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A buffer against the drought
Report
The Government of Kenya in partnership with DFID undertake a long term social protection program(Hunger Safety Net Program) in Northern Kenya reaching out to poor households with bi monthly cash transfers. So much investment has been put in this program including pre-registration and carding of...
Mobile Money in Somalia – Household Survey and Market Analysis
Report
Key findings from an assessment of mobile money in Somalia. Provides information about mobile money penetration; practicalities; usage; perceptions and the use of shillings versus dollars.
Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems Research Case Study: Pakistan
Report
This case study presents an overview of the social protection disaster risk management and humanitarian systems in Pakistan, and discusses both Pakistan’s flagship social protection programme, the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), as well as emergency cash transfers provided as disaster...
Baseline Survey for Project Output and Livelihoods Support Assessment
Report
This report highlights the baseline findings of the UNHCR funded project “Increased self-reliance through cash interventions and livelihoods support to conflict-affected South Sudanese refugees in Bidibidi refugee settlement and host communities in Yumbe District in Uganda” implemented by...
Multisectoral Basic Needs and Market Assessment Moyo Uganda
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A multisectoral basic needs and market assessment done in Palorinya settlement and the host communities within Moyo district. Focuses are on basic needs and cash feasibility, the education system gaps, the firewood issues and access to loans and credit.
Data were gathered in December 2017, with...
As the movement for cash transfer programming advances, how can we ensure that people with disabilities are not left behind in cash transfer programming for emergencies?
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It is estimated that 15% of the world’s population has a disability and evidence has shown that those with a disability are likely to be disproportionately affected when a crisis hits. In a 2015 global consultation carried out by Handicap International, 75% of respondents living with a disability, the...
Fast Forward. A discussion paper on the future of cash
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This discussion paper has been co-created by the CALP Network with input from its members during the month of September 2016 to inform ongoing discussions about cash transfer programming worldwide. This discussion paper briefly describes one of the most ambitious reform proposals to implement cash...
Field manual for humanitarian e-voucher programs in Turkey
Guidelines and Tools
Welthungerhilfe has been active using e-vouchers in response to the Syrian refugee crisis since 2014, and has provided more than 100,000 individuals with unconditional cash transfers funded by the Federal German Foreign Office, ECHO, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Office, and UNICEF....
10 things you should know about cash transfers
Video
Watch the video here. Nearly 90 million people around the world are in need of humanitarian aid. One great way to help them is by giving people cash instead of goods like food and clothes. It’s simple, and helps more people, more effectively. Interested? Here are 10 things you should know about cash...
10 things you should know about cash transfers
Blog Post
Watch the video here. Nearly 90 million people around the world are in need of humanitarian aid. One great way to help them is by giving people cash instead of goods like food and clothes. It’s simple, and helps more people, more effectively. Interested? Here are 10 things you should know about cash...
Food or Cash or Vouchers? New report on U.S. food assistance monitoring and evaluation suggests “All of the above”
Blog Post
In this special blog Jenny Coneff, the CALP Network's North America Focal Point, reflects on the main findings of the GAO report.
Multi-Sector Market Environment Analysis – Haiti. To what extent can markets meet the basic needs of the population affected by Hurricane Matthew
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Relief interventions in Haiti, including those to the 2010 earthquake, have been criticised for their (potential) harmful effect on the national market systems (ALNAP 2011 Humanitarian Coalition 2012). This multi-sector report intends to strengthen the understanding of the market environment in the...
Cash Transfer Program In Bangladesh: Looking Through The ELNHA Lens
Report
Oxfam is implementing a multi-country humanitarian capacity building project titled as ‘’Empowering Local and National Humanitarian Actors (ELNHA)’’ in Bangladesh. This project is designed to use a variety of approaches that will enable local and national humanitarian actors (LNHAs) to take the...
Cash is the answer to change the global aid system
Blog Post
A variety of studies show that recipients of cash not only use the assistance to meet immediate needs (food, shelter, health, schooling) but they also use it to invest in businesses. Cash is not only a dignified way of helping people in need get back on their feet, it incentivises and supports...
Gender Analysis for MVAC Emergency Cash Transfer Programme
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Cash Transfers (CTs) provided an effective means of supporting men and women to meet their basic needs in an emergency. CTs assisted men and women to meet their practical needs, giving men a sense of purpose as a provider, and allowing women to fulfil their traditional roles as wife and mother. CTs led...
E-Transfers for Hygiene through Red Rose in Northern Syria
Report
Cash is receiving a lot of attention globally and is currently being scaled-up at the highest level. On the 9th February 2016, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched his report for the World Humanitarian Summit, calling for cash-based programming to be the ‘default method of support for affected...
Documenting learning from cash transfer programming in the Ebola context
Blog Post
The CALP Network in West Africa is launching a new Cash and Ebola project that aims to optimize the use of CTP in future crises by documenting, analyzing and providing recommendations from the use of CTP in the Ebola Crisis.
Innovative Electronic Cash Transfer Programme for Emergencies. An Oxfam Visa case study in Philippines
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On November 8, 2013, super Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) struck the Philippines, killing more than 6,000 people, and displacing an estimated 4.4 million individuals. Through its cash transfer programme, Oxfam conducted cash for work activities, and provided cash asset recovery to more than...
Untapped Humanitarian Demand: A Business Case for Expanding Digital Financial Services
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The International Rescue Committee, commissioned Strategy Impact Advisors to build a return on investment (ROI) model to estimate whether or not a business case exists for expanded coverage of digital financial services in crisis-prone areas (Lebanon and the Philippines). This analysis provides...
Making Electronic Payments Work for Humanitarian Response
Report
The dialogue leading up to the WHS has cast a spotlight on humanitarian cash transfers. Significant global attention has centered on the role of cash transfers in bringing efficiency to the humanitarian system and improving outcomes for crisis-affected populations. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has...