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Checking Back – Using Cash and Vouchers in Somalia: Recommendations from the 2011-12 Somalia Drought Response
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This paper brings together recommendations from some of the key reports and evaluations from the 2011 Somalia drought response. The process of preparing this paper involved reviewing 17 reports and identifying five that had recommendations which could be useful for all agencies involved the current...
Landscape Report: Mobile Money, Humanitarian Cash Transfers and Displaced Populations
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Over the past decade, natural disasters and complex emergencies have led to a sharp increase in the need for humanitarian assistance. By the end of 2015, an estimated 65.3 million people were forcibly displaced globally, due to conflict and persecution. That same year, natural disasters caused the...
Cash Transfer Programming: Lessons from northern Iraq
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In situations of conflict, disaster and protracted crisis, displaced persons not only face physical threats but are also confronted with the challenge of economic survival. High levels of general unemployment or legal barriers to labour market entry often restrict access to jobs and income, and...
The Financial Journey of Refugees Full Report
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This document details how refugees and migrants from the Middle East, South and Central Asia and East, West and North Africa finance their journeys and manage money along the way.
Targeting vulnerable households for humanitarian cash transfers: using a community based, participatory approach to target the most vulnerable in Zimbabwe’s cash-first response
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Over 73,000 drought affected households across 15 districts in Zimbabwe received monthly multi-purpose, unconditional cash transfers. With such a large caseload over a wide area, 100% verification of the households would not have been the most resource efficient approach. Moreover, there would have been a...
Can E-Transfers Promote Financial Inclusion in Emergencies: A Case Study from Ethiopia
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The Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) launched this research to build an evidence base around connecting emergency electronic transfer (e-transfer) recipients with additional financial
services. They also wanted to learn if, when, and how e-transfers can promote sustained uptake and...
Challenging the System: Humanitarian Cash Transfers in Iraq
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Cash transfers have been used in Iraq to meet the critical basic needs of a highly vulnerable population, providing them dignity and flexibility in a context of uncertainty and economic need. Although Iraq is an appropriate context for the use of cash transfers, factors including government acceptance,...
Fitting aid to context: community experiences of aid delivery in northern Syria
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The ongoing conflict in Syria has left 13.5 million Syrians in need of humanitarian assistance. Several local and international organisations provide aid to northern Syria, but their chosen modalities fail to effectively meet community members’ needs. While aiming to respond to immediate short-term...
Learning Event Report: Multipurpose cash and protection for south sudanese refugees in Bidibi refugee settlement Uganda
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A consortium of partners comprising DanChurchAid (DCA), Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) and Mercy Corps (MC) have been implementing an 8-month Cash-based Interventions and Protection (MHPSS) response for South Sudanese refugees in Bidibidi settlement. The response was aimed at addressing...
Humanitarian Cash Transfers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is at a crossroads with regard to cash transfers. On the one hand, cash has been accepted by most donors and aid agencies as an appropriate response, with solid evidence underpinning its use. Aid agencies have driven important innovations in an environment where...
Aid in context: the importance of market-based approaches to aid delivery in northern Syria
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With the Syrian conflict now in its seventh year, 13.5 million Syrians need humanitarian aid. But aid in northern Syria focuses inflexibly on food kits that are expensive to administer, designed to satisfy short-term needs.
Many people sell their food aid to pay for other urgent needs. This
undermines...
Baseline Survey for Project Output and Livelihoods Support Assessment
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This report highlights the baseline findings of the UNHCR funded project “Increased self-reliance through cash interventions and livelihoods support to conflict-affected South Sudanese refugees in Bidibidi refugee settlement and host communities in Yumbe District in Uganda” implemented by...
La Protection Sociale à Madagascar – Le Cas des Programmes de Transferts Monétaires: Capacité de réponse aux chocs et options pour l’harmonisation
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This study was undertaken as commissioned by the Government of Madagascar (Ministry of Population, Social protection and Women’s Promotion and the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management) in coordination with the members of the emergency cash group and with UNICEF’s funding and technical...
Cash Transfers for Refugees – An Opportunity to Bridge the Gap Between Humanitarian Assistance and Social protection
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The world is now experiencing the biggest refugee crisis since the second world war. Many of the countries with the highest outflow of refugees are facing ongoing conflicts that are unlikely to end anytime soon. In fact, most displacement crises are protracted, with 80% lasting ten years or more. The...
Electronic Transfers in Humanitarian Assistance and Uptake of Financial Services
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The Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) undertook case studies on humanitarian electronic transfer (‘e-transfer’) projects in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. The case studies examine the extent to which: recipients used digital financial services (e.g. money transfers, savings,...
Cash Transfers and Older People’s Access to Healthcare: A Multi-Country Study in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
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This report presents the findings of the Social Protection and Access to Health Services for Older People in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe study into the relationship between cash transfers and older people’s access to health services, carried out by Development Action on behalf of...
Adaptable and effective: Cash in the face of multi-dimensional crisis
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A summary of the learnings and recommendations from an internal and external evaluation of the Emergency Cash-First Response to Drought-Affected Communities in the Southern Provinces of Zimbabwe project which was carried out from August 2015 to May 2017. The external evaluation was carried out by Oxford...
Promoting positive parenting practices in Niger through a cash transfer programme
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In 2011, the Government of Niger set up a national social safety net
programme – the ‘Projet Filets Sociaux’. It includes unconditional cash transfers as well as behavioural change measures to promote investments in children. Lessons from programme implementation and evaluations so far highlight...
Review of the Common Cash Facility approach in Jordan
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Jordan has pioneered a collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach to the delivery of cash, known as the Common Cash Facility (CCF). The aim of the CCF is to provide humanitarian actors with direct and equal access to a common financial service...
Multisectoral Basic Needs and Market Assessment Moyo Uganda
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A multisectoral basic needs and market assessment done in Palorinya settlement and the host communities within Moyo district. Focuses are on basic needs and cash feasibility, the education system gaps, the firewood issues and access to loans and credit.
Data were gathered in December 2017, with...
