Why innovation is easier in smaller places, blockchain in Vanuatu, Sandra Uwantege Hart

In our latest podcast we talk with Sandra Uwantege Hart who is leading an innovation and exciting blockchain project in Vanuatu called UnBlocked Cash which recently won an EU award.

Sandra Uwantege Hart is the Pacific Cash & Livelihoods Lead with Oxfam Vanuatu and is also leading on the Blockchain project that we discuss in this interview.

See more about Sandra here

www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-uwantege-hart-862b5986/

See more here about the project

here

Oxfam and Sempo’s Unblocked Cash Project

and here THE UNBLOCKED CASH PROJECT
Accelerating Cash and Voucher Assistance through the UnBlocked Cash Project

https://www.facebook.com/oxfaminvanuatu/

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Responding to the announcement of #Budget2021, Chief Executive of Oxfam Ireland @JimClarken said:

We welcome the increase of €30 million in Official Development Assistance (#ODA) in Budget 2021. https://t.co/DF4QQy2eWt pic.twitter.com/NkSSJmXw2D

— Oxfam Ireland (@OxfamIreland) October 13, 2020

The UnBlocked Cash Project focuses on generating positive social change among some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world. This is achieved through the pioneering of a decentralised model to address the global challenge of delivering international aid to disaster-affected women and men in ways that are more efficient, transparent and sustainable, utilising Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

This innovation places disaster affected people and their communities at the centre of decision making related to their cash-based entitlements and addresses the global challenge of linking institutions and individuals directly to those they want to support in ways that do not compromise transparency and accountability. This use case is built upon a successful collaboration between Oxfam- a global leader in delivering humanitarian assistance and Sempo – a mission-driven Fintech start-up working at the intersection between humanitarian aid, technology and financial services.

Together, Oxfam and Sempo have demonstrated the first successful trial demonstrating community co-development of a blockchain solution to deliver localised, cash-based disaster assistance in the Pacific region. Our main objective is now to scale the ‘UnBlocked Cash’ project across the Pacific Region and globally, to replicate and test this use case in meeting the needs of underserved and remote communities and to explore the potential to scale in comparable contexts, globally.

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