British Red Cross
14 January 2020
Contributions
Onward Bound: Evaluating Cash and Voucher Assistance for Migrants on Sahel’s Migration Trail – Research and learnings from the Sahel region
Report
This research – a collaboration between the British Red Cross and Samuel Hall – provides evidence on the opportunities and challenges to integrate cash and vouchers assistance (CVA) as a support modality in migration programming in the context of transit migration in the Sahel. While CVA has become increasingly common and popular among implementing agencies and donors, there is limited...
18 July 2023
Strengthening locally led humanitarian action through cash preparedness
Report
This research, produced by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s Cash Hub and CashCap, looks at the links between CVA and localisation to understand how cash, and cash preparedness, can help to further localisation and strengthen locally led humanitarian action. It examines three questions:
1) How can CVA help to strengthen National Societies’ voice and influence?
2) Does building CVA...
31 August 2021
Humanitarian Cash Transfers and Financial Inclusion
Report
A case study on Kenya Red Cross Humanitarian Cash Transfers and Financial Inclusion along the Kenyan Coast. The study examines the extent to which humanitarian e-transfer beneficiaries increase their access and use of formal financial services and products such as payments, savings, credit or insurance.
February 2018
Cash Programming Fact Sheet
Report
A cash programming fact sheet demonstrating cash intervention in Kenya funded by EU Humanitarian Aid (ECHO). The program objective was to increase access to humanitarian assistance for vulnerable and drought-affected populations in the ASAL counties of Kenya.
2018
British Virgin Islands Joint Cash Platform Evaluation: Building an evidence base on operational models for the delivery of cash transfer programming
Report
The main aim of this evaluation is to map out and analyse aspects of the British Virgin Islands Joint Cash Platform (JCP) Operational Model (OM) influencing key drivers of MPG response quality analysing aspects of effectiveness, efficiency and accountability. The study methodology is based on the CALP Network’s Analytical Framework on Operational Models for the delivery of Cash Transfer...
2018
British Virgin Islands Joint Cash Platform: Case study for learning on collaborative cash programmes
Report
The British Virgin Island (BVI) Joint Delivery Platform (JCP) is an effective model for learning around collaboration, developed at the onset of the humanitarian response, to deliver a small-scale emergency and early recovery cash based response, in a context without previous cash response experience. The BVI JCP mission statement was “using an economy of scale, partners can reach more...
2018
Cash Learning Partnership
Guidelines and Tools
The CALP Network aims to ensure that, by the end of 2015, timely humanitarian response will routinely consider appropriate and accountable
cash transfer programmes at scale.
2015
Case Study: Preparing to Implement Relief Cash Transfer Programming at Scale
Case Study
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) worked with four pilot countries namely the Philippine Red Cross, the Vietnam Red Cross Society, the Senegalese Red Cross Society and the Chilean Red Cross, between May 2012 and December 2013 to support them with training and coaching, ensuring cash transfers and market assessment are embedded into their existing...
2014
CTP factsheet – Chilean Red Cross – cash transfer preparedness pilot
Report
The IFRC worked with four pilot countries between May 2012 and December 2013 to enable the National Societies to use cash transfer programming to address relief needs at scale, implementing it more rapidly and targeting a larger number of households. The Chilean Red Cross was one of the four National Societies chosen for the pilot.
2014
CTP factsheet – Philippine Red Cross – cash transfer preparedness pilot
Report
The IFRC worked with four pilot countries between May 2012 and December 2013 to enable the National Societies to use cash transfer programming to address relief needs at scale, implementing it more rapidly and targeting a larger number of households. The Philippine Red Cross was one of the four National Societies chosen for the pilot.
2014
Case Study: Unconditional cash transfers response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Report
Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful storm ever recorded, first made landfall in the morning of 8 November 2013 in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, causing extensive damage to life, housing, livelihoods and infrastructure across nine of the Philippines’ provinces. The islands of Leyte and Samar were among the hardest hit where 90 per cent of the infrastructure of Leyte’s largest urban centre,...
