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Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods: A review of global evidence
Report
Cash transfers have been demonstrated to improve education and health outcomes and alleviate poverty in various contexts. However, policy makers and others often express concern that poor households will use transfers to buy alcohol, tobacco, or other “temptation goods”. This paper reviews 19...
Scoping study – Emergency cash transfer programming in the WaSH and shelter sectors
Report
Over the past few years, the dialogue on cash transfer programming has progressed beyond initial debates about whether distributing cash and vouchers is a valid response modality at all to a general acceptance of their added value in appropriate contexts. Beyond the livelihoods and food...
A Guide to Calculating the Cost of Delivering Cash Transfers in Humanitarian Emergencies – With reference to case studies in Kenya and Somalia
Report
The emergence of cash transfers as a viable alternative to in-kind aid – such as food or shelter materials – for households affected by humanitarian disasters has been documented for some years now. Under certain conditions, when local markets are able to accommodate increased demand and prices will...
Sector Indicator Guidance for Programming
Guidelines and Tools
The country Programming Instructions that were sent to EU Delegations and HQ services in mid-May 2012 for the programming period 2014-2020, requested the EU Delegations and services to provide, in the second phase of the programming process, a description of specific objectives for proposed priority...
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...
Cash Transfer Preparedness Pilot – A Cash Transfer Programme Fact Sheet
Policy paper
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), started a project to pilot an intensive capacity building approach for cash transfer programming in four National Societies through a preparedness lens. The IFRC worked with the four pilot countries between May 2012 and...
Cash-for-shelter pilot findings in CRS’s Typhoon Haiyan Response
Report
In order to explore possible strategies for shelter assistance that would also benefit local markets, a cash transfer pilot study was conducted in which beneficiaries received cash to purchase shelter materials and to hire labourers. CRS promoted disaster-resilient construction techniques and employed a...
The CALP Network’s tools – a summary
Guidelines and Tools
This document provides an overview of the main tools created by the CALP Network to help the cash community of practice to learn about, share information and discuss cash transfer programmes. Download to find out more.
Lesotho: A Safety Net to End Extreme Poverty
Report
The objective of this study is to help the government to decide what role safety net and transfer programs should play in the coming 5 to 10 years. It seeks to answer three questions: Can increased spending on transfers accelerate poverty reduction in the medium to long term? Which groups and aspects of...
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...
Response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Report
When used appropriately, cash-based interventions can have
multiplier effects in helping to meet peoples’ needs in food,
shelter, non-food items, health, nutrition and education, protecting
or rebuilding livelihoods, facilitating the return and reintegration of
displaced people, and stimulating the...
Emergency Relief Coordinator’s Key Messages On Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda
Report
Emergency Relief Coordinator’s Key Messages On Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda
CSC ATM and Card & WFP E-Card (electronic voucher)
Report
Explaining the 2 card system
Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan
Report
Situation Report No. 14 (as of 20 November 2013)
Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan Action Plan
Report
On the morning of 8 November, category 5 Typhoon Haiyan (locally
known as Yolanda) made a direct hit on the Philippines, a densely
populated country of 92 million people, devastating areas in 36 provinces.
Haiyan is possibly the most powerful storm ever recorded. The typhoon
first made landfall at Guiuan,...
Cash Emergency Preparedness (CEP) Assessment: Myanmar
Policy paper
Cash transfer programming (CTP) in emergencies is not new in Myanmar, with the first examples going back at least to Cyclone Nargis in 2009. CTP has also been used in humanitarian settings such as Kachin State. However, CTP is not yet being widely used for the current conflict context in Rakhine State due...
Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition
Report
Research on the relationship between women’s empowerment and nutrition, particularly child nutrition, is continually expanding. As part of the quest to achieve gender equality, women’s empowerment has
increasingly been the focus of many development interventions. In addition to being an end goal in...
Examining Protection and Gender in Cash and Voucher Transfers
Case Study
With cash and voucher transfers increasing as a form of humanitarian assistance, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) teamed up to study the potential protection and gender impact of such transfers. While much research had been done about economic and market impacts of cash and...
Global Learning Event Report: Cash transfer programming and preparedness
Report
As the investment in cash transfer programming (CTP) continues to grow, there is a desire to find ways to carry out this approach faster, more often and more effectively. As a result, the integration of CTP into preparedness and contingency planning is becoming more important. A global learning event on...
Is Cash Transfer Programming “Fit for the Future”? – Report from the Trends Analysis Meeting
Report
This discussion document has been produced following the Trends Analysis Meeting, held by the Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP), King’s College London, under the auspices of The Cash learning Partnership’s The Future of Cash Transfer Programming initiative. Please see Annex 1 for a summary of the...