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Market Support Interventions in Humanitarian Contexts – a Tip Sheet
Guidelines and Tools
This tip sheet defines what market support programming in humanitarian contexts is, and what it can look like in practice. It enables humanitarian practitioners to systematically consider market support interventions alongside other programme activities. The scope includes support interventions focusing...
Cash Transfer Programming in Armed Conflict: The ICRC’s Experience
Report
Money is the main means of survival for most people around the world. That remains the case in situations of armed conflict, when having cash to buy essential goods can mean the difference between life and death.
The ICRC’s experience shows that cash is an essential tool in humanitarian action in armed...
Cash Impact on Food Security and Non-Food Outcomes: Ministudy I
Report
To better understand how different amounts and frequencies of cash transfer impact household food security outcomes and non-food outcomes (food well-being, financial well-being, ability to cope with shocks and stresses and household well-being), this study adopted a randomised control design with two...
Response options analysis and planning for Fafan zone (Somali region, Ethiopia)
Guidelines and Tools
Between October 2017 and March 2018, the Consortium began the pilot in Ethiopia with the aim of providing technical and strategic support to country-based humanitarian organisations, enabling them to engage in collaborative assessments and decision making. Whilst the Consortium has not been conceived to...
CTP Operational Models Analytical Framework
Guidelines and Tools
The State of the World’s Cash Report launched by the CALP Network in February 2018 highlights trends in the uptake of various operational models for the delivery of cash at scale in humanitarian response. Current decision making on the choice between these various operational models is highly influenced...
Impacts of Cash on Nutrition outcomes
Report
Following the presentation of the Grand Bargain agreement at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the use of cash transfers has become a key component of humanitarian assistance and humanitarian actors and policy-makers increasingly recognize the need for more evidence-based interventions to support their...
Joint Emergency Cash Transfer for Dominicans Most Affected by Hurricane Maria Stocktaking Exercise Report
Report
A workshop was organized in Roseau, Dominica on 3-4 May 2018, to bring together all the stakeholders involved at different levels and stages in the joint Emergency Cash Transfer programme that was implemented from December 2017 to March 2018 as part of the emergency response to Hurricane Maria. The report...
Cash Programming Fact Sheet
Report
A cash programming fact sheet demonstrating cash intervention in Kenya funded by EU Humanitarian Aid (ECHO). The program objective was to increase access to humanitarian assistance for vulnerable and drought-affected populations in the ASAL counties of Kenya.
Somalia Household Expenditure Study
Report
To gain a better understanding of how recipients utilise cash transfers and prioritise spending needs, REACH, through the Somali Cash Consortium, conducted a study on the expenditure patterns of cash transfer beneficiaries.
Tracking Cash & Voucher Assistance Workshop – Part 2: Report
Presentation
Do you want to read the latest on discussions on how to best track cash and voucher assistance in global interagency reporting systems? The CALP Network and ECHO have just released Tracking Cash & Voucher Assistance Workshop – Part 2: Report. Key recommendations emerging from the workshop are summarized...
Sudan Cash Working Group meeting minutes 12 December 2017
Report
Sudan Cash Working Group meeting minutes 12 December 2017
Minimum Economic Recovery Standards
Guidelines and Tools
The Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS) are the internationally recognised consensus on best practices for building economic resilience for crisis-affected communities. SEEP developed and refined MERS over a ten-year process with input from hundreds of organisations and practitioners.
Available...
Basic Needs Assessment Report BNA Pilot in Fafan zone, Ethiopia
Report
The BNA in Ethiopia identified Tuliguled as the woreda where deprivation across all basic needs has the most severe humanitarian consequences for the population in the assessed sites . Babile and Kebribeyah were the next most affected. This situation was due mostly to insufficient purchasing power and...
Ethiopia Payment Mecanism Assessment Report
Guidelines and Tools
Humanitarian organizations today are facing unprecedented challenges in addressing crises in the Middle East, Africa and across the world. The crises are both urgent and, in many cases, protracted in nature; the varying scenarios have driven the need to better understand how to select the modality of...
Inter-Agency Joint Cash Study: Market Functionality and Community Perception of Cash Based Assistance – Yemen
Report
Since 2015, conflict in Yemen has left 3 million people displaced and over half of the population food insecure, and has destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. As of July 2017, much of the population had lost their primary source of income, 46% lacked access to a free improved water source and...
The CALP Network’s Cash Learning Hub is Now Live!
Blog Post
The Cash Learning Hub is a one-stop-shop for Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) learning and training resources, and our course catalogue has over 30 resources in English, French Arabic, and Spanish. By partnering with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy, the CALP Network is able to bring its course...
Organizational Cash Readiness Tool (OCRT)
Guidelines and Tools
This set of tools and documents guides practitioners through a process of strengthening their organization's capacity and readiness for cash and voucher assistance (CVA).
Citizenship or Charity: the two paradigms of social protection
Report
This report compares and evaluates two paradigms of social protection. Stephen Kidd explores the assumptions behind, and impacts of, the citizenship and charity paradigms he argues are at work in different contexts.
Geneva-based cash working group – Minutes from 13 November 2017
Guidelines and Tools
Geneva-based cash working group – Minutes from 13 November 2017
Terms of Reference – The Ethiopia Cash Working Group – November2017
Report
The Ethiopia Cash Working Group (ECWG) is a forum of stakeholders dedicated to improving the use and delivery of cash and voucher transfer programming in Ethiopia The overall objective of the group is to strengthen the coherence and quality of cash based interventions (CBIs) in Ethiopia through...