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Simplifying Access To Cash Relief
The UNICEF Venture Fund invests in early-stage, open-source technology solutions that address global challenges affecting children. It supports startups leveraging emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, and IoT to drive social impact, particularly in underserved regions. The fund provides equity-free seed funding, technical guidance, and access to UNICEF's global network to help scale innovative solutions.
Rahat is a blockchain-powered CVA platform designed to streamline cash and voucher distribution for humanitarian aid. It was successfully implemented in Jaleswar, Nepal, improving financial aid distribution by eliminating intermediaries, ensuring fund traceability, and enhancing financial inclusion. Following its success, Rahat is now expanding into crypto-based CVA, enabling cross-border transactions, faster settlements, and greater financial accessibility for unbanked populations. This evolution aims to make aid disbursement more efficient, secure, and scalable for global humanitarian efforts.
Rahat is a blockchain-powered CVA platform designed to streamline cash and voucher distribution for humanitarian aid. It was successfully implemented in Jaleswar, Nepal, improving financial aid distribution by eliminating intermediaries, ensuring fund traceability, and enhancing financial inclusion. Following its success, Rahat is now expanding into crypto-based CVA, enabling cross-border transactions, faster settlements, and greater financial accessibility for unbanked populations. This evolution aims to make aid disbursement more efficient, secure, and scalable for global humanitarian efforts.
The Challenges
Traditional cash relief mechanisms are slow, costly, and lack transparency. Aid distribution involves multiple intermediaries, increasing risks of leakage and inefficiencies. Ensuring last-mile delivery, tracking fund flow, and verifying beneficiary identity were key challenges faced in humanitarian CVA programs.
The Solutions
- Developed a blockchain-based platform ensuring transparent, direct, and efficient cash relief.
- Integrated digital wallets for beneficiaries to receive funds securely.
- Automated fund tracking, reducing fraud and mismanagement.
- Partnered with local vendors to enable seamless cash disbursement.
- Improved reporting and auditing through real-time transaction logs.
Technology
- Database: MongoDB
- UI: HTML/CSS/Javascript with react library
- Programming Language: JavaScript
- Server: NodeJS
- Blockchain: Ethereum, Base