Save the Children
15 January 2020
Contributions
User Journeys of Cash + Entrepreneurship Participants: A journey mapping case study from Colombia
Case Study
The VenEsperanza Consortium’s latest report showcases the real experiences of participants who received cash assistance and complementary entrepreneurship programming though journey mapping. Inspired by human-centered design, journey mapping aims to understand diverse users’ needs, behaviors, and experiences and to document their stories as they progress through the program — from first...
July 2024
User Journeys of Cash + Savings Group Participants: A journey mapping case study from Colombia
Case Study
The VenEsperanza Consortium’s latest report showcases the real experiences of participants who received cash assistance and complementary savings group programming though journey mapping. Inspired by human-centered design, journey mapping aims to understand diverse users’ needs, behaviors, and experiences and to document their stories as they progress through the program — from first...
July 2024
Save the Children Cash for Education Impact Evaluation in Malawi
Case Study
Save the Children implemented a Catch-up Club (CuC) project, funded by the Swedish Postcode Lottery (SPL), in 20 schools in Lilongwe, Malawi. CuCs are a short-term, data-driven intervention to build foundational skills in literacy, numeracy and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), during learning disruptions, as seen with the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted education for over 1.6 billion...
26 April 2024
Literature Review: Unconditional CVA ‘plus’ SBC for nutrition outcomes
Report
Over the years, CVA has gained attention in social protection schemes to improve child nutrition outcomes. While much of the existing evidence comes from conditional cash transfers, recent evidence demonstrates a push for more unconditional CVA. Evidence shows that nutrition-sensitive cash assistance can impact child nutrition outcome via multiple pathways, for example, by first directly...
26 April 2024
Integrating Livelihoods Support into Emergency Assistance Programming
Guidelines and Tools
This report draws on research and learning to advocate for broader consideration of expanded humanitarian response programming, especially in situations of prolonged crises. Livelihoods programs have a crucial role to play in emergency settings, especially when combined with and aligned with cash assistance. Integrating livelihoods programming into humanitarian cash assistance demands careful...
April 2024
Colombia and Lebanon Evaluation Report: Measuring the impact of cash on child protection outcomes
Report
As humanitarian crises break down traditional protection mechanisms and the loss of income restricts access to basic resources, children become increasingly vulnerable to abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) is a critical modality that is increasingly being adopted to support the prevention and response to child protection (CP) risks. While the evidence...
29 March 2024
Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) & Child Protection (CP) Global Study – Research Report in the DRC, Egypt, Lithuania and the Philippines
Report
Since 2022, Save the Children has been scaling up its use of CVA for Child Protection (CP) programming through various pilot projects.
Research was commissioned in four countries in 2022-23 to generate evidence and learning to inform the design of future programming but also to design a robust implementation and monitoring methodology to measure the outcomes of CVA on specific child...
28 March 2024
Cash and Vouchers Assistance (CVA) and Child Protection: Summary of practice and evidence from Save the Children programmes 2023 Edition
Report
In an effort to increase global knowledge and learning, Save the Children conducted a global review of twenty Country Offices and their programs in order to assess and highlight the impact that different forms of Cash and Vouchers Assistance (CVA) have on Child Protection (CP) outcomes, to identify evidence gaps and document best programmatic practices.
This follows and uses the same...
28 March 2024
Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) for Health Outcomes: a case study in Peru
Case Study
This case study is drawn from Save the Children CVA operations in Peru between 2021 and 2023, focusing on the achievement of health outcomes for vulnerable Venezuelan migrants.
Following an overview of the contexts and of the needs, it deep dives into the technical design of the integrated program, notably how a CVA for Health component was introduced. It continues with a presentation of...
27 March 2024
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) for Children Associated with Armed Groups and Armed Forces (CAAFAG): A case study from Save the Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Case Study
This case study is drawn from Save the Children CVA operations in the DRC (South Kivu) in 2022 and 2023, focusing on children associated with armed groups/forces (CAAFAG).
Following an overview of the context, it deep dives into the technical design of the CVA response and continues with a presentation of the main findings on basic need coverages and coping strategies as well as on child...
12 March 2024
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) for Children Associated with Armed Groups and Armed Forces (CAAFAG): Program Summary and Evidence-Building Infographic: A case study from Save the Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Case Study
This infographic gathers key programmatic data from Save the Children CVA operations in the DRC (South Kivu) between October 2022 and October 2023, which aimed to assess and highlight the impact that CVA has on child protection outcomes, with a specific focus on children associated with armed groups/forces (CAAFAG).
Starting with an overview of the program and key take-aways, it continues...
12 March 2024
Cash and Protection in the Ukraine Response
Report
This learning report stems from bilateral discussions with the Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network’s members in Ukraine and Poland, many of whom were on the cusp of designing or implementing C4P programmes as part of the Ukraine response and were seeking learning and experience from each other.
Together with the Regional C4PTF, it was agreed to commission this learning report to...
13 December 2023
Cash & Voucher Assistance to Reduce Child Labour: A case study from Save the Children in Egypt
Case Study
This infographic highlights the main findings and achievements of Save the Children CVA operations in Egypt between March 2023 and November 2023, which aimed to assess and highlight the impact that CVA has on child protection outcomes, with a specific focus on unaccompanied and separated refugee children exposed to child labor. The document then provides an overview of the technical design,...
December 2023
Cash & Voucher Assistance for Child Protection: A case study from Save the Children in Lithuania
Case Study
This infographic gathers key programmatic data from Save the Children CVA operations in Lithuania, within the larger context of the Ukrainian crisis, between December 2022 and April 2023, which aimed to assess and highlight the impact that CVA has on child protection outcomes, with a specific focus on child distress and violence in the home. Starting with an overview of the program, it...
December 2023
Data Sharing in Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA): A look at risks, threats and mitigation technologies
Report
This research, conducted by The Engine Room between March and October 2023, was commissioned by the Norwegian Refugee Council in collaboration with the DIGID consortium to map risks and threats related to data sharing in CVA, and to evaluate potential technological approaches that might mitigate these risks. The research forms part of a broader initiative focused on interoperability and data...
