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Cash grants in Upper Sindh flood response 2010
Case Study
This case study and paper summarises Oxfam’s experience with unconditional cash grants to 20,000 households in response to the flooding in Upper Sindh, Pakistan in 2010. It retrospectively documents the Oxfam project, emphasising issues relevant to a wide practitioner audience interested in experience...
Understanding and Strengthening Informal Seed Markets
Report
Informal markets receive little attention from governments and researchers, despite their centrality to farmers’ seed security. This paper documents the importance of informal markets for supplying seed and restocking critical plant genetic resources in normal and stress periods. It analyses farmers’...
Cash transfers in emergencies: A practical field guide
Guidelines and Tools
A practical and user-friendly field guide for using cash to meet the needs of older people. This guide covers deciding if cash is appropriate, conducting initial assessments and market analysis, identifying beneficiaries and amounts, preparing the community and implementing cash transfers. The purpose of...
Guidelines for cash interventions in Somalia
Guidelines and Tools
These guidelines are intended for all agencies operating in Somalia to represent a common approach to cash transfer programming for food security and livelihood activities in Somalia. The guidelines outline the minimum acceptable standards for cash interventions and provide the justification for...
Responding to High Food Prices: Evidence from a Voucher Programme in Burkina Faso
Report
In February 2009, WFP launched its first food voucher operation in Africa, to address food security in an urban environment where food is available but beyond the reach of many because of high food prices. Vulnerable segments of the population, who were spending most of their budgets on food, risked...
Etude de faisabilite et propositions pour la mise en oeuvre d’un projet pilote filet social se securite par transfert direct en especes au Niger
Rapport
L’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser la faisabilité de la mise en oeuvre au Niger d’un projet pilote de transfert direct en espèces qui aura pour but la réduction de la pauvreté et de l’insécurité alimentaire et de formuler des propositions opérationnelles pour sa mise un place. A...
Plan d´action de filets sociaux pour le Niger
Rapport
Ce travail résulte d’un certain nombre de missions de suivi d’une étude sur « La sécurité alimentaire et les filets sociaux » effectuées au Niger en 2008. Il s’agit d’approfondir la réflexion sur les questions essentielles relatives à l’élaboration d’une stratégie de sécurité...
Les Filets de Sécurité Sociale au Niger
Rapport
L’étude a été commandite par la Cellule de Crises Alimentaires (CCA) du Cabinet du Premier Ministre, qui a délégué le Secrétariat Exécutif de la Stratégie du Développement Rural à la supervision. Il fait partie d’une série d’études coordonnées par un comité national de pilotage et...
WFP Global Workshop on Cash and Vouchers
Report
This document provides a summary and synthesis of key outcomes and emerging priorities. It also provides a summary of the current status of voucher and cash programming in WFP. A discussion of key emerging cross-cutting issues follows. Strategic priorities for WFP voucher and cash programming and policy...
Cash Transfers in Post-conflict Contexts
Report
This ODI project briefing looks at the implementation for the design of cash programmes in post-conflict or fragile states, compared to those of peaceful and stable countries. It highlights examples from Sierra Leone and Nepal drawing lessons from existing programmes, examines the contribution to poverty...
Cash Transfers in Emergencies: The case of Indonesia and Vietnam
Case Study
In October 2009, typhoon Ketsana brought heavy rains over Vietnam causing sudden and heavy flooding, which led to considerable loss of lives, shelters and livelihoods. Around the same time, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck the island of Sumatra in Indonesia causing massive loss of...
Cash For Work: A Contribution to the International Debate based on Lessons Learnt in Northern Afghanistan
Case Study
The purpose of this study was to document learning from BMZ finance cash for work (CFW) projects implemented by GTZ in Afghanistan as a contribution to international debates about cash transfer approaches. The operations of the GTZ CFW scheme in Northern Afghanistan are financed by the German Federal...
An independent evaluation of Concern Worldwide’s emergency response in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: Responding to displacement with vouchers and fairs
Case Study
In late 2008, escalated fighting among rebels and the Congolese Armed Forces (FARCD) provoked renewed and widespread displacement in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In response to the unfolding crisis, Concern Worldwide implemented the project Emergency Assistance to Newly...
Do CCT programmes have a pro-poor spillover effect?
Report
This one pager looks at the indirect impact of cash transfer programmes on the food consumption of households which have not received a transfer, but are within the same village as households which have. The paper looks at why this occurs, using evidence from Mexico to show that this phenomena in indeed...
Lessons Learned from the Post Election Violence Early Recovery Programme in Kenya 2008-2009
Case Study
The Kenya Post Election Violence (PEV) Early Recovery Programme was an ECHO-supported response by six international NGOs to the ethnic and political violence which severely affected livelihoods in the Rift Valley, Nyanza and Central Provinces after the disputed national elections in late December 2007....
Une note de synthèse sur la prise en compte de l’accès économique aux vivres et du pouvoir d’achat dans la compréhension de la sécurité alimentaire au Niger
Rapport
Les pauvres du Niger rural, qu’ils soient cultivateurs ou pasteurs, sont aujourd’hui fortement dépendants du marché pour leur nourriture et pour d’autres produits de première nécessité, et leur pouvoir d’achat est donc un aspect crucial de leur vulnérabilité aux chocs de la production ou du...
Fresh food vouchers for refugees in Kenya
Report
Read the report here This article in Field Exchange magazine outlines an intervention by ACF in Dadaab to improve the nutritional intake and dietary diversity of the refugee population of Dadaab, Kenya, through a complementary food voucher scheme targeted at malnourished children.
Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis (MIFIRA)
Report
This paper outlines the importance and rationale for agencies to undertake a “response analysis” before choosing an appropriate programme delivery mechanism to a humanitarian situation. The Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis (MIFIRA) framework is introduced. This provides a...
The Role of Cash Transfers in Post-Conflict Nepal
Report
Nepal is in the midst of a transformational process: the end of the eleven year conflict in 2006 has given way to the end of the monarchy, the development of a new Constitution, and a democratically elected government which emphasises an inclusive Nepali society. However, the peace process has been slow,...
The use of cash and vouchers in humanitarian crises: DG ECHO funding guidelines
Guidelines and Tools
A brief guide to assist programme staff in writing funding proposals for cash-based interventions. A humanitarian guidance note about cash transfer programming is also available.