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Humanitarian Needs Assessment – The Good Enough Guide
Report
Needs assessment is essential for programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability, however needs assessment is still a critical weakness of humanitarian response. Organizations urgently need to improve how they do assessments. The humanitarian community has been working on this issue...
Humanitarian Guidance Note: Cash Transfer Programming
Guidelines and Tools
This Guidance Note from DfID provides an overview of key components of cash transfer programming (CTP) in emergencies, including operational conditions required to assess its feasibility & effectiveness. A brief guide to assist programme staff in writing funding proposals for cash-based interventions...
A Review of Cash Transfer Programming and the the CALP Network 2005–2015 and Beyond
Report
The core purpose of this review, commissioned by the CALP Network, is to evaluate the CALP Network’s progress since inception and examine the status and continued needs of cash programming in emergencies. Cash transfer programming (CTP) represents a significant shift in the way humanitarian aid can...
CTP factsheet – Vietnam Red Cross – cash transfer preparedness pilot
Report
The IFRC worked with four pilot countries between May 2012 and December 2013 to enable the National Societies to use cash transfer programming to address relief needs at scale, implementing it more rapidly and targeting a larger number of households. The Vietnam Red Cross was one of the four...
Policy Brief: Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers
Policy paper
This policy paper looks at a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the unconditional cash transfer program implemented by the NGO GiveDirectly in Western Kenya between 2011 and 2012, in which poor rural households received unconditional cash transfers through the mobile money system M-Pesa. Importantly,...
The CALP Network Level 2 Training – Module 2 – When to use cash transfers?
Guidelines and Tools
The objective of the Level 2 training is to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors in cash transfer programme design and implementation, to share recent research and learning, and encourage advocacy, institutionalisation and coordination in cash transfer programming (CTP). This training follows...
Electronic Transfers Scoping Study and Preparedness Plan
Policy paper
This piece of work was arranged by Action Against Hunger (ACF), with the intention of understanding the electronic payment services available in a minimum of two country missions and to support ACF in preparing for future humanitarian response in country and globally, with a specific focus on...
Against the Grain: The Cereal Trade in Darfur
Report
WFP began to pilot food vouchers in Darfur in 2010 as an alternative to general food distribution. The main purpose of the voucher program is greater cost-efficiency for WFP, increased choice for beneficiaries, and strengthening of markets. It is also expected to create market multiplier effects and...
Food Aid Flows 2012 Report
Report
In 2012 global food aid deliveries totaled slightly more than 5 million mt. The World Food Programme (WFP) remains the primary means for delivering food assistance: 58 percent of global food aid was provided through WFP in 2012. Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa were the main recipients of food aid in 2012,...
Social Protection Floors in the Post-2015 Agenda: Targets and indicator
Policy paper
A policy brief outlining the post-2015 targets and indicators for social protection. To be transformational and make a real difference in people’s lives by 2030, two issues are critical: (1) universal coverage, for all, and (2) adequate benefits, ensuring that at least all in need receive sufficient...
Child Grants Programme Impact Evaluation Follow-up Report – Executive Summary
Case Study
The Lesotho Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional social cash transfer targeted to poor and vulnerable households. It provides every quarter a regular transfer of between M360 and M7501 to poor households with children that are selected through a combination of Proxy Means Testing (PMT) and...
The CALP Network Level 2 Training – Module 3 – Selecting, designing and implementing CTPs
Guidelines and Tools
The objective of the Level 2 training is to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors in cash transfer programme design and implementation, to share recent research and learning, and encourage advocacy, institutionalisation and coordination in cash transfer programming (CTP). This training follows...
Case Study: Unconditional cash transfers response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Report
Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful storm ever recorded, first made landfall in the morning of 8 November 2013 in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, causing extensive damage to life, housing, livelihoods and infrastructure across nine of the Philippines’ provinces. The islands of Leyte and Samar were among...
Economic Strengthening for Child Protection & Education in Emergencies
Guidelines and Tools
The aim of this compendium is to provide education and child protection coordinators and partners working in the field who are involved in or confronted with economic strengthening programmes with key existing evidence and guidance documents in order to inform their work, at all stages of a programme...
Effects of the Palestinian National Cash Transfer Programme on Children and Adolescents
Report
Over the past two decades, social protection programmes have been implemented in many developing countries to reduce poverty and vulnerabilities in the face of context-specific challenges such as economic crises,inequality and exclusion, and human development deficits. The multidimensional...
Evaluation of the Preparedness Pilot for Cash Transfer Programmes – Achieving scale in relief cash transfer programming – 2014
Report
It is recognized that cash transfer programming can be effective in supporting populations affected by disasters in a way that maintains dignity and choice for beneficiaries while stimulating local livelihoods, economies and markets. However, the majority of cash transfer programming has been undertaken...
Research to Identify the Optimal Operational Set-up for Multi-Actor Provision of Unconditional Cash Grants to Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Final report and recommendation
Report
This report contains the findings and recommendations from a 30 day research project commissioned by the cash working group (CWG) based in Lebanon, and more specifically the team tasked with the operational set-up. The Avenir research project team was engaged to identify the optimal operational set-up for...
Research gaps in cash transfer programming
Report
Gathering evidence through action research is one of the ways that the CALP Network aims to improve cash transfer programming (CTP) implementation and raise awareness about CTP and its use as an appropriate and effective mechanism for emergency response. Before defining potential research topics for 2014,...
Understanding the Interaction Between Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Based Violence: Study on ACF’s cash transfer programme in northern Uganda
Report
This paper presents findings of a qualitative study conducted in Northern Uganda, on the effects of a cash transfer programme on gender relations and GBV in a post – conflict context. The intervention in focus is Action Against Hunger |ACF International (ACF)’s ‘Combating Gender Based Violence and...
CGP Impact Evaluation (UNICEF/FAO): Targeting and baseline evaluation report
Report
The Child Grants Programme (CGP) is an unconditional cash transfer targeted to poor and vulnerable households in Lesotho. The primary objective of the CGP is to improve the living standards of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) so as to reduce malnutrition, improve health status, and increase school...