28 November 2023
Working with Financial Service Providers to Provide Emergency Cash Assistance
Guidelines and Tools
This report, prepared and published as part of VenEsperanza’s research and learning agenda, presents lessons learned and best practices related to the collaboration between humanitarian actors and financial service providers (FSPs) in delivering multi-purpose cash assistance in emergency contexts. Using VenEsperanza as a case study, this report documents and explores the important role FSPs...
23 October 2023
Cash on the Move – Lessons Learnt from the Ukraine Regional Response
Case Study
This report focuses on key programmatic and operational lessons learnt from SC’s Ukraine regional response in the use of CVA as a tool to provide assistance to populations on the move. It is organized around key enablers, challenges and recommendation during start up, implementation and monitoring of CVA in Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Romania and Georgia. The lessons learnt generated through...
19 September 2023
Ukraine Regional Response – Save the Children CVA Infographic
Report
This infographic gathers key programmatic data from Save the Children CVA operations in the Ukraine response, between February 2022 and September 2023. It highlights key programmatic design aspects (including transfer values and targeting approaches) and also illustrates the impact of CVA on multiple child outcomes. This document needs to be read in complement to SC’s Cash on the Move report...
18 September 2023
Ukraine Regional Response – CVA Technical Notes
Case Study
These technical notes provide a deep dive into some technical approaches or methodologies used by Save the Children’s teams as part of the Ukraine Regional response. Topics include targeting methodologies in contexts of evacuation and shelling, approaches to complement social protection schemes, use of new technologies and use of CVA to reach sectorial outcomes in refugee settings. Each...
17 September 2023
Joint Market Assessment Report
Report
This report assesses the feasibility of implementing Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA), specifically Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA), to support individuals impacted by the recent earthquake. The evaluation focuses on the availability of items, price increases, access to shops, and acceptance of cash and credit cards in the affected areas. The market assessment reveals that essential items...
10 July 2023
Cash and Voucher Assistance to Improve Maternal and Child Nutrition Outcomes in Emergency Contexts of Nigeria
Case Study
In Nigeria, nearly 12 per cent of children under 5 years are wasted according to the National Food Consumption and Micronutrient Survey (2021). Wasting is largely concentrated in the North with 58 per cent of all cases residing there. In the Northeast and Northwest regions of Nigeria, the prevalence of wasting is 17 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively. In 2023, it was projected that nearly...
July 2023
Layering Cash into Market Systems Programs: Catalyzing market-driven recovery in Nigeria
Case Study
This paper examines the case of the Nigeria Rural Resilience Activity (RRA), a five-year, US$49 million Activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Feed the Future portfolio within the states of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Gombe (BAY-G) in North Eastern Nigeria (NEN) and implemented by a consortium led by Mercy Corps, in partnership with Save the Children...
May 2023
Pacific cash learning event 2022: Report
Report
The Pacific Cash Learning Event was held during an important time for the region. The Pacific is highly vulnerable to disasters, which are becoming increasingly frequent and intense as a result of climate change. These disasters threaten health, food and water systems and economic security, while the health and economic shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic continue to harm Pacific communities....
December 2022
Evidence of impact research study: Cash and voucher assistance in Niger
Case Study
While in-kind assistance constitutes the bulk of humanitarian aid globally, Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is quickly gaining ground among donors and practitioners. Between 2014 and 2020, the share of CVA-based support within the overall humanitarian assistance portfolio) increased 4.5 times — from 5% to 20% of the overall aid distributed. Samuel Hall conducted a study to identify key...
November 2022
Designing Cash and Voucher Assistance to Achieve Child Protection Outcomes in Humanitarian Settings
Guidelines and Tools
This guidance seeks to empower child protection actors so that they can integrate cash and voucher assistance into their programming. By enabling increased use of CVA within child protection responses we will be able to learn lessons on how best to design CVA that minimises risks and maximises protection outcomes for children, adolescents, and their families. It is also for those implementing...
1 November 2022
Guidance Note on Cash and Voucher Assistance for Child-headed Households (CHH) and Unaccompanied Children (UAC)
Guidelines and Tools
This guidance sets out how to design and adapt cash and voucher assistance so it can be used as an intervention to address the needs of child-headed households (CHH) and unaccompanied children (UAC) in humanitarian action. The guidance goes through each step of the programme cycle – including preparedness, implementation, handover, and monitoring and evaluation. It identifies what is...
1 November 2022
Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition Projects in Humanitarian Settings. A Case Study from Yemen
Case Study
This case study is one of a series of three. They were produced by Save the Children UK within the cross-country learning initiative on ’Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition (RF4BN) in humanitarian settings’, implemented in 2021 and 2022 in Afghanistan, South Sudan and Yemen.
Focused on the RF4BN programme Yemen, this case study explores the appropriateness and effectiveness of several...
14 October 2022
Cash consortium guidance: How to launch and manage a cash assistance program and consortium. Lessons from VenEsperanza, Latin America’s largest humanitarian cash consortium
Case Study
The VenEsperanza Consortium is working to expand its research and influence on issues related to the provision of MPCA in emergencies and coordination between humanitarian actors in emergency settings. With this objective in mind, VenEsperanza has prioritized investment in greater evidence generation and analysis to harvest lessons learned for the benefit of humanitarian agencies and cash...
30 September 2022
Risks and safeguarding strategies in multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) programming. Lessons from VenEsperanza, Latin America’s largest cash consortium
Case Study
This report, prepared and published as part of VenEsperanza’s research and learning agenda, provides an account of VenEsperanza’s cash transfer program in Colombia and lessons learned to date. The report describes the five phases of VenEsperanza programming and presents prominent potential risks and safeguarding strategies during each phase, including lessons learned and best practices....
30 September 2022
Links and bridging mechanisms between cash assistance and livelihoods development/restoration programming. A review of evidence and learning from the VenEsperanza consortium
Case Study
As part of VenEsperanza’s research and learning agenda, this report provides guidance on links and bridging mechanisms between cash assistance and livelihoods development/restoration programming using the VenEsperanza Consortium as a supporting case study. This research adds to a growing body of evidence demonstrating the promise and potential for bridging cash and livelihoods programming....
