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Report from the Inaugural Markets and WaSH Learning Event
Report
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions that took place during a learning event on market-based programming targeting key humanitarian stakeholders in the WaSH sector. Held on October 13, 2015 at the IFRC office in Nairobi, the event was organized under the umbrella of the Markets in...
Part 1.4 Protection Risk and Benefits Analysis
Report
All humanitarian interventions carry risks, even in-kind delivery of goods and services. Cash programming is no exception. Specific areas of risk include:
Safety and dignity.
Humanitarian access to crisis-affected populations.
Crisis-affected populations’ access to aid.
Data protection and beneficiary...
Cash Competency Development Framework
Guidelines and Tools
There is no recognized or recorded competency base for cash transfers. Based on research, good practice and experience, Avenir Analytics has ascertained that there are five competency areas as an organisation needs to address to effectively and efficiently use cash transfers as a tool.
Can Emergency Cash Transfers ‘Piggyback’ on Existing Social Protection Programmes?
Policy paper
This background note focuses on the current discussion among actors in the humanitarian and social protection sectors regarding the use of existing social protection programmes to provide an emergency response. It outlines the overlaps between social protection and humanitarian responses, considers a...
Rapid Humanitarian Assessment in Urban Settings
Guidelines and Tools
This Technical Brief is intended to be a starting point for improving coordinated needs assessments in urban areas, without which the humanitarian community will not be able to ensure the quality and accountability of urban response itself. It provides guidance on carrying out joint rapid assessments of...
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...
Operational Guidance And Toolkit For Multipurpose Cash Grants: Operational Feasibility
Guidelines and Tools
Operational Feasibility as defined in the Multi-sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) considers national and local capacities and response,
and international capacity, access, security, etc. In this toolkit, we add to this a more detailed market analysis, a risks and benefits analysis from an...
Cash Transfer Programming Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool (CTP OCAT) To Support The Institutionalization Of Cash Transfer Programming
Report
Since the inception of CTP in emergencies, organizations have looked individually and collaboratively to put systems in place and share good practices for quality CTP. While the CALP Network has been supportive on the uptake of CTP broadly and the development of tools, organizational capacity building has...
Kit for Autonomous Cash transfer in Humanitarian Emergencies (KACHE)
Guidelines and Tools
The present document reports the development of the Kit for Autonomous Cash transfer in Humanitarian Emergencies (KACHE), built upon Red Rose ONE system© supported by the WFP’s Cooperating Partners’ Innovation Fund (CPIF). Firstly, it gives a brief description of the main features of the kit....
Annex 4: Examples of questions for household, community and focus group discussions
Report
It is recommended to include the following six questions in the community questionnaire. Questions 1 & 2 are useful for guiding the trader survey team to the relevant local markets. The third question allows drawing up a village profile, and may alter the recommendations of the assessment team if markets...
Humanitarian Cash Transfers: Cost, value for money and economic impact
Policy paper
The question of how much it costs to assist a person with humanitarian aid is a simple question that is surprisingly difficult to answer, even when looking at a single organisation’s humanitarian response. It is challenging to get the ‘full cost’ of humanitarian assistance – meaning all of the...
Strategies and Options for Scaling Up and Enhancing the Child Grant Nationally in Nepal
Policy paper
The objective of this study is to offer to the Government of Nepal (GoN) a set of reflections and options regarding the continuation, scale-up and enhancement of the Child Grant (CG), a cash transfer program for children under the age of 5 introduced by the GoN in 2009. While the original intention was to...
Cash Transfer Programming: Feasibility and appropriateness in the context of IOCC´s humanitarian response to refugee and migrants´ crisis in Greece [Kos and Chios Island]
Report
This paper aims at assessing the feasibility and appropriateness of cash transfers programming (CTP) within the operational areas of International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) and their humanitarian response activities to the refugees and migrants´crisis on the Greek Islands Chios and...
Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2015
Report
Humanitarian financing is in the spotlight like never before. An extraordinary combination of crises continues to test international, national and local capacity to prevent, prepare and respond as needs continue to outstrip available resources. Global processes taking place during 2015 and 2016 –...
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...
Guidance Notes: Cash Transfers in Livelihoods Programming- West Africa
Guidelines and Tools
A growing acceptance of cash transfers as an inter-sectorial tool is accompanied by a better understanding of this approach and its potential to break the cycle of poverty, after much discussion on the role cash transfers have to play in building resilience. In the Sahel, food security experts have...
Guide for Protection in Cash based Interventions
Guidelines and Tools
This guide identifies minimum necessary information and key resources needed to help humanitarian practitioners ensure that protection risks and benefits are considered and monitored throughout the cash-based interventions (CBI) program cycle, using a community-based approach and participatory methods as...
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...
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...
Protection Risks and Benefits Analysis Tool
Report
This tool provides global evidence on the protection risks and benefits of cash-based interventions, divided into key protection areas. It outlines the key questions that practitioners should explore to reach a context-specific, participatory identification of protection risks and benefits of a given...