2014
Cash transfer programming – an introduction (low resolution video)
Video
Since 2010, the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department has been supporting a partnership between IFRC, the CALP Network and British Red Cross. The partnership seeks to use cash where it’s appropriate and to help ensure that the humanitarian community has the skills and knowledge needed for effective programming to deliver aid quickly and at-scale to those...
2014
The CALP Network Level 2 Training – Module 2 – When to use cash transfers?
Guidelines and Tools
The objective of the Level 2 training is to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors in cash transfer programme design and implementation, to share recent research and learning, and encourage advocacy, institutionalisation and coordination in cash transfer programming (CTP). This training follows the project cycle and addresses the challenges and tools to be put in place at each step of...
2014
Cash Transfer Preparedness Pilot – A Cash Transfer Programme Fact Sheet
Policy paper
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), started a project to pilot an intensive capacity building approach for cash transfer programming in four National Societies through a preparedness lens. The IFRC worked with the four pilot countries between May 2012 and December 2013 to enable the National Societies to use cash transfer programming to address...
2014
CTP factsheet – Senegalese Red Cross – cash transfer preparedness pilots
Report
The IFRC worked with four pilot countries between May 2012 and December 2013 to enable the National Societies to use cash transfer programming to address relief needs at scale, implementing it more rapidly and targeting a larger number of households. The Senegalese Red Cross was one of the four National Societies chosen for the pilot.
2014
The CALP Network Level 2 Training – Module 1 – An Introduction to CTP
Guidelines and Tools
The objective of the Level 2 training is to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors in cash transfer programme design and implementation, to share recent research and learning, and encourage advocacy, institutionalisation and coordination in cash transfer programming (CTP). This training follows the project cycle and addresses the challenges and tools to be put in place at each step of...
2014
The CALP Network Level 2 Training – Module 3 – Selecting, designing and implementing CTPs
Guidelines and Tools
The objective of the Level 2 training is to strengthen the capacity of humanitarian actors in cash transfer programme design and implementation, to share recent research and learning, and encourage advocacy, institutionalisation and coordination in cash transfer programming (CTP). This training follows the project cycle and addresses the challenges and tools to be put in place at each step of...
2014
Global Learning Event: Coordination of Cash Transfer Programming in Emergencies
Report
The CALP Network convened a learning event, hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society on 27th November 2012, to explore the issue of the coordination of cash
transfers in emergencies. The meeting provided a platform for dialogue with actors from the UN system, NGOs, donors and other stakeholders.
27 November 2012
Niger: Unconditional cash transfers in Tanout
Case Study
This case study documents the one time unconditional cash transfer programme carried out by the British Red Cross, for households vulnerable to food insecurity, as part of its overall emergency and recovery project following the 2004/5 Food crisis in Niger. It details the context, situational analysis, response analysis, programme rationale and a summary of the programme itself. It goes on to...
2011
Cash transfers for livelihoods in Eastern Sri Lanka
Case Study
This case study looks at the British Red Cross’ intervention in Eastern Sri Lanka, following the Tsunami, whereby resettled households were provided with the cash equivalent of a food ration in order to bridge the gap before the next harvest and resumption of livelihood activities. The paper discusses the context, situation analysis, response analysis, rationale for choosing response and...
2011
Cash Delivery Service Providers in Zimbabwe
Report
Over the past few years Zimbabwe has witnessed a significant increase in the use of cash transfers within policies and programs providing humanitarian aid. This has resulted is an increasing desire on the part of humanitarian agencies to partner with private sector financial service providers in the delivery of cash to the beneficiaries within relief and recovery programs. In order to...
2011
Learning from Cash Responses to the Tsunami: Issue Paper 6: Monitoring and Evaluation
Report
This is the last of six issue papers which form part of a project to document learning around cash-based responses to the Indian Ocean tsunami. The project was funded by the British Red Cross, Save the Children UK, Oxfam GB, Mercy Corps and Concern Worldwide. This Issue Paper focuses on the question of how to monitor and evaluate cash transfer programmes, with special reference to the learning...