30 September 2022
Executive Summary – Cross-country Learning Report on Applying the Common Approach ‘Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition’ in Humanitarian Responses
Report
From 2021 to 2022, Save the Children implemented ‘Cash + for Nutrition’ in programming in three countries at risk of famine: Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Yemen.
With funding from Save the Children Italy and technical support from Save the Children UK and the consulting firm InformEd International, these Country Offices used the Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition (RF4BN) Common...
31 August 2022
Executive Summary of the Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition (RF4BN) Endline in South Sudan
Case Study
From August 2021 to April 2022, Save the Children South Sudan implemented the RF4BN project to support families of severely and moderately malnourished children under-five years and moderately malnourished pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) in Lafon, Torit, and Magwi. The project aimed to improve the access to a diverse and nutrition diet among the target households through cash assistance,...
August 2022
Staying together: vulnerable households in Cambodia recover from the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 and protect their children
Video
A short video highlighting how cash and voucher assistance (CVA) transitioned to livelihood early recovery assistance to achieve child protection outcomes for vulnerable households affected by the secondary impacts of COVID-19 in Cambodia and already receiving case management by child protection agencies.
28 July 2022
Cash Transfer
Video
A short video highlighting how cash and voucher assistance (CVA) achieved child protection outcomes for vulnerable households affected by the secondary impacts of COVID-19 and already receiving case management by child protection agencies, strengthening their capacities to cover their essential needs, improved relationships between household members, reduced the adoption of negative coping...
28 July 2022
Out of Residential Care Institutions : building the capacities of vulnerable households to ensure family-based care during COVID-19
Video
A short video highlighting how cash and voucher assistance (CVA) transitioned to livelihood early recovery support to enable vulnerable households affected by the secondary impacts of COVID-19 to strengthen their capacity to care for their children and for youth living in Residential Care Institutions to be reintegrated into their family and community.
28 July 2022
The Receipt
Report
Save the Children Australia: Pacific Cash Preparedness and Response Program Newsletter
June 2022
Executive Summary of the Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition (RF4BN) Endline in Yemen
Case Study
From September 2021 to April 2022, Save the Children Yemen implemented the RF4BN project to support pregnant and lactating women (PLWs), children under 2 (CU2), and other vulnerable households. The project aimed to improve their access to food, water, hygiene, health, and nutrition services through the provision of cash assistance. In addition, the programme aimed to improve Maternal, Infant,...
May 2022
Gender Responsive social protection post- Covid 19
Policy paper
See the publication here Social protection has been a key policy response to address pandemic-related social and economic crises; however, attention to gender has been insufficient. Less than one in five global social protection measures during COVID-19 has addressed gender, such as supporting women in informal employment, mitigating risks of violence, and confronting the unequal distribution...
18 March 2022
CVA & Child Protection: Summary of Practice and Evidence from Save the Children Programmes
Report
How can cash and voucher assistance (CVA) be used to improve child protection (CP) outcomes, such as reducing child labour, child
marriage, school dropout and family separation? How can CVA be used to improve the psychosocial wellbeing of children and their caregivers?
These are some of the questions that this report seeks to answer, by summarising current practice and emerging evidence from...
18 February 2022
Lessons Learnt from Latin America and Practical Guidance for Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) Integration
Report
Existing tools and guidance on Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) generally focus on the technical approach to achieving sectoral outcomes. However, this presumes levels of integration between and among sectors that remains a challenge due to a myriad of reasons.
Based on the lessons learnt from Colombia, Peru, Nicaragua, and Guatemala’s experience with MPCA and sectoral integration, the...
17 February 2022
The Receipt
Report
Save the Children Australia: Pacific Cash Preparedness and Response Program Newsletter
20 January 2022
An Unprecedented Crisis: Meeting Humanitarian Needs through Integrated Cash, Nutrition and WASH Interventions. A Case Study from Afghanistan
Case Study
This case study is one of a series of three. They were produced by Save the Children UK within the cross country learning initiative on ‘Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition (RF4BN) in humanitarian settings’, implemented in 2021 and 2022 in Afghanistan, South Sudan and Yemen.
The case study explores important programmatic aspects as experienced by Save the Children staff involved in...
2022
Enablers and Challenges when Integrating Cash, Nutrition and WASH Interventions in Humanitarian Contexts: A case study from South Sudan
Case Study
This case study is one of a series of three. They were produced by Save the Children UK within the cross-country learning initiative on ’Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition (RF4BN) in humanitarian settings’, implemented in 2021 and 2022 in Afghanistan, South Sudan and Yemen.
Focused on South Sudan, this case study explores the enabling conditions and challenges in integrating Cash,...
2022
Applying the Common Approach ‘Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition’ in Humanitarian Responses. Cross-Country Learning Report
Report
From 2021 to 2022, Save the Children implemented ‘Cash + for Nutrition’ in programming in three countries at risk of famine: Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Yemen.
With funding from Save the Children Italy and technical support from Save the Children UK and the consulting firm InformEd International, these Country Offices used the Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition (RF4BN) Common...
2022
The Receipt
Report
Save the Children Australia: Pacific Cash Preparedness and Response Program
30 June 2021
CVA for Child Protection Outcomes: Case study from Cambodia
Video
Save the Children Cambodia and seven partner organizations are working to improve households’ ability to care for their children and achieve positive child protection outcomes. With support from USAID Cambodia and European Union in Cambodia, FCF|REACT is providing monthly cash transfers and supporting caregivers to prioritize expenditures in their children’s best interests. This video...
13 June 2021
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Feasibility and Risk Analysis Sudan
Case Study
Summary findings UN agencies and NGOs are all in the process of starting up or scaling up cash transfers with many other agencies active in the Cash Working Group while WFP is considered as the biggest Cash actor. There is a strong direction from the government at the national level to use cash based intervention, preparation is ongoing to launch a massive national universal basic income...
