Hacking development gaps with blockchain-based aid delivery
Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash has been selected the winner of the 2020 World Summit Awards in the Inclusion & Empowerment category.
The World Summit Awards are promoting the projects that utilize technology with smart content to hack the worldwide gaps defined by the UN SDGs. The Oxfam-led project has been recognised from among +350 nominated projects as the technological solution with high social impact on promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (SDG 8) and reducing inequalities (SDG 10).
The UnBlocked Cash is a blockchain payment solution that features community-inclusive product iteration, decentralized finance, and blended service delivery across tech, civil society, and the humanitarian sector.
Oxfam has first piloted the project in Vanuatu in 2019 in partnership with Sempo and ConsenSys Social Impact (now Emerging Impact). Since October 2020, the UBC solution is being implemented in the live response program (Covid-19 & Tropical Cyclone Harold) in Vanuatu by a consortium of 17 international and local partners, where Oxfam Vanuatu is a technical lead.
Until now the UBC project has also been piloted by Oxfam in Latin America. In February 2021 the solution will be tested by Oxfam in Papua New Guinea.
