Somalia Social Protection Donor Working Group – Terms of Reference (ToR)

Large-scale cash and voucher transfers have long formed the basis of the humanitarian response to crises in Somalia and successfully so. While sporadic small scale cash transfer projects in the past lacked coordination and coherence, this time a great deal of effort has been expended by donors and partners to better harmonize the transfers into a cohesive single programme approach, especially regarding the unrestricted multi-purpose cash primarily delivered through the mobile phone network (Mobile Money). The Somalia Social Protection Policy and its Implementation Framework are setting the foundations for a longer-term predictable and sustainable social protection system that will eventually be scalable in order to include both chronic and transitory caseloads.