June 2021
Money Matters: A toolkit for caseworkers to support adult and adolescent clients with basic money management
Guidelines and Tools
This tool is for use when child protection case management clients receive cash and voucher assistance as part of their child protection case management response. This tool sets out guidance for caseworkers that have previously had case management training. It will help caseworkers to support their clients with basic money management. This material is also a part of the Toolkit for Monitoring...
9 April 2021
CASH ON THE MOVE – Adapting Multi-Purpose Cash ‘Plus’ Assistance to support people on the move in Peru
Report
In 2019 and 2020, with the support of USAID´s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (formerly FFP and OFDA), Save the Children implemented
a multi-purpose cash ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan migrants into Peru.
Households that were only transiting through the cities where they were identified were provided with a one-off cash transfer assistance aiming
at covering...
8 January 2021
Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 in Mauritania Using the Household Economy Analysis Framework
Report
Analysis of Impacts of COVID-19 on household income and food security.
1 October 2020
Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 in Nigeria Using The Household Economy Analysis Framework
Report
Analysis of impact of COVID-19 on household food and income sources.
1 October 2020
Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 in Chad Using the Household Economy Analysis Framework
Report
Analysis of COVID-19 impacts on household income and food security.
1 August 2020
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
Migrating with dignity: MPCA to Venezuelan families in Peru
Video
Watch the video here In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Peru. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative coping strategies, notably affecting the protection and nutritional status of children. In...
15 June 2020
MPCA ‘Plus’ assistance to people on the move: the case of Venezuelans in Peru
Video
Watch the video here This video documents the MPCA ‘Plus’ program implemented by Save the Children Peru in response to the Venezuelan crisis, and more specifically highlights the provision of assistance to families on the move, or ‘transiting’ through Peru. Beneficiaries were identified throughout the ‘migration’ route crossing through Peru, from the city of Piura down to Arequipa....
15 June 2020
Webinar | Multi-purpose Cash Transfer and Child Protection: a case study (English and Spanish editions)
Webinar recording
Watch the webinar recording here. More information here. In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Colombia. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative coping strategies, notably affecting the protection...
4 May 2020
3 things to know about … Integrated Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Child Protection (CP) during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Guidelines and Tools
This interactive tip sheet highlights why, what and how to integrate CVA and CP during the Covid-19. It provides key programmatic elements and links to relevant resources to inform the design and implementation of integrated programming. The tip sheet was developed to address most of the questions raised during the webminar hosted by the Child Protection alliance on ” Multi-Purpose Cash...
4 May 2020
A six-step guide to supporting shock-responsive social protection in response to COVID-19
Guidelines and Tools
This note[1] sets out six steps to guide our decisions on whether and how we may be able to provide an effective and timely response to the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 by building on existing government social protection programmes (i.e. shock responsive social protection). It is aimed primarily at staff in country offices that are already engaged with governments on social...
22 April 2020
The Case for Cash in Responding to Humanitarian Crises in Malawi
Policy paper
A policy paper by the Malawi INGO Cash Consortium which makes the case for cash assistance as a response modality to humanitarian crises. It gives a brief overview of global evidence for cash and previous cash experience in Malawi, and makes several key recommendations. One of these key recommendations is that cash over in-kind food aid should be prioritised in Malawi, except in cases of...
12 March 2020
Multi-Purpose Cash Transfer ‘Plus’: Maximizing impact on children through integrated cash-based programming
Report
In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Colombia. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative coping strategies, notably affecting the protection and nutritional status of children. In addition to the...
19 October 2019
Consultation on Cash and Voucher Assistance to the Main Spanish NGOs Funded by Aecid – Executive Summary
Report
This executive report summarizes the results obtained from a study of the cash and voucher assistance (CVA) practices of eight Spanish NGOs in the field of humanitarian assistance. You can read the full report in Spanish here.
2019
Child Safeguarding for Cash and Voucher Assistance Guidance
Guidelines and Tools
As cash and voucher assistance (CVA) becomes ever more prevalent, it is more important than ever for humanitarian and development actors to act to prevent and mitigate associated child safeguarding risks.
Children are particularly vulnerable, and even more so in emergencies. The impact of CVA on children’s well-being must, therefore, be considered at all stages of the project cycle and in...
2019
Response Options Analysis Planning Guide
Guidelines and Tools
The inter-sector Response Options Analysis and Planning (ROAP) is a structured decision-making process, which draws from the information generated through a multitude of needs and operational environment assessments. The ROAP gives way to the selection of the most appropriate, operationally feasible and cost-efficient response options to achieve sector and inter-sector objectives for specific...
2019
Building Evidence to inform the Effective Use of CASH and Voucher Assistance in Emergency Sanitation and Hygiene Programming
Report
An analysis of 5 case studies of utilization of CASH/Voucher Assistance are presented and analysed in the attempt of building evidence on their utilization in emergency WASH Sanitation and HP programming. Findings and recommendations are provided on Coordination, Situation and Response Analysis, Program Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation.
2019
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
Introductory Research on the Feasibility of Cash and Voucher Assistance in Rural Fiji
Report
This report presents the findings of a study into the general feasibility of using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in responding to disasters in Fiji. The term “Cash and Voucher Assistance” or CVA, is used in the report in line with the the CALP Network definition, so it refers to programs where cash transfers or vouchers are provided directly to people not to the government.
This study...
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
Nigeria Cash Working Group (CWG) Inter-Sector Working Group (ISWG) Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) Presentation, March 2018
Presentation
Presentation to the Inter-Sector Working Group (ISWG) advocating for the use of Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) in the response in Borno state, north-east Nigeria
March 2018
Multi-Sector Market Assessment Fafan Zone, Ethiopia
Report
This report covers the findings of the Multi-Sector Market Assessment (MSMA) conducted in Fafan Zone, Ethiopia in February and March 2018. The assignment formed part of the ERC-MPG Consortium on Approaches to Transformative Humanitarian Cash Transfer programming and is intended to support joint, multi-sectoral key decisions on cash transfer programming. The assessment was undertaken in Fafan...
