Danish Refugee Council
15 January 2020
Contributions
Inter-Agency Humanitarian Cash for Work Guidelines: Afghanistan
Guidelines and Tools
Forty years of war, recurrent natural disasters, chronic poverty, drought, and the COVID-19 pandemic have left more than 24 million people in Afghanistan in need of humanitarian assistance . Over the years Afghanistan has experienced massive destruction of basic infrastructure, health and educational facilities, commercial buildings, private houses, and agricultural assets. Several assessments...
September 2022
Paving Pathways to Self-Reliance in Iraq: Exploring Referral Pathways from Cash to Livelihoods Assistance to increase program participants’ resilience in conflict-affected areas of Iraq
Report
This piece of research was commissioned to explore and identify best practices for referral pathways from MPCA to livelihoods assistance for programme participants, and subsequently to generate recommendations for programme implementers and donors. The research focused on the operational models used by CLCI partners NRC and DRC in the past for referring socio-economically vulnerable households...
February 2022
Digital economy in KRI: A market study
Report
The objective of the research was to assess the opportunities and challenges for digital technologies to promote economic growth and employment creation for host communities and refugees in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The findings of this report will then be used to design curricula for digital skills which will be implemented at the public vocational training centres of KRI.
2 March 2021
Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis: Linking humanitarian Cash and Social Protection in practise
Report
This paper seeks to demonstrate practical ways in which NGOs are linking their humanitarian work to social protection and the added importance of this in the context of COVID-19, following from the earlier work of CCD outlining the role of NGOs to
improve the access to and delivery of social protection in crises and the COVID-19 advocacy paper. This is written for signatories of the Grand...
27 July 2020
Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network Global Collaboration Agreement
Guidelines and Tools
The annual meeting of the Grand Bargain (GB) – a facilitation group made up of global humanitarian leaders from Sweden, the US, OCHA, UNICEF, IFRC and InterAction – held on 27th June saw the presentation of a letter of intent endorsed by the CEOs of the Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network partnership. The 15 international non-governmental organisations operate in every crisis context...
2019
Basic Needs Assessment Guidance and Toolbox Part 1: Background and Concepts
Guidelines and Tools
This document covers humanitarian aid activities implemented with the financial assistance of the European Union. The view expressed herein should not be taken, in any way, to reflect the official opinion of the European Union and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it
contains.
This document together with Part 2, constitute the final...
5 September 2018
Standard Operating Procedures for Multi-Purpose Cash (MPC) grants
Guidelines and Tools
These Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) outline the systems, roles and responsibilities, and critical actions for implementing [insert agency]’s Multi-Purpose Cash (MPC) programming on behalf of vulnerable [insert population(s)/groups] in [insert country/region/location].
May 2018
MPG Monitoring Toolkit Development and Guidelines
Guidelines and Tools
This toolkit is designed to serve as a core resource for developing and conducting monitoring of MPG programmes. The tools themselves serve as templates and should be adapted to the local context and objectives of the specific MPG programmes to be monitored. Particular care should be taken to align monitoring tools with the overall programme design, needs assessment, context analysis, and...
April 2018
Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium – Ethiopia: Building an evidence base on operational models for the delivery of CTP
Report
The Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium for the Uptake of MPGs is formed by Save the Children, the CALP Network, Danish Refugee Council, Mercy Corps, and OCHA with ECHO financing. Its primary aim is the improvement of capacity, coordination and evidence for multi-purpose cash grants through the design of collaborative tools and mechanisms to enhance the capacity of agencies to set up...
April 2018
Multipurpose Cash Grants (ERC consortium) Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Guidelines and Tools
The purpose of this document is to provide a road map of the essential components when assessing, designing, implementing and monitoring multipurpose cash grant (MPG) programmes. The Assessment and Response Option Analysis and Planning (ROAP) phases encompass the Basic Needs Approach as the key starting point for MPGs, while the Design, Implementation, and Monitoring, Evaluation,...
