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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...

April 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

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....

October 2017

Payment Services in Nigeria: A humanitarian perspective

Guidelines and Tools

This assessment was conducted as one component of a broader inter-agency exercise to inform the use of Multi-Purpose Grants in Nigeria. As such, it examines the financial services landscape in Nigeria, in order to support the review and selection of financial service providers (FSPs) for the delivery of...

July 2017

Feasibility Assessment of Cash-Based Interventions in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states of Nigeria

Report

Outputs
• Analyse the feasibility and available response options for
potential CBIs covering basic needs, livelihoods and
support to vulnerable persons, and moving forward
toward MPGs
• Recommendations and action points……
• Support the Design of a CBI intervention and develop SOPs (2017)
•...

2017

Nigeria Acceptance And Safety Assessment

Guidelines and Tools

This review seeks to provide an overview of i) the Government of Nigeria’s attitude towards cash being used as a modality of assistance, as well as to ii) outline particular protection concerns and potential corresponding mitigation measures relating to the use of cash transfer programmes in the

2017

Humanitarian Cash Transfer Programming Symposium – Cash based responses in North-eastern Nigeria: harmonising CTP approaches, sharing learning and cash transfer mechanisms experiences

Report

With the increasing use of cash based responses in NE Nigeria the humanitarian organisations identified the need to share the knowledge and experiences that exist to date. The Humanitarian Cash Transfer Symposium was a structured workshop for humanitarian organisations to share experiences, learnings, and...

13 April 2016

Data Protection Case Study: Nigeria

Report

In March 2016, the Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) brought together Mercy Corps’ and Catholic Relief Services’ Nigeria teams to discuss data protection in their electronic voucher programs and overall operations. Because data protection relies so heaviliy on context (e.g.,...

2016

What to know: working with humanitarians on e-cash programs

Report

International humanitarian assistance rose to a record US$24.5 billion in 2014. The 2015 Global Humanitarian Assistance Report indicated that over US$200 million of this was used in cash and voucher programs. An increasing number of humanitarian actors have begun to deliver cash electronically, through...

2016

E-Vouchers in Northeast Nigeria

Report

OVERVIEW OF RED ROSE PLATFORM DECISION TO USE IT. WHY?
The urgency of rapidly responding to the urgent food security needs of
vulnerable households in Northeast Nigeria displaced by conflict while
supporting the rapid recovery of small businesses in the food market
chain.
The importance of fostering...

2015

Planifier l’adoption par le gouvernement d’un programme de protection sociale dans un climat d’insécurité : le Programme de Subventions pour le Développement des Enfants au nord Nigeria

Rapport

Les programmes de transfert monétaire sont de plus en plus utilisés en Afrique de l’Ouest lors des interventions en réponse aux crises alimentaires et nutritionnelles. Au-delà des situations d’urgence, les mécanismes de transfert monétaire jouent un rôle majeur dans les stratégies et...

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...

2014

How Effective are Cash Transfer Programmes at Improving Nutritional Status?

Report

Cash transfer programmes are a widely applied social protection scheme that has achieved successes in fighting poverty worldwide. A large literature has sprung up around these programmes, yet the relationship between cash transfer programmes and the nutritional status of recipient children is unclear. Can...

July 2012

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