2011
The Impact of Cash Transfers on Local Markets: A Case Study of Unstructured Markets in Northern Uganda
Case Study
This report explores the effects of cash transfers on local markets. It tests the hypothesis that ‘cash transfers to poor households lead to integration of markets in remote areas and strengthen existing well-integrated market systems’. To test the hypothesis, a case study was conducted in Northern Uganda to assess the effect of cash transfers on unstructured markets. The case study is...
April 2010
Delivering money: Cash transfer mechanisms in emergencies
Report
This report documents lessons learned in cash transfer programming in emergencies, with a particular focus on the practicalities of how to deliver money to beneficiaries. It provides guidance for project managers needing to make choices about how to efficiently and effectively deliver cash, and explores the many different delivery mechanisms available, including newer approaches such as mobile...
2010
A summary of the British Red Cross cash grants for livelihood recovery in Aceh, Indonesia
Case Study
From April 2005 to June 2008, the British Red Cross Society (BRCS) disbursed more than USD 10 million in cash grants directly to over 10,000 tsunami-affected people in Aceh to support the recovery of their predominantly agriculture and fisheries-based livelihoods. This study draws lessons from the rich experiences of the British Red Cross livelihoods programme in Aceh to inform and strengthen...
2008
Learning from cash responses to the tsunami: Issue Paper 4: Cash and shelter
Report
This is the fourth of six issue papers which form part of a project to document learning around cash-based responses to the Indian Ocean tsunami. The project was funded by the British Red Cross, Save the Children UK, Oxfam GB, Mercy Corps and Concern Worldwide. This Issue Paper highlights some of the key factors to consider in thinking about the role of cash in shelter responses. Key topics...
September 2006
Learning from cash responses to the tsunami: Issue Paper 5: Livelihoods recovery
Report
This is the fifth of six issue papers which form part of a project to document learning around cash-based responses to the Indian Ocean tsunami. The project was funded by the British Red Cross, Save the Children UK, Oxfam GB, Mercy Corps and Concern Worldwide. This Issue Paper looks at the use of cash in support of livelihoods recovery. Key issues to consider include: What are the objectives...
September 2006
Learning from cash responses to the tsunami: Issue Paper 2: Disbursement mechanisms
Report
This is the second of six issue papers which form part of a project to document learning around cash-based responses to the Indian Ocean tsunami. The project was funded by the British Red Cross, Save the Children UK, Oxfam GB, Mercy Corps and Concern Worldwide. This 5-page Issue Paper examines the disbursement options available to agencies making cash payments. It discusses key issues such as:...
September 2006
Learning from cash responses to the tsunami: Issue Paper 1: Analysing markets
Report
This is the first of six issue papers which form part of a project to document learning around cash-based responses to the Indian Ocean tsunami. The project was funded by the British Red Cross, Save the Children UK, Oxfam GB, Mercy Corps and Concern Worldwide. This 5-page Issue Paper explores the broad lines of the importance of market analysis in the planning, delivery and management of cash...
September 2006
Learning from cash responses to the tsunami: Issue paper 3: Setting the value
Report
This is the third of six issue papers which form part of a project to document learning around cash-based responses to the Indian Ocean tsunami. The project was funded by the British Red Cross, Save the Children UK, Oxfam GB, Mercy Corps and Concern Worldwide. A key question in the design of cash transfer programmes is how much money to give people. This 5-page Issue Paper explores the...
September 2006
ODI/UNDP Cash Learning Project Workshop in Aceh, Indonesia
Case Study
This is a report from a workshop on sharing experiences and learning for cash-based interventions. The workshop was held in Aceh, Indonesia in July 2005. The workshop included case studies from Mercy Corps, Panglima Laot, Save the Children, British Red Cross, Swiss Development Corporation, Oxfam and others. It also included themed presentations on cash disbursement, transparency and...
2005
