State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Chapter 5: Coordination

There has been very limited progress on cash coordination since 2017. Cash continues to challenge the established coordination and funding architecture, and efforts to resolve outstanding questions around cash coordination have failed. Despite the lack of global agreement, Cash Working Groups are pushing forward and contributing to improved programming, and generating new approaches. This chapter asks: ‘How can donors and decision makers break the global impasse on cash coordination and build on the progress made by Cash Working Groups to improve programming?’