DRAFT Publications in March
publications
Evidence Review: Social protection in the Pacific and Timor-Leste
Report
This review provides an overview of the available evidence on social protection in the Pacific and Timor-Leste. It is the first study of its kind, highlighting the latest evidence, key voices, information gaps, and future research opportunities. The research provides decision makers and development partners with key insights to inform social protection policy and programs in the region.
Hit and Miss: An assessment of targeting effectiveness in social protection with additional analysis
Report
This paper (now updated with additional analysis as of June 2020) is the result of a global review of the effectiveness of different methods of selecting social protection recipients, both universal and poverty-targeted social protection schemes. The work, supported by the Church of Sweden, considered the effectiveness of 38 programmes across 23 low- and middle-income countries, including...
Cash and Voucher Assistance for Health: Partner experiences in Ukraine
Report
Humanitarian cash has a long history in Ukraine and has evolved along the contours of the crisis. In December 2014, the Humanitarian Cluster Coordination System was activated following the outbreak of armed conflict in the Donetska and Luhanska oblasts earlier that year. At the time, humanitarian cash programming was a relatively new approach for many agencies in Ukraine, with limited...
Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance in Ukraine: Recommendations for a Better Cash Response
Report
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) became a cornerstone of the humanitarian response after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, providing critical support to over 6.1 million war-affected individuals in 2022, and 5.3 million in 2023. CVA support is provided to people affected by war-related idiosyncratic shocks. Unlike in-kind assistance, such as food or blankets, CVA empowers people to purchase...
Alignment and Complementarity Between Humanitarian Cash Transfers and the Social Protection System in Ukraine
Report
There are significant similarities between humanitarian cash transfer programmes and the social protection system in Ukraine, but key obstacles impede leveraging the social protection system to deliver humanitarian cash transfers. This report examines the alignment and complementarity between humanitarian cash transfers and Ukraine’s national social protection system in meeting the needs of...
UNFPA Cash Assistance in Ukraine: Providing cash within GBV case management and to support pregnant and lactating women in times of conflict
Report
Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) has proven to be feasible and effective in contributing to the humanitarian response in Ukraine since 2022. UNFPA Ukraine has focused its cash assistance on its two main mandate areas for women and girls in emergencies: gender-based violence (GBV) response, through survivor-centered GBV case management, and meeting sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs....
Digitizing Cash Transfers to Remote Rural Populations: Challenges and solutions from the experience of Zambia
Report
There is currently a major focus on digitization within African countries, with the interest of, on the one hand, increasing efficiency and lowering the cost-of-service delivery, and on the other hand, increasing financial inclusion for excluded parts of the population. Zambia provides an important case study of digitization of social protection transfers. Whilst Zambia is sparsely populated...
Assessing the Impact and Lessons from Cash Plus Interventions in Humanitarian Contexts in Mozambique
Report
In 2023, Save the Children became the first NGO in Mozambique to launch multiple Cash Plus pilot projects. Cash Plus initiatives combine household cash transfers with complementary interventions to address the various drivers of childhood deprivation and maximise outcomes for children. Save the Children implemented these projects to support children’s education and nutrition in Cabo Delgado...
Post-distribution Monitoring: Cash for protection
Report
This PDM survey, conducted by Türk Kızılay, evaluated the effectiveness, accessibility, and impact of the CfP assistance provided to individuals following the February 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye. The survey collected insights from individuals across the most affected provinces, focusing on their experiences and satisfaction with the support they received. The results show that...
Mini Guide: Design an adolescent responsive cash voucher assistance programme
Guidelines and Tools
Use this mini-guide to design an adolescent-responsive cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programme.
The Use of Multisectoral Electronic Vouchers to Reduce Protection Risks for People in Transit in Colombia
Report
This best practice document describes ZOA Colombia's journey towards better protection programming for people in transit in the migration setting in Colombia. By using multisectoral e-vouchers, people in transit are served as quickly as possible to cover their most urgent protection needs along the different migration trails in the country.
The document includes experiences of people in...
Gaza Rapid Market Assessment (August 2024)
Report
The Rapid Market Assessment in Gaza was a collaborative effort led by the operational and technical teams of Save the Children, CRS, and Mercy Corps, with Save the Children coordinating the overall process. On-site data collection was carried out by these organizations along with the Arab World Research & Development (AWRAD), while analysis and final report review were jointly managed. This...
Common Donor Messages on the Cash Response to the Escalation of Hostilities in Lebanon
Report
he severe escalation of conflict in Lebanon since September 2024, resulted in a dreadful death toll, widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure, and the mass displacement of people. Many sought refuge in collective shelters, primarily repurposed public schools while others fled across the border to Syria. Following the ceasefire on 27 November 2024, internally displaced people began...
Strengthening Systems so People can Take Charge: Cash recipient experiences in Ukraine
Report
Ukraine hosts the world’s largest ever humanitarian cash response. It occurs alongside Ukrainian social and financial services that have retained their functionality despite the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022. The humanitarian cash response best supports people’s capacity to cope with the war when it is tailored to local contexts and complements existing institutional structures and...
Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCT) in the DRC: A pilot study assessing the socio-economic effects in an artisanal mining zone of Maniema Province
Report
‘Housing’ is one of the indicators that is used to measure the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) of people: a household is considered deprived regarding housing if at least one of the three materials for roof, walls or floor are inadequate. The endline study confirms a significant increase in households living in a house with metal roofs in the UCT village. Several UCT beneficiaries...
Enhancing Autonomy and Decision-making: Cash assistance for women’s health and wellbeing in post-earthquake Herat, Afghanistan
Report
On 7 October 2023, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake and several aftershocks hit western Afghanistan. The earthquake was felt across Badghis, Farah, Ghor and Herat City where it was particularly severe. The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority reported that the earthquake impacted 382 villages in 10 districts, ultimately affecting 1.6 million people, with 2,000 fatalities, 9,000 injured...
The Role of Misinformation on Cash and Voucher Assistance for Social Cohesion in Lebanon
Report
This report, commissioned from Key Aid Consulting by CAMEALEON, investigates the role of misinformation surrounding CVA in influencing perceptions and its subsequent effects on social cohesion in Lebanon. It focuses on the social cohesion between and within Lebanese and Syrian communities since the 2019 economic and financial crises in Lebanon. The study aims to contribute to mitigating the...
Endline 2023 Report Multipurpose Cash Assistance for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Post Distribution and Outcome Monitoring
Report
This report presents the endline post distribution and outcome monitoring (PDOM) results for the UNHCR multi-purpose cash assistance program (MCAP) targeting Syrian refugees in Lebanon implemented between January and November 2023.
نتائج حوار سياسة المساعدات النقدية والقسائم
تقرير
تلخص وثيقة نتائج حوار سياسة المساعدات النقدية والقسائم المناقشات والتوصيات من المشاورات التي جرت في مختلف أنحاء العالم حول مستقبل المساعدات النقدية والقسائم. وتسلط الوثيقة الضوء على الحاجة الملحة إلى تجديد التزامات...
Direct Cash Transfers to Address Loss and Damage: Principles for effective response
Guidelines and Tools
Cash transfers are a highly impactful investment in addressing loss and damage: a tool that is effective, flexible, localised and scalable enough to respond to the widespread and individualized impacts of loss and damage – economic and non-economic – in ways which put affected individuals and communities in the driving seat. Our vision is for direct, unconditional cash to be a major...