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Kristin Smart

Global Cash Transfer Programming Coordinator

Organisation: OXFAM GB

Kristin Smart sits within Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team and leads Oxfam’s work on CVA.  Within her team also sits Oxfam’s humanitarian leads on social protection and markets supporting across all areas of Oxfam’s work.  With over 12 years of humanitarian experience across South East Asia, Pacific, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe Kristin has specialized in  cash transfers, economic recovery and livelihoods, but also has a background in operations (Finance, Administration, HR and Logistics) through her previous role as a operational coordinator with Médecins Sans Frontières.  Her current interests in CVA include using cash as a tool to strengthen local response systems (localization, social protection, markets), CVA and resilience (financial, digital and mobile inclusion), how different CVA delivery mechanism impact gender equality and CVA innovations.

 

Contributions

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

CTP Operational Models Analytical Framework

Guidelines and Tools

The State of the World’s Cash Report launched by the CALP Network in February 2018 highlights trends in the uptake of various operational models for the delivery of cash at scale in humanitarian response. Current decision making on the choice between these various operational models is highly influenced by context, and by the policies and approaches of donor agencies. Decision making on...

2018

Challenging the System: Humanitarian Cash Transfers in Iraq

Report

Cash transfers have been used in Iraq to meet the critical basic needs of a highly vulnerable population, providing them dignity and flexibility in a context of uncertainty and economic need. Although Iraq is an appropriate context for the use of cash transfers, factors including government acceptance, access, targeting and the availability of electronic transfer systems pose challenges to...

2017

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