EMMA Toolkit

Report

Download the publication file here EMMA is a set of tools (this toolkit) and guidance notes (the reference manual on CD-ROM). It encourages and assists front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate, and make use of market systems. It does not offer a...

2015

Workshop Report – Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) in Northern Syria: Where are we now and where do we want to be?

Report

This report summarizes the outcomes of a one day workshop on Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) that was organized by the Cash-Based Responses Technical Working Group (CBR-TWG) for Northern Syria on April 28th 2015 in Gaziantep, Turkey. The workshop was attended by a wide group of stakeholders from the...

2015

Doing Cash Differently: How cash transfers can transform humanitarian aid?

Policy paper

This report commissioned by the Overseas Development Institute highlights why giving aid directly in the form of cash is often a highly effective way to reduce suffering and to make limited humanitarian aid budgets go further. The publication, ,written by the High Level Panel on Humanitarian...

2015

Working Paper 1: Conceptualising shock-responsive social protection

Report

The Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems study is a two-year, £1 million research programme led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), in consortium with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the the CALP Network and INASP, and funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). This...

2015

Assistance monétaire multisectorielle pour les réfugiés syriens et les communautés d’accueil au Liban : Programme d’IRC

Rapport

Il est de plus en plus reconnu au sein du secteur humanitaire que, en situation d’urgence, les transferts monétaires et les coupons (appelés communément transferts monétaires ou PTM,  programmes intégrant des transferts monétaires) peuvent être des outils appropriés et efficaces pour venir...

2015

Exemple d’accord de confidentialite

Guides et outils

GUIDE ELAN POUR L’ÉVALUATION D’ARGENT MOBILE ET L’ÉTABLISSEMENT DE CONTRAT

2015

AAP Minimum Standards for Complaints & Feedback

Guidelines and Tools

A complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM) is a formal mechanism for receiving and responding to complaints from people in communities where we implement programmes. The main objectives are to increase the influence of affected communities over programmes, ensure that incidences of dissatisfaction with the...

2015

CBR-TWG Northern Syria Assistance Delivery Modality Decision Tree

Report

This modality decision tree has been developed by the Cash Based Responses Technical Working Group to ensure transparent decision making with specific consideration of the cross border response from Turkey into Northern Syria. Based on global guidance documents from OXFAM, the CALP Network and independent...

2015

Voucher Monthly Post Distribution Form

Report

2015

Unlocking Cash and Markets-Based Programmes

Report

In the aftermath of an emergency, humanitarian agencies are increasingly recognising the value of cash and voucher modalities, and market engagement. For Logistics and Supply Chain, our roles are evolving to embrace this trend, adapting our ways of working and even take on new responsibilities. Many...

2015

Breaking the Hourglass: Partnerships in Remote Management Settings – The Cases of Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan

Report

This study set out to examine partnerships between international and local organizations engaging in humanitarian action in remote management and insecure settings. The study was motivated by the lack of systematic research in areas where international organizations have limited access due to insecurity...

2015

Cash Coordination in the Philippines: A review of lessons learned during the response to Super Typhoon Haiyan

Report

In the last five years there has been a growing trend towards the use of cash transfer programming (CTP) as a response modality in emergencies across the humanitarian sector. The fungibility of cash, when provided without restrictions, offers increased choice for affected populations to...

2015

Nepal Earthquake Response: Lessons for operational agencies

Policy paper

In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, this paper looks at lessons drawn from previous comparable disasters and seeks to provide invaluable information and assistance to the operational agencies responding to the crisis. Seventeen Lessons give an overview of important learnings based on...

2015

State of Evidence on Humanitarian Cash Transfers

Policy paper

The “State of evidence on humanitarian cash transfers” background note provides a brief summary of the evidence base on humanitarian cash transfer programming. The report also outlines the types of evidence on cash transfers, findings on key issues and gaps. This publication is an output of the...

2015

Voices and Views of Beneficiaries on Unconditional Cash Transfers – Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal and the Philippines

Report

Providing cash in humanitarian emergencies is expanding and the topic is well under discussion within the humanitarian sector with topics ranging from high-level consideration of cash as a tool to transform humanitarian aid, the significance of cash as a way to support beneficiary choice and dignity...

2015

Remittances to Syria: What works, where and how

Report

This study sought to understand remittance flows into Syria, and established that various Informal Value Transfer Systems (IVTS) are used, to the exclusion of the formal banking sector. Registered and unregistered hawala, courier services and family connections are used. Remittances have played an...

2015

Maximising the Nutritional Impact of Humanitarian Food Assistance

Report

Over the past years, DG ECHO has placed a strong focus on nutrition, renewing its commitment to improve nutrition-specific programing through the release of the Nutrition Staff Working Document (2013) and the IYCF-E guidance document in 2015. However, the improvement of the nutrition status of...

2015

Coordination Diagrams

Guidelines and Tools

2015

Cash Based Programming In Somalia – Module 6: Focus On Vouchers

Report

This guidance note is part of a series of nine modules that seeks to provide support to humanitarian actors working on Cash Based Programming in Somalia Cash transfer programming can be set up through different designs with contextual specificities defining diverse approaches to targeting, control...

2015

Are Public Works Programmes Effective in Reinforcing Social Protection Systems? Evidence from Northern Namibia

Report

This paper analyses the effectiveness of public works programmes (PWPs) in creating employment, reducing poverty and reinforcing the existing social protection system in Namibia. Using data and information from a survey conducted in northern Namibia, it is established that while public works programmes...

2015