Mitigating Risks of Abuse of Power in Cash Assistance – 4 pages

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UNHCR and WFP are implementing a joint project to identify and mitigate risks of abuse by private sector service providers in their delivery of cash assistance to vulnerable populations. The project involves work with financial service providers, traders and other private sector stakeholders, as well as...

November 2019

Mitigating Risks of Abuse of Power in Cash Assistance – Workshop Nairobi, Kenya

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UNHCR and WFP are implementing a joint project to identify and mitigate risks of abuse of power by private sector service providers in the delivery
of cash assistance to vulnerable populations. The workshop, held in Nairobi on 10-11 December 2018, followed visits to the first two pilot countries,...

December 2018

Mitigating Risks Of Abuse Of Power In Cash Assistance In The Democratic Republic Of Congo

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This document outlines lessons learned from a joint UNHCR/WFP project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with the aim to, with Financial Service Providers (FSPs), identify and mitigate the risks of abuse of power in cash assistance, including through cash in hand, pre-paid cards and mobile money.

November 2018

Lessons Learnt from the Ebola Crisis in West Africa: a focus on Cash Transfer Programming

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Beyond opportunities for CTP to support communities’ economic recovery, restore livelihoods and address food insecurity generated by epidemics, what are CTP applications that can facilitate / strengthen / speed up response to epidemics? Those recommendations have been put together by the CALP Network...

2018

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...

2017

2016 Plan De Reponse Humanitaire

Rapport

L’analyse de la crise, menée par la communauté humanitaire à travers tout le pays, a permis de dégager ses principaux moteurs ainsi que ses manifestations les plus importantes :
• L’Ouest du pays n’est pas épargné.
Bien que l’Est de la RDC demeure la partie du pays la plus frappée par la...

December 2016

Using Cash for Shelter: An Overview of CRS Programs

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Cash continues to gain prevalence as a modality for humanitarian agencies to help people meet multiple and diverse needs in the wake of a crisis. It provides people with the dignity of choice, and is often significantly more cost-efficient than the delivery of in-kind aid. In programs with a shelter...

2016

Voices and Views of Beneficiaries on Unconditional Cash Transfers – Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal and the Philippines

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Providing cash in humanitarian emergencies is expanding and the topic is well under discussion within the humanitarian sector with topics ranging from high-level consideration of cash as a tool to transform humanitarian aid, the significance of cash as a way to support beneficiary choice and dignity...

2015

Tigo Cash Senegal

Guides et outils

Mobile Cash S.A (“MCSA”) was created in 2012 as a subsidiary of the Millicom group, it obtained its EME license from bceao following the decision of February 13, 2014 under the number “EME. SN 005/2013. Mobile Cash S.A. is therefore authorized to issue and distribute electronic money to a clientele...

2015

Cash Working Group (Groupe de Travail Assistance monétaire) à l’EST de la RD Congo

Guides et outils

November 2014

Cheaper, Faster, Better? A case study of new technologies in cash transfers from the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Over the past decade, there has been a growing consensus in the humanitarian community that cash, as compared to in-kind aid, is the best form of assistance to provide during an emergency. For families that have been displaced by a crisis or natural disaster, cash offers aid recipients more flexibility...

November 2014

DRC Cash and Vouchers Food Security Evaluation (2014)

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People in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have long faced protracted conflict and instability resulting in the displacement of populations. In order to provide households affected by new displacements with timely access to food, ECHO funded the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the Association...

2014

NRC – EMMA on Credit, Rental and Water Market Systems, Urban Goma, DRC, Nov 2014 – Executive Summary

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Hundreds of thousands of people are continuously forced to flee violence in eastern DRC due to armed groups attacks and inter-ethnic conflict. In the Kivus, the majority of the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) have been in a state of protracted and repeated displacement for many years. Urban IDP...

2014

Evaluation of ECHO-Funded Cash and Voucher Food Assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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People in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have long faced protracted conflict and instability resulting in the displacement of populations. In order to provide households affected by new displacements with timely access to food, ECHO funded the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the Association...

2014

Étude de cas du CALP Network – Foires aux coupons pour les biens non alimentaires dans le territoire de Walikale, au Nord-Kivu, en République démocratique du Congo (RDC)

Case Study

Afin de répondre à une situation d’urgence soudaine, l’UNICEF et Solidarités International ont eu recours à une approche monétaire par le biais de coupons dans les villages de Nyasi et Bobolo, dans le territoire de Walikale, au Nord-Kivu, en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Dans le...

2014

Cash or Coupons? Testing the impacts of cash transfers versus vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Despite the increased use of conditional and unconditional cash-transfer programs worldwide, a majority of social protection programs in both developed and developing countries use in-kind transfers and vouchers. This paper reports the results of a randomized evaluation of an unconditional cash transfer...

2013

Evaluation of Concern Worldwide’s Emergency Response in Masisi, North Kivu, DRC (2012-2013)

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Populations in eastern DRC have faced serious humanitarian consequences resulting from years of conflict and instability. In Masisi territory in the province of North Kivu, Concern Worldwide has provided emergency assistance since 2008 in order to respond to humanitarian needs created by cycles of...

2013