catalyst report 2018 &lt;<a href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf\">https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Price-Report-Short-20-June-edited-min.pdf</a>&gt;⁶ Price-CATALYST report 2018, Malick, B. and R. Shukla, ibid.\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 1: Illustrative box on triggers and barriers identified for digital financial inclusion journey in Bhatta Basti</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n\r\n<style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Bank Accounts)</td>\r\n<td>Value propositions of benefits and advantages of savings and banking</td>\r\n<td>Little awareness about benefits of savings and bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of bank accounts</td>\r\n<td>Improved awareness and financial capability - how to use financial sources, whom to trust and what information must not be shared</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust - refusal to open bank accounts due to prior experience with the cases of fraud</li>\r\n 	<li>Documentation issues - Documents unavailable in case of migrant members, problems associated with Aadhaar card</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active Banking</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Connecting financial inclusion to education inclusion, health inclusion etc. For example. many families wanted to avail of scholarships for their children upon opening bank accounts</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Youth /educated member in the family were often consulted for advice on financial matters. Thus, increased efficacy towards digital financial capability among youth would have a positive influence</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>Lack of clear value proposition for financial inclusion</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust, particularly amongst women in Bhatta Basti, about the safety of money in bank accounts</li>\r\n 	<li>Low confidence in safekeeping of debit cards and making digital payments</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Awareness and Consideration (Digital Payments)</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Awareness about usage and how to keep accounts secure,</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentive</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Most did not have smartphones</li>\r\n 	<li>Little awareness, exposure or familiarity with banking and mobile payment operations/ instruments and its perceived complexity</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack of trust in safety associated with digital transactions</li>\r\n 	<li>No interest or motivation in using non-cash modes of payment</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Adoption of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Aspirational imagery of being with the times (mostly youth)</li>\r\n 	<li>Convenience (mostly working men)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network issues - lack of access to internet in many parts of Bhatta Basti</li>\r\n 	<li>Time and distance factor for the process of on-boarding</li>\r\n 	<li>Varied technical glitches and problems</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active usage of digital payments</td>\r\n<td>Adoption of digital payment solutions such as AEPS, UPI etc. by merchants, e-mitras and vendors in Bhatta Basti</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of reliable and consistent network</li>\r\n 	<li>No clear benefit seen over cash payments</li>\r\n 	<li>Absence of regular and trusted merchants and vendors on these platforms</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"5. Designing behavioral nudges and channels to communicate\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Once the gaps and opportunities within each user segment were identified, our efforts were directed towards answering two critical questions: where should the digital financial solutions operate (in the user journey) and what is the value gap that they will address? This is the step at which targeted solutions to address the gaps and the relevant behavioral nudges emerged.</div>\r\n<div>While designing the DFC nudges and choosing various channels for its delivery, we ensured a mix of value propositions for both the merchants as well as the end-consumers – that addressed various stages of adoption. The decision on the channels and the value propositions we communicated were based on –</div>\r\n<div><strong>a. Profile of the target group–</strong> We based our decisions of channels on the knowledge about smartphone ownership and social media usage of the merchants and end-consumers. A majority of the merchants owned a smartphone and had a presence on social media. In Bhatta Basti, less than half of the population owned smartphones.</div>\r\n<div><strong>b. Stage of adoption and triggers/barriers–</strong> Both merchants and end-consumers are at different stages of adoption. While some were open and willing to transact digitally, they did not have the ability; others were not even aware of digital payment options. Therefore, in some cases, the solution needed to increase awareness and invoke interest while, in others, the solutions needed to begin with getting the end-consumer onboarded onto the platform and then take them forward. Further, our communication through these channels was based on the triggers and barriers identified through our field work. An illustration of the triggers and barriers across the dairy merchants’ adoption journey is provided in Table 2.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n\r\nI am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 2: Illustrative information on triggers and barriers identified for adoption of digital payment solutions by dairy merchants</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><style>\r\ntable {border-collapse: collapse;}table, td, th {border: 1px solid black;} .red {color:#E83355; text-align:center;} th{text-align:center;} td {padding:1rem;}<br />\r\n</style></p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Stages of adoption</th>\r\n<th>Triggers</th>\r\n<th>Barriers</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged but not adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Value proposition of direct money transfer to bank account increases security and eases services like bill payment, account-to-account money transfer.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perception of digital payments to be an inevitable future.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Technical difficulties of using correct phone version, bank account type, etc.</li>\r\n 	<li>Perceived time and complexity of a digital transaction.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive to undertake extra effort in terms of daily bank visit to digitize income and opportunity cost of time, fuel and business loss.