A landscape analysis of enablers and barriers to digital payments to health workers during large-scale immunisation campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review and in-depth interviews
Vincent Micheal Kiberu, Noel Namuhani, Elizabeth Ekirapa, Juliet Aweko, Charles Opio, Fredrick Kanobe, Peter Wakholi, Timothy Abuya, Maggie Mcconnell, Ahmed Hamani, Idil Hussein Jama, Michael Ediau, Segun Bello, David Adewol, Olufunmilayo I Fawole, Petronille Acray-Zengbe, Daniel Arhinful, Georges B · 2026
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Health workers on big vaccination drives in Africa are often paid in cash, late, or not in full. Vincent Micheal Kiberu and co-authors studied the shift to digital pay for those workers in a 2026 paper. They covered eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa, four English-speaking and four French-speaking, including Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal.
The team paired a scoping review with deep interviews in each country during 2022. Digital pay is spreading fast on the back of wider phone coverage and helpful rules. Gains include faster, safer payment that workers can track. Barriers stood out too, among them weak networks, fees, and workers who lack accounts or phones. The authors frame the findings as a landscape map for governments that want campaign pay to arrive on time, a point tied to polio goals set for 2026.
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| CREATOR | Vincent Micheal Kiberu, Noel Namuhani, Elizabeth Ekirapa, Juliet Aweko, Charles Opio, Fredrick Kanobe, Peter Wakholi, Timothy Abuya, Maggie Mcconnell, Ahmed Hamani, Idil Hussein Jama, Michael Ediau, Segun Bello, David Adewol, Olufunmilayo I Fawole, Petronille Acray-Zengbe, Daniel Arhinful, Georges B |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |