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The Link with National Social Protection Systems: A recap of our Sahel learning event
Blog Post
On April 19th and 20th, the CALP Network and the Regional Platform for Social Protection hosted a learning event exploring how humanitarian cash transfer programmes can work to support national social protection systems in the Sahel.
Read our brand new Policy Roundup here
Blog Post
This update was circulated to our policy contacts on 17 April 2018. If you would like to receive these updates via email, please contact stholstrup@cashlearning.org.
Ethiopia Acceptance And Security And Safety Overview
Report
This overview was created by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) with input by the Ethiopia Cash Working Group (ECWG) and as such is part of the overall effort to create an evidence base of the feasibility and appropriateness to use and scale-up cash transfer programming (CTP)...
Outcome Analysis: Cash transfer programming response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Report
The United States Agency for International Development/Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) supported Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) response to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and Liberia greatly contributed to the recovery of affected communities and households. The CTP response provided a safety net to...
MPG Monitoring Toolkit Development and Guidelines
Guidelines and Tools
This toolkit is designed to serve as a core resource for developing and conducting monitoring of MPG programmes. The tools themselves serve as templates and should be adapted to the local context and objectives of the specific MPG programmes to be monitored. Particular care should be taken to align...
Multipurpose Cash Grants (ERC consortium) Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Guidelines and Tools
The purpose of this document is to provide a road map of the essential components when assessing, designing, implementing and monitoring multipurpose cash grant (MPG) programmes. The Assessment and Response Option Analysis and Planning (ROAP) phases encompass the Basic Needs Approach as the key starting...
Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium – Ethiopia: Building an evidence base on operational models for the delivery of CTP
Report
The Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium for the Uptake of MPGs is formed by Save the Children, the CALP Network, Danish Refugee Council, Mercy Corps, and OCHA with ECHO financing. Its primary aim is the improvement of capacity, coordination and evidence for multi-purpose cash grants through the...
Help Us to Improve the CALP Network
Blog Post
We need your feedback to help us continue to improve our work. Please spare 10 minutes to complete this survey telling us how we can more effectively help improve the scale and quality of cash transfer programming as a tool for humanitarian assistance. The survey is open until Monday 2nd April 2018....
New Thematic Page on Gender, Protection and CTP
Blog Post
To realise the potential benefits of cash based assistance for everyone, there is need to foster dialogue between cash, gender and protection actors. Actors from different sectors need to work together, share experiences and learning, and address gaps and overlaps. This also requires improving...
Cash Based Assistance PQ Toolbox Now Live!
Blog Post
The CALP Network has developed a programme quality toolbox for cash-based assistance. The toolbox provides a set of common standards and acions for quality CBA. Each action is supported by a set of guidelines and ready to use tools and templates on 'how' to acheive quality CBA. It can be used across CBA...
Gender and Cash Based Assistance in Humanitarian Contexts: An Agenda for Collective Action
Guidelines and Tools
In February 2018, a symposium in Nairobi on “Gender and Cash Based Assistance” brought together 100 senior managers, technical advisors, researchers and other disaster management practitioners with national, regional and global mandates. An agenda for immediate action was identified.
Existing gender...
My Needs, Our Future
Report
Since the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year in Jordan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Child Cash Grant (CCG) launched its new phase, an equity-driven, integrated social protection programme for all children in Jordan called Hajati, or ‘my need’ in Arabic. The new programme built on...
Nigeria Cash Working Group (CWG) Inter-Sector Working Group (ISWG) Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) Presentation, March 2018
Presentation
Presentation to the Inter-Sector Working Group (ISWG) advocating for the use of Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) in the response in Borno state, north-east Nigeria
Greece Cash Alliance: Building an Evidence Base on Operational Models for the Delivery Of CTP
Report
The primary aim of this case study is to map out aspects of the Greece Cash Alliance (GCA) operational model influencing key drivers of quality (effectiveness, efficiency and accountability) in the delivery of multipurpose cash grants (MPGs). The GCA was launched in April 2017 with funding from ECHO, in...
Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium – Nigeria: Building an evidence base on operational models for the delivery of CTP
Report
This case study aims to review and map out how aspects of the Enhanced Response Capacity (ERC) consortium model have influenced key drivers of quality (effectiveness, efficiency and accountability) in the consortium’s Nigeria pilot. Formed at the global level in 2015, the ERC Consortium is comprised of...
Seven Steps to Scaling Cash Relief: Driving Outcomes and Efficiency
Guidelines and Tools
As we approach the mid-point of our five-year strategy, this briefing explores the way in which the IRC has embraced cash relief programming and is seeking to drive efficiencies and maximise impact. It defines seven steps that the IRC has taken to scale cash relief. It goes on to argue that...
Mission Wrap-Up: Ten Key Findings
Guidelines and Tools
Joint Donor Mission on cash programming to Jordan and Lebanon 4-8 February 2018
Targeting in social protection systems: comparative study on two “HEA” methods and a “PMT” targeting method for cash transfer programmes in Gao circle, Mali, 2016-17
Report
Social safety nets are becoming a key instrument of povery reduction policies in Sub-Saharan Africa; they are a basic element of social protection systems that include adaptive social protection. Social protection systems aim to target both chronically poor households and those who are slightly better off...
The State of the World’s Cash – Executive summary
Report
This report critically analyses the current state of CTP in humanitarian aid, and the extent to which commitments have been achieved, in order to provide shared insights that can accelerate progress.
The report is structured according to the six Global Objectives set out in the CALP Network’s Global...
The State of the World’s Cash Report – Annex: Case studies
Report
1 Nepal – scaling up cash transfer programming (CTP) after a rapid onset disaster
2 Turkey – Working with host governments to deliver cash-based assistance during the refugee crisis 3 Zimbabwe – Lessons from the ‘Emergency Cash First Response’ to drought-affected communities 4 Democratic...