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Engaged and adopted</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer and increased security.</li>\r\n 	<li>Helped retailers in credit building.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Lack of customer interest in digital payments.</li>\r\n 	<li>90% of the non-cash customers use wallets, and show resistance to UPI adoption.</li>\r\n 	<li>Lack incentive and opportunity cost of bank visit.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Active user</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Allow retailers to pay at convenience with no dependency on distributor’s cash collector.</li>\r\n 	<li>Hassle-free accounting.</li>\r\n 	<li>Direct money transfer.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Network connectivity issues.</li>\r\n 	<li>Commission charges of digital payment service providers diminish the already thin dairy margins.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>c. Familiarity and trust with channel: It is very important to select a channel that the customers are familiar with and trust completely. This is also true of the change agents or influencers who introduce them to the solutions.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div>Based on the above, the various channels that CATALYST used to communicate value propositions and improve DFC of the customers across ecosystems are presented in the matrix in Figure 4.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Table 3: Channels used to present DFC value proposition</p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th></th>\r\n<th>eMitras</th>\r\n<th>Dairy</th>\r\n<th>Bhatta Basti</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Merchant-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of eMitra agents</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>IVRS for knowledge dissemination</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group for peer-to-peer influence and nudge</li>\r\n 	<li>Capacity building of dairy merchants</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"red\">Consumer-facing</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Incentives</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Flyers at points of sale</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n<td>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Facebook awareness video</li>\r\n 	<li>Digital mela for awareness and onboarding (with distribution of visual collaterals like comic books, flyers)</li>\r\n 	<li>WhatsApp group moderated by change agents of the community</li>\r\n 	<li>Personal handholding for onboarding</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Toll-free IVRS:\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Since merchants have very little active interest in digital payments right now, channels such as IVRS where they need to call by themselves might not work unless there is a clear incentive or direct link with increase in business. Even at a stage where merchants are ready and willing to access IVRS, the format needs to be trusted, easy, engaging and, most importantly, backed by support, with a follow up SMS or WhatsApp message This will serve as a ready reckoner and have the link to a customer support number to pose further queries to.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"WhatsApp group of merchants:\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>We created and moderated a WhatsApp group of 20 merchants with the idea of offering the merchants a platform to share their experiences and challenges with others like them. We used WhatsApp as all the merchants were familiar with and already using the app. It also allowed easy sharing of multimedia such as images, videos, etc. We shared information on the benefits of digital payments such as convenience of instant bank-to-bank transfers, no need for loose change, etc. The idea was to inspire them to go digital and then leave them with a channel that does not require moderation from a third party but is sustainable through their own information sharing. WhatsApp was the merchants’ preferred mode to receive information on digital payments as they use it extensively and find it non-intrusive.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nWhatsApp was the merchants’ preferred mode to receive information on digital payments as they use it extensively and find it non-intrusive.\r\n\r\n<strong>b. What didn’t work?</strong>\r\nLow interest in digital payments from consumers meant low interest among merchants and hence the WhatsApp group did not show much proactive engagement. The merchants informed us that they preferred videos over texts.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Therefore, a merchants’ WhatsApp group has the potential to act as a redressal mechanism as merchants can share their experiences and learn from each other, but it may work only at a later stage of digital payments adoption.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Interpersonal communication and capacity building of merchants:\r\n\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]This was done to ensure that the merchants themselves spread awareness about digital payments, explain their benefits and onboard potential users. They were educated on how it would benefit them as well as their consumers and how it was to be done. Merchants were also given collaterals that taught them about the benefits of various payment methods.\r\n\r\n<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nThis was an easy method of conveying the benefits and advantages of adopting digital payments and banking. It also helped address the merchants’ needs to understand the process of onboarding their customers.\r\n\r\n<strong>b. What didn’t work?</strong>\r\nPersonal handholding for every merchant involves a very intensive effort and heavy investment. There is a lot of dependability on the solution providers’ agent and his/her training to be able to make a difference.\r\n\r\nOne of the key learnings was that not all end-consumers view merchants as a trusted source for financial information so merchants might not be the right catalyst for improving DFC of end-consumers.\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"For Consumers (Dairy and eMitra)\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Flyers and interpersonal communication at the point of sales:</strong>\r\n\r\nTo spread awareness about digital payment solutions and their benefits, we placed collaterals on the key value propositions of digital payments at eMitra centers and dairy booths. These were targeted at the digitally-ready audience which would be interested in using digital payments due to the problems of loose change at the dairy booth or the benefit of convenience, in general. They were expected to find the value propositions relevant and ask the merchant for more information. We also provided personal handholding at the dairy booths and eMitra centers to those interested in onboarding onto digital payment solutions. The handholding exercise was undertaken to assist customers with UPI onboarding and to observe and learn from the uptake behavior.