Chawpass UN Sustainability Goals Impact
With Chawpass' SDG Alignment & Impact framework, Chawpass aims to provide a clear understanding to customers, clients, merchants, partners, investors and the general public on our work on goals already achieved and our continuous improvement towards goals we intend to incorporate in processes in the future.
Chawpass' SDG Alignment & Impact framework sets out how the work and product/services that Chawpass offers, aligns with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Chawpass uses it to keep its impact consistent and evidenced as the company grows.
Not a list — a causal chain
Each goal is the precondition for the next
Improve food access
Restrict food benefits and gifts to verified food purchases.
Build an innovative digital financial system
Secure bank integrations, seamless merchant onboarding, easier payment user experience.
Strengthen welfare and food MSMEs
Employees food benefits are protected, staff morale and retention are high & larger customer base for merchants.
Reach the underserved
The informal businesses, unbanked individuals, corporate businesses uses the same system with no bank account required.
Partner across the ecosystem
System to collaboration through a sponsor bank for businesses, individuals & merchants.
SDG 2 · primary
Our proposition is not just to make food payments easier and more secure but we also aim to improve food access both to the corporate employer to the individual with no bank account. We have built a digital payment system that doesn't require the need of a bank account to access it. For corporate employers and employees, a food benefit funded by the employer through Chawpass for the employee is a benefit in kind, that doesn't get taxed ensuring that employee receive full benefit alloted for food and merchants have more sales output as result of it.
What we do, precisely
Chawpass contributes to SDG 2 by making food payments secure and thereby ensuring food accessible, while maximizing employee benefits, employer value, and merchant sales opportunities.
UN: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
Indicators from launch
SDG 8 · primary
All stakeholders using the Chawpass payment system benefit at different stage of usage of the system. The employees get non-taxable food benefits which ensure proper wellbeing and increase productivity at the workplace. The employers enjoy better employee retention, low turnover rate and increased morale from employees which can reflective to influence other employees leading to cohesive work environment and better organization reputation. The food merchants, grocery shops, supermarkets and small/medium enterprise have access to increased customer base, more brand loyalty through the employees' patronage, have fast and secure payment settlement and one system that collates all food transactions for ease of reference and audits.
What we do, precisely
Chawpass strengthens wellbeing, workplace loyalty, merchant growth, secure payments, customer reach, and transparent food transaction management.
UN: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
Indicators from launch
SDG 9 · primary
We have built an innovative financial payment solution that is very core to one of the needs of every human being which is centralized on food and food benefits. The system built is not just a single consumer app but a gathering of different users in one platform with underlying technologies provided through different partners and Chawpass directly. Our payment system incorporate merchant and employer portals/API, bank integrations, transaction analytics and custom-made fraud detection technology all well-aligned in one unit. Every user enjoys these base architecture signifying our commitment towards equality of service across all channels.
What we do, precisely
Chawpass unites food, payments, partners, and intelligent technology, delivering secure, equal access across every user channel.
UN: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation.
Indicators from launch
Three goals follow from the primary three. Four more are conditional — real opportunities we have not built for yet. Open any one to read where we stand.
Thirteen pages written for investors, funders and partners — the causal chain in full, per-goal positioning statements, and the indicators we report against.
Chawpass does not claim to eliminate hunger, poverty or inequality. We claim, precisely, to contribute to food access and food-security mechanisms, to strengthen the economic position of the people and businesses in our ecosystem, and to build the infrastructure that makes both possible.
Our platform is in build, so every indicator here is a target to track from launch — not an achieved result. We will keep saying so until real data exists.