February 2018
Child Outcomes of Cash Transfer Programming: Appendix 2
Report
This is an appendix to the document “Research brief: Child outcomes of cash transfer programming. A synthesis of the evidence around survival, education and protection in humanitarian and non-humanitarian contexts”. This appendix contains a summary of the available evidence per each outcome of interest. Findings are organised along the three main themes: survival, education, protection.
2018
Child Outcomes of Cash Transfer Programming: Appendix 1
Report
This is an appendix to the document “Research brief: Child outcomes of cash transfer programming. A synthesis of the evidence around survival, education and protection in humanitarian and non-humanitarian contexts”. This appendix contains the list of studies that were reviewed, with information on findings of interest and their significance. Research Brief also available
2018
Mainstreaming Gender-Based Violence Considerations in Cash-Based Interventions: A Case Study from Zinder, Niger
Report
This case study provides an overview of assessment and monitoring activities undertaken by the Women’s Refugee Commission and Save the Children to mainstream gender-based violence (GBV) considerations in Save the Children’s cash-based intervention (CBIs) in Zinder. Key findings, learning and recommendations are captured with implications for Save the Children’s CBIs across Niger.
2018
Toolkit for Optimizing Cash-based Interventions for Protection from Gender-based Violence
Guidelines and Tools
Efforts to prevent and respond to GBV should be a priority for all actors in all humanitarian response operations from the very start. By mainstreaming GBV considerations in CBIs throughout the program cycle and by utilizing cash within GBV case management services, cash can be optimized as a tool to enhance the protection of crisis- and conflict-affected populations and to mitigate risks of...
2018
The Delivery Guide: Scoping the Humanitarian Payments Landscape
Guidelines and Tools
Mercy Corps has developed a Delivery Guide (FSP Assessment Tool) that helps humanitarian workers identify appropriate delivery mechanisms for cash transfer programming, particularly multipurpose cash grants (MPGs). In past responses, organisations have faced challenges in understanding and assessing how regulations will affect cash programming. The Delivery Guide takes users through a two-step...
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
Response options analysis and planning for Fafan zone (Somali region, Ethiopia)
Guidelines and Tools
Between October 2017 and March 2018, the Consortium began the pilot in Ethiopia with the aim of providing technical and strategic support to country-based humanitarian organisations, enabling them to engage in collaborative assessments and decision making. Whilst the Consortium has not been conceived to provide direct assistance to crisis-affected populations, it is intended to have an...
2018
Appendix 1: Table Of Studies
Report
Table of studies included in the review
2018
Mozambique Rapid Market Assessment
Report
Mozambique is a country prone to natural disasters, most markedly floods, cyclones, pest and disease outbreaks and frequent droughts. These regularly exacerbate the underlying poverty and food security situation and cause major damage and set back economic growth in disaster-affected areas. Meteorological records show that flooding and cyclones usually occur during the rainy season between the...
2018
Child Outcomes of Cash Transfer Programming: Research Brief
Report
Humanitarian emergencies are increasing in both frequency and duration. It is evident that children bear the brunt of these situations and that these experiences have long-lasting effects on their development and future. The figures for the number of children affected by humanitarian emergencies are worrying: in 2014, children comprised half or more of those affected by natural disasters...
2018
Basic Needs Assessment Report BNA Pilot in Fafan zone, Ethiopia
Report
The BNA in Ethiopia identified Tuliguled as the woreda where deprivation across all basic needs has the most severe humanitarian consequences for the population in the assessed sites . Babile and Kebribeyah were the next most affected. This situation was due mostly to insufficient purchasing power and assistance. The highest proportion (49 percent) of people facing severe unmet needs was found...
December 2017
More Phones, More Transfers? A case study from Save the Children’s Emergency Food Security Program using Mobile Money in Bari, Nugaal, & Hiran Regions of Somalia
Report
In 2016-2017, with funding from USAID/FFP, Save the Children implemented a project targeting over 10,000HH the Bari, Nugaal, and Hiran regions of Somalia with monthly cash transfers using Mobile Money a partnership with Golis and Hormuud. The project sought to improve the food security situation in the targeted households. Save the Children wanted to understand to what extent the project...
November 2017
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).
UNHCR Multi-Sector Market Assessment (MSMA): Charcoal, water, low-income rental housing and core-relief items in Maiduguri, Jere and Konduga, Borno State, Nigeria
Report
To assess the capacity of markets to respond to cash based initiatives (CBI), including multi-purpose cash grants (MPG), the UNHCR Multi-Sector Market Assessment (MSMA) was piloted in Maiduguri Municipal Council (MMC), Jere and Konduga Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Borno State, Nigeria in July 2017. The MSMA was led by UNHCR and followed the Save the Children’s led Basic Needs Assessment...
October 2017
Final Evaluation of the DiRECT Response Emergency Cash Transfer Programme in Zambia
Report
In the past two years (2015 and 2016), Zambia experienced relatively harsh climatic conditions characterised by disruptive rains and the negative impact of El Nino weather patterns. Districts in the southern and western regions of the country were most affected. Many farmers in the affected regions were critically food-insecure and had minimal or no personal household stocks. The affected...
28 August 2017
Digital Cash Transfers in Liberia. A case study from Save the Children’s Emergency Food Security Program (2015- 2016)
Report
Through its USAID-funded Emergency Food Security Program, Save the Children was the first organization to implement cash transfers through mobile money at scale in Liberia, where mobile money services are nascent. From liquidity management to incentivizing agents, the challenges, lessons, and opportunities are documented in this study conducted by Strategic Impact Advisors, LLC.
2017
Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers on the Outcome of Treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM): A Cluster-Randomised Trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Report
Cash transfer programs (CTPs) aim to strengthen financial security for vulnerable households. This potentially enables improvements in diet, hygiene, health service access and investment in food production or income generation.The effect of CTPs on the outcome of children already severely malnourished is not well delineated. The objective of this study was to test whether CTPs will improve...
2017
Response Option Analysis for Jere, Konduga and MMC (Borno), Inter-sector Workshop
Guidelines and Tools
In March 2017, the Consortium began the pilot in Nigeria with the aim of providing technical and strategic support to country-based humanitarian organisations, enabling them to engage in collaborative assessments and decision making. Whilst the Consortium has not been conceived to provide direct assistance to crisis-affected populations, it is intended to have an indirect, positive impact on...