\r\n\r\n<strong>Example of a consumer-facing dairy collateral that gives the reasons of using digital payments</strong>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked</strong>\r\nFlyers are a subtle and non-intrusive way of making consumers aware of the presence of digital payment solutions with the merchant. It encouraged digitally-ready consumers to seek more information through the merchant. Personal handholding worked better to onboard people onto the platform as there are still many technological challenges that people face when accessing the solutions on their own, due to which they give up easily.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work</strong>\r\nThose who are not already positively inclined towards digital payments do not pay much attention to flyers, but personal talk makes a difference in convincing them. The majority told us they would be motivated by cash backs and rewards to use digital payments, else they were comfortable with cash and saw no reason to shift.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"For consumers (Bhatta Basti)\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Facebook awareness videos: </strong>\r\n\r\nTo generate initial interest amongst the early adopters of digital payments, we implemented a geo-targeted Facebook campaign in Bhatta Basti to let smartphone users know about digital payments being used in their area and achievements of other people in their communities. These were targeted at youth ambassadors who can influence others in the community and relied on the “network effect” to attract other account holders.\r\n\r\n<strong>a. What worked</strong>\r\nFacebook as a medium turned out to be very cost-effective and targeted, with our campaign reaching over a lakh Facebook users (early adopters of technology) in and around Bhatta Basti.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work</strong>\r\nThe profile of smartphone users became the profile of our campaign; 91 percent of the people reached through the Facebook campaign were men and only 9 percent were women.\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digital mela for consumers across different stages of adoption: \" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Our research indicated that, in an ultra-poor locality such as Bhatta Basti, onboarding customers onto digital payment platforms required the highest degree of in-person handholding, particularly for the initial set of transactions. Hence, it was important to find economical ways of deploying this handholding and our digital mela in Bhatta Basti (in October 2018) was such an attempt. At the mela, we provided two main kinds of services:</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>i. Information about Automated Teller Machine (ATM) PIN generation; and</div>\r\n<div>ii. Handholding support for UPI onboarding (downloading and registering).</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>For spreading awareness about the mela, we identified those youngsters who were already making digital payments and recruited them for our work. We called them ‘Digital Champions’ and they were supposed to encourage and get their peers to the mela. The mela helped build customer capability in an interesting manner through role plays and comic books, etc. We distributed various comic books on ATM pin generation, AEPS and advantages and usage of UPI among people of different ages and with varying levels of digital and financial awareness in Bhatta Basti. (An example of a comic book on UPI is shown below).</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Link to full comic book: UPI full comic book</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nThe \'Digital Champions’ helped us reach out to their peers in their communities in a very targeted and effective way. The digital mela proved to be a good mode of creating awareness and spreading knowledge on UPI services. Sixty-two percent of the attendees said they learnt about the advantages of using UPI and 46 percent said they started transacting using UPI. Comic books were seen as fun and they cut through demographics and gender in their appeal.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work?</strong>\r\nFootfall was male dominated (92 percent) possibly due to the mela being in central market. In order to reach out to more women, a more central location could be chosen. Many felt that the language used in the comic books should have been simpler and easy to understand, and there should have been more pictures and illustrations.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_custom_heading text=\"WhatsApp group for individuals: \" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:left|color:%23383b3b|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\"][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>Over the course of four months, we created and moderated two WhatsApp groups in Bhatta Basti to spread digital financial awareness: one for men and one for women. We realized that we could not have both men and women in the same group due to the cultural context of Bhatta Basti. The WhatsApp group of male members comprised young, early adopters of UPI (whom we called ‘Digital Champions’) while that for females consisted of women in the community (who were at different points in the digital user journey). The Digital Champions were identified as change agents of their community and helped us spread awareness about digital financial inclusion in their community. The WhatsApp group of community women was to encourage the general population of women to discuss their experiences with digital financial services and learn from each other.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a. What worked?</strong>\r\nWhatsApp can be successfully used as a redressal mechanism platform and can be a good channel for early adopters.\r\n<strong>b. What didn\'t work?</strong>\r\nBuilding DFC of people at earlier parts of the user journey may require other forms such as personal handholding rather than WhatsApp. One of the most important takeaways for us was that it was crucial to have a moderator for each group who ensured regularity and quality of the content that is being shared. Further, it was crucial to have an incentive structure (value proposition) for the moderator to ensure active participation of all members. One of the problems we faced was sharing of unrelated information and fake news forwards. Having the moderator put together a set of rules and regulations is very important.[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]\r\n<div>\r\n<div>The specific DFC nudges and channels devised by us are detailed under the respective ecosystem sections in this paper.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"image\" bg_color=\"#c9213b\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"150\" padding_bottom=\"150\" inline_style=\"font-style: normal;\" bg_image=\"40098\"][vc_column][kleo_gap][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=\"6. KEY INSIGHTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM CATALYST’S PILOTS BY STAGES OF ADOPTION\" font_container=\"tag:h2|font_size:26px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:32px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"normal-style \"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>Initial stage to make customer interested in digital payments – improving customers’ awareness and consideration for digital solutions</strong>[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\"]<strong>a.</strong> A major problem that we faced during our experiments was communicating a clear value proposition on digital financial inclusion.\r\n\r\nIn-depth interviews with our customers during pilots suggested that the convenience or speed of making or receiving digital payments is not a big pull for the low- to middle-income class to make a shift from cash to digital. Unless a strong value proposition exists, expecting consumers to make the journey from being aware to actively seeking knowledge and adopting will not happen.\r\n\r\nFor digital financial inclusion to resonate with customers, its “benefits to self” need to be strongly linked with people’s personal aspirations – both merchants’ as well as consumers In the same light, for encouraging digital payments, it is very important for the incentives to be clear and attention-catching, for example, the eMitra incentivization model was found to be too complex to be able to motivate the merchants.\r\n\r\n<strong>b.</strong> One of the biggest barriers to adoption is that there is a perceived risk to one’s money due to mistrust in using technology for finances. There is also a lack of confidence in the privacy of personal data. Coupled with this is the problem of frauds in urban slum clusters, as we found out in Bhatta Basti where a few people posing as solution providers had robbed people of their money. Similar experiments aimed at improving financial capability of women from low-income segments, such as with the Grameen Foundation,⁷ have shown that the use of a trust-worthy person (a front-line worker in this case), who happens to be an influencer in financial solutions, goes a long way in making women act positively.\r\n\r\nQualitative insights suggest that trust plays a very big factor in financial decisions of any kind including decisions on using digital financial payments. Hence, network analysis, i.e., following one’s friends and family, emerged as one of the most important triggers for digital financial inclusion.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"color\" bg_color=\"#ffffff\"][vc_column][kleo_button title=\"Download full report\" href=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MoT-Learning-Note.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" position=\"center\" size=\"lg\" type=\"boxed-icon\" special=\"no\" icon=\"download\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" el_class=\"pkirbtn\" icon_custom_background=\"#d11e3c\" icon_custom_text=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=\"footer_area\" text_align=\"center\" type=\"image\" bg_position_horizontal=\"center\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_top=\"50px\" padding_bottom=\"50px\" bg_image=\"7886\"][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-0 vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_col-sm-offset-0\"][vc_single_image image=\"7888\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\"][vc_column_text text_color=\"#ffffff\" font_size=\"14px\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484826151396{margin-top: 35px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">CATALYST is an initiative seeded by an alliance between the Government of India &amp; USAID, to expand digital payments and financial inclusion in India, especially for small merchants and low-income consumers.</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_gap][vc_column_text letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1484051069491{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[email-newsletter-plugin]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][kleo_icon icon=\"facebook\" href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CashlessCatalyst/\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"linkedin\" href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/company/13221050?trk=tyah&amp;trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A13221050%2Cidx%3A2-1-2%2CtarId%3A1476420479247%2Ctas%3Acashless%20catalyst\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"twitter\" href=\"https://twitter.com/cashlesscatalys\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][kleo_icon icon=\"youtube-play\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChuc38_PfawDOu44IfYS4lw\" target=\"_blank\" padding=\"15px\" icon_color=\"#ffffff\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/4\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Using behavioral insights to improve digital financial capability of customers', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '40127-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-01-21 09:21:39', '2019-01-21 09:21:39', '', 40127, 'https://cashlesscatalyst.org/media/40127-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547728753761{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1519195448838{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40108\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/markers-trust-recreating-digital-ecosystems-women-low-income-clusters/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Markers of Trust: Recreating Digital Ecosystems for Women in Low-Income Clusters\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fmarkers-trust-recreating-digital-ecosystems-women-low-income-clusters%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547728692611{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Shilpa Pandit\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547728730882{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547728753761{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1523434485038{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40111\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Learnin-by-doing-Learning-Note.pdf\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Implementing Innovation Through An Ecosystem ``Learning and Solving by Doing`` Approach\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2FLearnin-by-doing-Learning-Note.pdf|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729102121{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Gaurav Singhal and Sharon Buteau\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729123032{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"January, 