April 2018
Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium – Nigeria: Building an evidence base on operational models for the delivery of CTP
Report
This case study aims to review and map out how aspects of the Enhanced Response Capacity (ERC) consortium model have influenced key drivers of quality (effectiveness, efficiency and accountability) in the consortium’s Nigeria pilot. Formed at the global level in 2015, the ERC Consortium is comprised of five humanitarian response agencies: Save the Children UK (SCUK), Mercy Corps, the Danish...
March 2018
Basic Needs Assessment Guidance & Toolbox Part 2: How-to Guide & Tools
Guidelines and Tools
This How-to Guide is Part 2 of the BNA Guidance & Toolbox, with Part 1 describing the background and concepts underpinning the BNA approach.
The How-to Guide describes the sequence of practical steps necessary to ensure a successful BNA during emergencies, from initiation of the BNA up to reporting and dissemination of the final findings.
The chapter details the main activities and refers to...
2018
Guidance and Toolbox for the Basic Needs Analysis
Guidelines and Tools
The Basic Needs Analysis (BNA) is a multi-sector needs analysis approach that can be applied in both sudden onset and protracted emergencies. The methodology comprises the Guidance (this document) presenting the conceptual BNA framework and related processes, and a Toolbox, which
October 2017
includes tools, templates, training materials, and examples drawn from its first pilot, in Borno State(Nigeria).
Monitoring for MPGs: Nigeria
Guidelines and Tools
DRC partnered with graduate students from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, to design three quantitative and qualitative monitoring tools to gauge the effect of MPGs at household and community levels (namely household survey, key informant interview and community group discussion templates). This was in line with this Consortium’s Basic Needs Approach and the CALP Network’s...
2017
Monitoring for MPGs: Ethiopia
Guidelines and Tools
DRC partnered with graduate students from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, to design three quantitative and qualitative monitoring tools to gauge the effect of MPGs at household and community levels (namely household survey, key informant interview and community group discussion templates). This was in line with this Consortium’s Basic Needs Approach and the CALP Network’s...
2017
Protection Outcomes in Cash-based Interventions: A Literature Review
Report
This literature review examines existing research to determine whether the use of cash and vouchers is contributing to the promotion of protection and gender outcomes for beneficiary communities, following the WFP and UNHCR 2013 study on gender, protection and cash. This literature review focuses on these four topics: How do programmes using cash or voucher transfers articulate protection and...
8 April 2015
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
Unconditional Cash Assistance via E-Transfer: Implementation lessons learned – Winterization support via CSC bank ATM card
Report
This document looks at the lessons learned from the Danish Refugee Council’s e-transfer programme designed to provide cash assistance to Syrian refugees in Lebanon using the CALP Network’s guidelines on e-transfers in emergencies as a point of reference for assessing adherence to best practices.
2014
Cash-Based Assistance Programmes for Internally Displaced Persons in the Kabul Informal Settlements
Report
To improve aid delivery and effectiveness, Welthungerhilfe (WHH) piloted during the 2013/2014 winter a mobile-based cash assistance programme aimed at supporting IDP families living in the Kabul informal settlements (KIS) using Roshan’s M-PAISA service. To assess the strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages of these cash-based assistance modalities – and to draw on lessons...
2014
Study on Cash and Protection in Somalia
Report
The worst drought to hit Somalia in 60 years happened in 2011 and came to be popularly known as ‘The Horn of Africa Hunger Crisis’. The drought happened in a context of active conflict and a weak government that could neither protect its citizens nor the humanitarian actors. The Somalia Cash Consortium (SCC)1 – comprising four agencies – Danish Refugee Council, ADESO – formerly Horn...
2013
Gender Impact Analysis: Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Central Somalia
Report
The Cash Consortium is a group of four NGOs (ACF, Adeso, DRC and Save the Children) that came together in mid-2011 to coordinate their aid response and use unconditional cash grants to meet the basic food and non-food needs of the most vulnerable households in South Central Somalia. The primary objective of this study is to better understand what impact unconditional cash transfers have on...
21 December 2012
