Human(itarian) Capital? Lessons on Better Connecting Humanitarian Assistance and Social Protection

Report

Governments in low- and middle-income countries are increasingly investing in social protection, and also address many of their own people’s “humanitarian” needs themselves. For their international partners, who may have an important role in filling gaps when household needs exceed national capacity...

2018

Multi-purpose Cash and Protection for South Sudanese Refugees in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement: A Learning Event Report

Report

This paper will present evidence on how cash transfers empowers conflict affected populations. The evidence is based on two projects implemented by DCA in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Uganda. Furthermore, the paper present evidence on how the two projects successfully linked cash and protection. 14, 520...

2018

Basic Needs Assessment Guidance & Toolbox Part 2: How-to Guide & Tools

Guidelines and Tools

This How-to Guide is Part 2 of the BNA Guidance & Toolbox, with Part 1 describing the background and concepts underpinning the BNA approach.
The How-to Guide describes the sequence of practical steps necessary to ensure a successful BNA during emergencies, from initiation of the BNA up to reporting and...

2018

The 1.5 Billion People Question : Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?

Report

Most of the people in low and middle-income countries covered by social protection receive assistance in the form of in-kind food. The origin of such support is rooted in countries’ historical pursuit of three interconnected objectives, namely attaining self-sufficiency in food, managing domestic food...

2018

Review of Food for Peace Market-Based Emergency Food Assistance Programs: Zimbabwe Case Study Report

Report

Zimbabwe reflects the recent Southern African drought crisis during a period of a regional El Niño-related drought and a national cash crisis. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Food for Peace (FFP) funded a mix of programming between fiscal years 2011 and 2015,...

January 2018

Disaster Risk Financing Instruments

Guidelines and Tools

2018

The Role of Cash Transfers in Social Protection, Humanitarian Response and Shock-Responsive Social Protection

Guidelines and Tools

Cash transfers have expanded rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) around the world in the past decade. The contexts in which they are implemented have also diversified; while cash transfers were mostly adopted initially as central elements of social protection systems, they have become...

2018

Définition des Paniers de Dépenses Minimum (MEB) en Afrique de L’Ouest

Rapport

Au cours de l’année 2017, 5 pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest ont lancé un travail collectif de définition du panier de dépenses minimum, afin de mieux comprendre la contribution de l’aide humanitaire à la couverture des besoins de base des populations affectées et d’améliorer son impact. Ce...

2018

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...

December 2017

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...

December 2017

Geneva-based cash working group – Minutes from 13 November 2017

Guidelines and Tools

Geneva-based cash working group – Minutes from 13 November 2017

November 2017

More Phones, More Transfers? A case study from Save the Children’s Emergency Food Security Program using Mobile Money in Bari, Nugaal, & Hiran Regions of Somalia

Report

In 2016-2017, with funding from USAID/FFP, Save the Children implemented a project targeting over 10,000HH the Bari, Nugaal, and Hiran regions of Somalia with monthly cash transfers using Mobile Money a partnership with Golis and Hormuud. The project sought to improve the food security situation in the...

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...

November 2017

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.

November 2017