2019\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547729136442{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1519195482884{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"40042\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/using-comic-books-increase-digital-financial-capabilities-low-income-clusters/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Using Comic Books to Increase Digital Financial Capabilities in Low-Income Clusters\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fusing-comic-books-increase-digital-financial-capabilities-low-income-clusters%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547616877305{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Nithya Srinivasan\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469646057{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"December, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1547469653452{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1523434422317{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"39803\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/strengthening-potential-digital-finance-women-bhatta-basti/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Strengthening the potential of digital finance for women in bhatta basti\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fstrengthening-potential-digital-finance-women-bhatta-basti%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1545566539870{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Deepti KC\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1545895354180{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"December, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1545566609711{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1519195345948{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"39450\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/digital-lending-small-merchants-missing-road-last-mile/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digital lending for small merchants: the missing road to the last mile\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fdigital-lending-small-merchants-missing-road-last-mile%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1542722764189{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: John Arun and Shubhranka Mondal\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1542722803475{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"November, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1542723317626{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\" gap=\"30\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1541408971675{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #dd3333 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"38891\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/segmenting-low-income-cluster-digital-payment-solutions/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Segmenting low-income cluster for digital payment solutions\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fsegmenting-low-income-cluster-digital-payment-solutions%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1541403176185{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writer : Deepti Kc\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1547744194418{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"October, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1541402650943{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1537956108157{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #dd3333 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"26507\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/digitizing-dairy-b2b-supply-chain/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Digitizing Dairy B2B Supply Chain\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fdigitizing-dairy-b2b-supply-chain%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1537956128919{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Tunisha Kapoor and Preethi Rao\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1537955384156{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"September, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1537523993141{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1537954927172{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #dd3333 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"26362\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/leveragin-gst-for-digital-payments/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Leveraging GST for digital payments\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fleveragin-gst-for-digital-payments%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1537523945584{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Mandar Kagade, Raghav Katyal, Janak Priyani, and Diksha Singh\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1537523972346{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"September, 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" css=\".vc_custom_1537523993141{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1/4\" css=\".vc_custom_1537524096448{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-color: #d11e3c !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}\"][vc_single_image image=\"23078\" img_size=\"full\" alignment=\"center\" onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/merchant-perspectives-bhim-experience/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Merchant perspectives on the BHIM experience\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:http%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fmerchant-perspectives-bhim-experience%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1530709959894{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Mandar Kagade, Janak Priyani, Diksha Singh and Raghav Katyal.\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1530785894602{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"July 2018\" font_container=\"tag:p|font_size:14px|text_align:left|color:%23a5a5a5|line_height:22px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" 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onclick=\"custom_link\" link=\"https://cashlesscatalyst.org/how-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor/\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"How digitally ready are the urban ultra-poor?\" font_container=\"tag:h4|font_size:18px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:24px\" google_fonts=\"font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal\" letter_spacing=\"\" link=\"url:http%3A%2F%2Fcashlesscatalyst.org%2Fhow-digitally-ready-are-the-urban-ultra-poor%2F|||\" el_class=\"lnContainerTitle\" css=\".vc_custom_1519196000899{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}\"][vc_custom_heading text=\"Technical writers: Mridulya Narasimhan &amp; Nidhi Punmia\" font_container=\"tag:h5|font_size:12px|text_align:left|color:%23040707|line_height:18px\" 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