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The Impact of Cash Transfers on Local Economies
Policy paper
In this special edition of Policy in Focus, leading authors and practitioners present their research on how cash transfers can impact the local economy when implemented in a developing country. The aim is to gather and review research results and evidence, obtained from various methodologies ranging from...
Using Innovation And New Technologies to Improve Cash Transfer Programming (CTP)
Report
Experience and studies show that providing cash transfers to disaster-affected families empowers them to meet their diverse needs, provides a stimulus to the recovery of the local economy and is a cost effective way to deliver humanitarian assistance. The IFRC is committed to providing multi-sectoral...
A Review of Evidence of Humanitarian Cash Transfer Programming in Urban Areas
Report
Urban poor populations frequently experience disasters of varying typology and intensity. When set against a backdrop of poverty and marginalisation, their needs can be complex. As recent urban crises have pushed humanitarian agencies to respond in urban areas, this literature review examines the...
Guidelines on Cash Transfers and Livelihoods – Latin America
Report
This document, like the learning workshop that took place in Guatemala City on 16th and 17th November 2015, focuses primarily on the context in Central America. Due to the profile of the participants and the complex problems of the region (the Dry Corridor, high exposure to hurricanes, high levels of...
Tigo Cash Senegal
Guides et outils
Mobile Cash S.A (“MCSA”) was created in 2012 as a subsidiary of the Millicom group, it obtained its EME license from bceao following the decision of February 13, 2014 under the number “EME. SN 005/2013. Mobile Cash S.A. is therefore authorized to issue and distribute electronic money to a clientele...
The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers
Report
This paper examines the effect of cash versus in-kind transfers on local prices. Both types of transfers increase the demand for normal goods; in-kind transfers also increase supply in recipient communities, which should cause prices to fall relative to cash transfers. We test and confirm this prediction...
Market Analysis for Preparedness and Development: Piloting Innovation in Guatemala
Report
This case study charts the process, successes and learning from Oxfam’s pilot joint market analysis in Guatemala 2013. One of the key lessons is that, despite the initial reluctance to market based programming approaches, a critical impact of the assessment has been increased interest from other...
Case Study: Preparing to Implement Relief Cash Transfer Programming at Scale
Case Study
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) worked with four pilot countries namely the Philippine Red Cross, the Vietnam Red Cross Society, the Senegalese Red Cross Society and the Chilean Red Cross, between May 2012 and December 2013 to support them with training and...
Étude de cas : préparation de la mise en oeuvre à grande échelle des programmes de transferts monétaires dans les situations d’urgence
Case Study
La Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (Fédération internationale) a collaboré, entre mai 2012 et décembre 2013, avec les Sociétés nationales de quatre pays pilotes – Croix-Rouge philippine, Croix-Rouge du Viet Nam, Croix-Rouge sénégalaise et...
CTP factsheet – Chilean Red Cross – cash transfer preparedness pilot
Report
The IFRC worked with four pilot countries between May 2012 and December 2013 to enable the National Societies to use cash transfer programming to address relief needs at scale, implementing it more rapidly and targeting a larger number of households. The Chilean Red Cross was one of the four...
Croix-Rouge chilienne Projet pilote de préparation à la réalisation de transferts monétaires
Rapport
La Fédération internationale a travaillé avec les quatre pays pilotes entre mai 2012 et décembre 2013 pour que ces Sociétés nationales puissent répondre sur une grande échelle aux besoins en secours à l’aide de programmes de transferts monétaires, en les mettant en oeuvre plus...
Humanitarian Response to Urban Crises: Workshop Report
Report
The UK government’s Humanitarian Emergency Response Review recognised that ‘the concentration of populations in urban areas will change the nature of many humanitarian disasters.’ii DFID is exploring how it can increase understanding, confidence and capability to prepare for and respond to urban...
Étude de cadrage: les transferts monétaires d’urgence dans les secteurs WASH et du logement
Rapport
Ces dernières années, les discussions au sujet des transferts monétaires ont cessé de remettre en cause la validité de la distribution d’argent et de coupons en tant que modalité d’intervention, comme c’était le cas initialement. Aujourd’hui, leur valeur ajoutée dans les contextes...
Scoping study – Emergency cash transfer programming in the WaSH and shelter sectors
Report
Over the past few years, the dialogue on cash transfer programming has progressed beyond initial debates about whether distributing cash and vouchers is a valid response modality at all to a general acceptance of their added value in appropriate contexts. Beyond the livelihoods and food...
Estudio de caso: Preparación para la elaboración de programas de transferencias monetarias en la escala adecuada
Case Study
Entre mayo de 2012 y diciembre 2013, la Federación Internacional de Sociedades de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja (Federación Internacional) trabajó en un proyecto piloto con las Sociedades Nacionales de cuatro países, a saber, la cruz Roja de Filipinas, la Cruz Roja de Vietnam, la Cruz Roja...
Humanitarian crises, emergency preparedness and response: The roles of business and the private sector – final report and case studies from Indonesia, Kenya, Jordan and Haiti
Report
The private sector has long been a major contributor to humanitarian action. At the community level, businesses frequently use their materials and resources to aid people affected by crises. As local markets recover and supply chains are repaired, crisis-affected people are once again able to access basic...
Cruz Roja Chilena: Proyecto piloto de preparación para la elaboración de programas de transferencias monetarias
Informe
La Federación Internacional trabajó con las Sociedades Nacionales de los cuatro países piloto entre mayo de 2012 y diciembre de 2013 para que estas pudieran ejecutar programas de transferencias monetarias a amplia escala con el fin de atender las necesidades de socorro con mayor celeridad y en...
Disaster Response: Mobile Money for the Displaced
Report
Advances in mobile technology have opened up new opportunities, not only for communication, but also for using the mobile handset as a platform for a range of applications. The introduction of data transfer facilities and the rise of mobile financial services around the world have allowed mobile money...
Economic Strengthening for Child Protection & Education in Emergencies
Guidelines and Tools
The aim of this compendium is to provide education and child protection coordinators and partners working in the field who are involved in or confronted with economic strengthening programmes with key existing evidence and guidance documents in order to inform their work, at all stages of a programme...
Cash Transfers and HIV Prevention
Report
This paper proposes some initial principles on how to optimize HIV impacts of cash transfers, by encouraging targeting that: focuses on communities with high rates of new HIV infections, particularly acquired via sexual transmission; reduces local or community levels of economic inequalities between men...