2017
Cash and Education in Somalia, Somalia Education Cluster (October 2017) – CTP in the education response
Report
Two-page briefing on cash and education in Somalia
2017
Rapid Household Economy Analysis,Bidibidi Refugee Settlement,Yumbe District, Uganda
Report
Yumbe District (Bidibidi settlement) hosts about 272,2061 refugees from South Sudan. An influx of refugees to Bidibidi settlement, Yumbe District, took place starting from August 2016 due to the increased conflict, scarcity of food, and subsequent financial instability caused by hyperinflation in South Sudan. Dan Church Aid (DCA) and Save the Children conducted a rapid Household Economy...
2017
Increasing the Uptake of Multi-Purpose Cash Grants in Emergency Responses for a More Efficient and Effective Humanitarian Action
Report
Reduced funding in the humanitarian sector has propelled a new drive for efficient responses, with cash transfer programming (CTP) gaining traction in high-level discussions. Humanitarian actors have made significant use of multipurpose cash grants (MPGs) as the most efficient and effective way of meeting basic needs across traditional sector divides. However, newly proposed coordination...
2016
Can E-Transfers Promote Financial Inclusion in Emergencies: A Case Study from Zimbabwe
Case Study
The Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) launched research to build an evidence base around connecting emergency electronic transfer (e-transfer) recipients with additional financial services. They wanted to learn if, when, and how e-transfers can promote sustained uptake and use of e-transfer services, including mobile money. This case study explores a humanitarian...
2016
Rapid Assessment for Markets: Bidibidi Refugee Settlement
Report
The Rapid Assessment of Markets (RAM) conducted within the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement and in the surrounding Ugandan towns and trading centres sheds some light upon the rapidly developing network of marketplaces within one of the world’s fastest growing refugee settlements. The RAM highligthed key challenges and opportunities for cash-based interventions and supported decision-making...
2016
Mobile Financial Services in Bangladesh
Report
This report is the consolidation of findings derived from desk research and face-to-face interviews with key mobile financial services providers, telecom operators, technology platform providers, regulators, and USAID health and agriculture project staff and beneficiaries.
The objective of this report is two-fold: The first is to better understand the progress the mobile financial services...
April 2015
Impact of Multipurpose Cash Assistance on Outcomes for Children in Lebanon
Report
This report examines the impact of multipurpose cash assistance (MCA) on children, specifically looking at child outcomes and child protection outcomes, in Lebanon. The impact of the Lebanon Cash Consortium MCA program was measured using a variety of indicators for shelter quality and consistency, child education, economic activity and exploitation of children, general medical and dietary...
2015
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
Operational Guidance and Toolkit for Multipurpose Cash Grants
Guidelines and Tools
This operational guidance and toolkit brings together worldwide expertise on cash-based interventions (CBIs). It provides comprehensive and practical guidance for humanitarian actors to assess the feasibility, conceptualise the design and structure the implementation of MPGs. The guidance focuses on MPGs whose primary objective is to meet basic needs as defined by affected people...
2015
Cash, Care, Prevention and Adherence for Adolescents: Latest evidence from southern Africa
Presentation
This presentation looks at cash, care, prevention and adherence for adolescents using the National Longitudinal study of Adolescents in Southern Africa.
2015
Livelihoods Toolbox
Guidelines and Tools
2015
Philippines Haiyan Response – A multi-sectoral review of the use of market analysis and the design and implementation of CTPs
Report
Following Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines on November 8 2014, at least 45 aid agencies chose to implement Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) to assist the more than 16 million people affected. Cash transfers were a logical approach in a country with developed market systems, strong financial services, and with experience of CTP in previous emergencies. The Government of the Philippines...
2015
Guide for Protection in Cash based Interventions
Guidelines and Tools
This guide identifies minimum necessary information and key resources needed to help humanitarian practitioners ensure that protection risks and benefits are considered and monitored throughout the cash-based interventions (CBI) program cycle, using a community-based approach and participatory methods as much as possible. It can help to inform CBI in any program context: protection...
2015
Protection Risks and Benefits Analysis Tool
Report
This tool provides global evidence on the protection risks and benefits of cash-based interventions, divided into key protection areas. It outlines the key questions that practitioners should explore to reach a context-specific, participatory identification of protection risks and benefits of a given intervention. It can be used for design or monitoring. The tool includes a blank template for...
2015
Tips for Protection in Cash based interventions
Guidelines and Tools
This document presents a set of general tips to identify, monitor and mitigate protection risks and maximize protection benefits of cash-based interventions.
2015
Key Recommendations for Protection in Cash-based Interventions
Guidelines and Tools
This document outlines the key recommendations to ensure that protection is mainstreamed throughout the project cycle for cash-based interventions.
2015
Part 1.2 The Minimum Expenditure Basket
Report
The Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) is defined as what a household requires in order to meet basic needs – on a regular or seasonal basis – and its average cost. Determining the MEB serves three functions: a) it is a holistic reflection of need as perceived by crisis affected populations, including those needs that fall outside of traditional sectors, e.g. communication, transport, etc),...
2015
Mobile Cash Transfers for Urban Refugees in Niamey, Niger
Report
This study compared the effectiveness of cash transfers delivered through mobile phone and microfinance institutions to urban refugees in Niamey. The study found that the mobile phone delivery mechanism could be more cost-efficient than the MFI mechanism, after initial set up costs associated to technology are amortised. The use of proximity cash-out points can reduce transport and opportunity...
February 2014
Planning for government adoption of a social protection programme in an insecure environment: the Child Grant Development Programme in northern Nigeria
Report
Cash transfer programming (CTP) is increasingly used in West Africa in response to food and nutritional crisis. Beyond emergency situations, cash transfer mechanisms are key mechanisms for national social protection strategies and policies. Despite the rapid development of social protection programmes, and the partnerships established with national institutions for the implementation of...
2014
Community Baseline: A Survey On Resilience In South Central Somalia
Report
A comprehensive understanding of the socio-economic and environmental context of intervention is essential to the success of any resilience-building program. Based on this premise, the BRCiS has taken a series of steps to strengthen its knowledge and understanding of key variables and dynamics in its areas of operations in Somalia. The community baseline here presented is an integral part of...
2014
Community Baseline: A Survey On Resilience In South Central Somalia Summary
Report
A comprehensive understanding of the socio-economic and environmental context of intervention is essential to the success of any resilience-building program. Based on this premise, the BRCiS has taken a series of steps to strengthen its knowledge and understanding of key variables and dynamics in its areas of operations in Somalia. The community baseline here presented is an integral part of...
2014
Research gaps in cash transfer programming
Report
Gathering evidence through action research is one of the ways that the CALP Network aims to improve cash transfer programming (CTP) implementation and raise awareness about CTP and its use as an appropriate and effective mechanism for emergency response. Before defining potential research topics for 2014, the CALP Network commissioned a study in order to: better understand what action and...
2014
Cash Emergency Preparedness (CEP) Assessment: Myanmar
Policy paper
Cash transfer programming (CTP) in emergencies is not new in Myanmar, with the first examples going back at least to Cyclone Nargis in 2009. CTP has also been used in humanitarian settings such as Kachin State. However, CTP is not yet being widely used for the current conflict context in Rakhine State due to the complexities of the situation. CTP has also been widely used in development...
October 2013
Cash Transfer Programming Technical Information Paper: Cash for work
Policy paper
This short and practical technical information paper published by Save the Children provides top-line guidelines for setting up cash for work (CFW) interventions. It includes: – Why opt for CFW intervention? – Planning for CFW – Implementing CFW – What are donors saying?
2013
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
Gatekeepers in Mogadishu: Research Consultancy
Report
Since 2011 the Somalia Cash Consortium has been implementing large-scale unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) under the Food Assistance to Vulnerable Households in South Central Somalia. Members of the Consortium have been confronted with the challenge of having to negotiate security and access to IDP sites through informal IDP camp authorities. An important actor among the informal camp...
2013
Gender Impact Analysis: Unconditional cash transfers in South Central Somalia
Case Study
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
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
Humanitarian Coalition East Africa Drought Appeal: Final Evaluation – Somalia
Case Study
In 2011, Somalia suffered from one of the worst droughts in 60 years which left more than 13 million people in need of food, water and emergency healthcare. Canadian donors contributed $14 million to the Humanitarian Coalition’s joint appeal for East Africa’s drought of 2011. These funds helped to set up activities such as the delivery of emergency food, basic healthcare, and water...
October 2012
Humanitarian Coalition East Africa Drought Appeal: Final evaluation report – Cash programs
Report
In 2011, suffered from one of the worst droughts in 60 years which left more than 13 million people in need of food, water and emergency healthcare. Canadian donors contributed $14 million to the Humanitarian Coalition’s joint appeal for East Africa’s drought of 2011. These funds helped to set up activities such as the delivery of emergency food, basic healthcare, and water sanitation...
October 2012
Humanitarian Coalition East Africa Drought Appeal: Final evaluation report
Report
In 2011, suffered from one of the worst droughts in 60 years which left more than 13 million people in need of food, water and emergency healthcare. Canadian donors contributed $14 million to the Humanitarian Coalition’s joint appeal for East Africa’s drought of 2011. These funds helped to set up activities such as the delivery of emergency food, basic healthcare, and water sanitation...
October 2012
Cash Consortium for South/Central Somalia: Combined Risk Analysis
Report
Since mid-2011, the Cash Consortium has been providing access to food and other non-food items through unconditional cash grants for the most vulnerable populations in South Central Somalia. The context is highly challenging, due to continuing conflict, lack of governance, high criminality and low levels of humanitarian access to affected populations. In response to difficulties encountered in...
September 2012
Social Safety Net Project Overview
Presentation
This presentation provides an overview of a three-year social safety net project being implemented by a consortium of Adeso and Save the Children (UK), with the overall aim to reduce community vulnerability to chronic food insecurity in two regions of Somalia/Somaliland identified as being highly vulnerable to food insecurity.
22 May 2012
Cash Emergency Preparedness (CEP) Pilots
Guidelines and Tools
CEP guidelines and key findings from pilot assessments.
April 2012
Mobile Technology in Emergencies
Policy paper
Mobile phones are increasingly accessible to those affected by crisis and can play a strategic role in the delivery of rapid, cost-effective, scalable humanitarian assistance. However, the full potential of mobile phones to work as transformative tools in emergency response has not yet been realised. This research identifies three key themes that should be addressed in order to change this...
2012
What Cash Transfer Programming can do to Protect Children from Violence, Abuse and Exploitation – Review and recommendations
Report
This discussion paper examines the links between cash transfers and the positive and negative outcomes for children, in particular the role cash transfers have played in protecting children from harm, exploitation, abuse and violence. The objective of this paper is to identify ways in which cash transfer activities could support the protection of children affected by emergencies.
2012
Child Safeguarding in Cash Transfer Programming Tool
Guidelines and Tools
It is important to recognise that Cash Transfers present increased and specific risks for beneficiaries versus other forms of emergency assistance. Given children’s greater vulnerability, the impact of CTP on their wellbeing must be considered at all stages of the project cycle. This tool provides personnel using Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) with advice on the child protection issues to...
2012
What Cash Transfer Programming can do to Protect Children – Discussion Paper
Report
This discussion paper examines the links between cash transfers and the positive and negative outcomes for children, in particular the role cash transfers have played in protecting children from harm, exploitation, abuse and violence. The objective of this paper is to identify ways in which cash transfer activities could support the protection of children affected by emergencies. This paper...
2012
Cash and Child Protection: How cash transfer programming can protect children from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence
Guidelines and Tools
This discussion paper examines the links between cash transfers and the positive and negative outcomes for children – in particular, the role cash transfers have played in protecting children from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. It aims to identify ways in which cash transfer activities could be designed to support the protection of children affected by emergencies.
2012
Child Safeguarding in Cash Transfer Programming
Guidelines and Tools
While cash transfers have become a key intervention in emergencies, they also pose increased and additional risks for beneficiaries, compared with other forms of assistance. Children are particularly vulnerable, and even more so in emergencies. The impact of cash transfer programming on children’s well-being must, therefore, be considered at all stages of the project cycle. Child protection...
2012
The CALP Network 4th Global Learning Event: Global innovations and lessons learned from response in South and South-East Asia (Final report)
Report
The 4th CALP Network Global Learning Event was held in Bangkok, Thailand on the 16th and 17th February 2011, hosted by the CALP Network in partnership with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). This inter-agency event was designed to present the latest thinking and evidence-based research in cash transfer and voucher programming (CTP) as well as to...
February 2011
Cash Preparedness in Vietnam
Presentation
A presentation from the the CALP Network Global Learning Event, addressing Save the Children’s Preparedness in Vietnam Bangkok, February 16-17, 2011. Topics include: Emergency preparedness Cash intervention design Lessons learned
2011
Cash Programming in Haiti – Lessons Learned in Disbursing Cash
Report
The following report is the result of an initial 2 week mission to Haiti to investigate cash programming (including cash for work) amongst 17 organizations. It is not intended as an exhaustive review of 17 organizations’ practices, but attempts to look at what were some of the critical stages in cash programming in Haiti and identify some lessons learned. The results are useful in thinking...
2011
Cash Learning Bulletin August 2011
Report
This newsletter includes articles and updates on: Smart cards used for the first time in Zimbabwe cash transfers Philippines cash learning group starts up Technical forum on cash transfers in Kenya & Somalia CALP Ivory Coast cash guidelines and details of forthcoming research for the period.
2011
An Evaluation of Save the Children’s Cash Transfer Project in Aweil East County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan
Report
Since April 2009, Save the Children have been implementing an ECHO-funded cash transfer project in Baac Payam, Aweil East County. The specific objective of this project has been to improve dietary diversity and nutritional outcomes among the targeted households that inhabit a part of Sudan which has some of the worst food security and health figures for the whole country, where a combination...
2011
Cash-Based Safety Nets for Livelihood Support in Northeastern Somalia: A Feasibility Study for Save the Children UK and Horn Relief
Case Study
This study looks at the need for and feasibility of cash-based safety net programming within the operational areas of Save the Children UK and Horn Relief in Northeastern Somalia. The success of recent emergency cash transfer programs in Somalia permit the question of whether cash-based programs are applicable for more profound social protection. This study tries to answer some basic questions...
2011
Support to Economic Recovery of Urban Households in Karoi town, Zimbabwe (the CALP Network Case Study)
Report
In the urban area of Karoi, Zimbabwe, Save the Children combined cash for work with livelihoods support to meet the immediate food needs and support the economic recovery of poor families. The project used smart cards to transfer cash to beneficiaries, which proved to be an appropriate payment mechanism with longer-term advantages, despite technological constraints in the project area. This...
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
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
Case Study of Cash Transfer to Traders during the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005
Case Study
This case study examines Oxfam’s innovative programme to provide cash/vouchers to local traders to re-establish their businesses and re-initiate an economic stimulus in order to help vulnerable people purchase, or put on credit, food and non-food items throughout the upcoming winter. The paper looks at the context, situational analysis, response analysis, rationale for choosing response and...
2011
Inter-Agency Impact Assessment of the Cash Transfer Programs in West Sumatra
Case Study
Following the 2009 earthquake in West Sumatra, cash transfer programming (CTP) has proven successful in delivering a fast and effective recovery response—providing households the opportunity to recover shelter and basic needs for their livelihoods. Success of these CTPs has been supported well by the IASC Clusters Coordination system, which has enabled agencies to coordinate for greater...
May 2010
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
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. Over 1,200 people died and as many as 500,000 were displaced at the peak of the crisis....
August 2009
How cash transfers can improve the nutrition of the poorest children: Evaluation of a pilot safety net project in southern Niger
Case Study
This report presents key findings from an evaluation of Save the Children’s pilot project to give cash transfers to 1,500 of the poorest households in Tessaoua district, Maradi region, Niger. Its findings will be of interest to NGOs, governments and donors involved in planning and implementing food security and safety net programmes. Every year, at least 200,000 children under five...
2009
Choice, dignity and empowerment? Cash and food transfers in Swaziland: An evaluation of Save the Children’s emergency drought response
Case Study
This evaluation report looks at the Save the Children’s cash transfer project, which was a response to the 2007/8 food crisis in Swaziland, with the aim of not only providing humanitarian assistance but also as a way to break the dependency of rural families on food aid. Selected beneficiaries were given a half ration of food and the equivalent in cash for six months. A control group...
June 2008
Practitioners’ Guide to the Household Economy Approach
Guidelines and Tools
This guide is aimed at those carrying out household economy approach (HEA) assessments, and is intended to serve as both a refresher guide for experienced practitioners and a set of reference reading materials to accompany formal trainings for new practitioners. The Practitioners’ Guide is presented as a series of chapters; the expectation is not that this guide will be read cover to...
2008
Impact of Microfinance Programs on Children: An annotated survey of indicators
Report
The purpose of this study is to ascertain what indicators have been used by multisectoral, child-focused non-governmental organizations (NGOs), microfinance practitioners and social performance researchers to assess processes that address children’s concerns in operations and the impact of microfinance on children. Furthermore, the study endeavors to reveal the emergent issues and biases...
2007
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 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 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
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
Market-Based Food Assistance Pilot Project Pidie and Lhokseumawe Districts, Banda Aceh: Report of Final Evaluation
Report
This report represents the findings of a final evaluation undertaken for Save the Children Indonesia/Banda Aceh of its Market-based Food Assistance (MBFA) Pilot Project carried out in Pidie and Lhokseumawe districts in early 2006. For 3 months, from February-April 2006, SC/BA implemented a pilot project, in selected barracks and villages in Pidie and Lhoksuemawe program areas, to test a model...
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