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Lignes directrices : comment utiliser les Hawala en Somalie ?
Guides et outils
Pour distribuer des fonds en Somalie, les agences humanitaires ont de plus en plus fréquemment recours à des sociétés spécialisées dans le transfert d’argent, également connues sous le nom de Hawala. Le présent document définit ce que sont les Hawala, précise leur mode de fonctionnement et...
ACF Côte d’Ivoire: Unconditional Grants via Mobile Phones (Poster)
Report
This one-pager (poster) provides an overview of ACF’s experience transferring cash by mobile phone in the Ivory Coast (a WFP programme).
E-payments in Emergency Cash Transfer Programming
Guidelines and Tools
This 2-pager summarises some of the main features, benefits and challenges of 4 different electronic payment methods that can be used to deliver cash transfers in an emergency: pre-paid cards, smart cards, mobile money and mobile vouchers. It is drawn from the CALP Network research on New Technologies in...
Final Evaluation Report of the Wet Feeding and Cash Transfer Project in Southern Somalia
Report
This evaluation report details the achievements of the ECHO funded Wet Feeding and Resource Transfer project implemented by Danish Refugee Council in Mogadishu and ended on March 30th. This synopsis precedes the details of the project and the evaluation as contained in the report. The wet feeding...
Transparency International Kenya: Food Assistance Integrity Study
Report
The Food Assistance Integrity Study highlights various food approaches in Kenya with the aim of enhancing integrity, accountability, efficiency and cost effectiveness in the implementation of food assistance programs. The study uncovered evidence of critical flaws in the food assistance chain and...
Social Safety Net Project Overview
Report
This presentation provides an overview of a three year social safety net project being implemented by a consortium of Adeso and Save the Children (UK), with the overall aim to reduce community vulnerability to chronic food insecurity in two regions of Somalia/Somaliland identified as being highly...
Comparing the Efficiency, Effectiveness and Impact of Food and Cash for Work Interventions: Lessons Learned from South Sudan
Report
In addition to food aid, which used to be the standard response to food emergencies, alternative instruments of food assistance such as cash and vouchers have increasingly been applied in emergency and transition situations in recent years. The subject of the present study was a comparative analysis of...
Guidelines: How to use Hawala in Somalia
Guidelines and Tools
Money transfer companies, also known as Hawala, are an increasingly popular partner chosen by humanitarian agencies to distribute cash in Somalia. This brief will explain what Hawala are, how they operate, and provide some brief guidelines on how agencies can partner with them to deliver cash transfers in...
UGANDA CASH TRANSFER IMPACT EVALUATION
Case Study
Livelihoods and Economic Recovery in Northern Uganda (Learn 1 & 2)
The Use of Cash Transfers in Emergencies: A focus on the HoA response strategies
Presentation
A focus on the HOA drought response strategies
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)
Guidelines and Tools
A presentation giving insight to LEGS, discussing: Aims of LEGS Rationale of LEGS Development of LEGS Objectives and approaches PRIM LEGS training programme. Taken from the Cash Learning Partnership Global Learning Event Bangkok, 16-17 February 2011.
Natural Disasters: What is the role for social safety nets?
Policy paper
This paper makes the case for why safety nets are an important tool for managing the risk of natural hazards. The use of safety nets is advocated both ex ante, to prevent and mitigate the impact of natural disaster and ex post, to cope with the impacts of natural shocks. Firstly, the paper explores the...
Nairobi Urban Social Protection Programme
Case Study
This case study of an Oxfam urban cash transfer programme in Kenya looks at how cash can be used as part of a national social protection programme to improve access to food of the most vulnerable households, at the same time as developing longer term food and income security initiatives. The report looks...
Cash transfer programming in emergencies: The Cash Learning Partnership’s 5th Global Learning Event
Report
The CALP Network’s 5th Global Learning Event was organised in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The learning event took place in Nairobi, Kenya, and focused on three topics of emerging importance not only to cash transfer programming, but to...
Richer but Resented: What do cash transfers do to social relations and does it matter?
Report
This paper looks at how social protection cash transfers are evaluated primarily in terms of poverty reduction or human capital, with their impact on social relations being under-examined. The authors examine case studies from Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and argue that the impact of cash transfers on...
Evaluation of OGB and HR Cash Consortium in Southern Somalia
Report
In response to the humanitarian emergency of 2006 in southern Somalia, a consortium of five agencies – Oxfam GB, Horn Relief, AFREC, WASDA and Development Concern – implemented the Emergency Drought Response Action (EDRA) programme. This was a cash-based intervention using an innovative approach with...
A case study of the consortium transfer programme in Somalia
Case Study
This case study looks at a consortium cash transfer programme in Somalia in response to the humanitarian crisis of 2006. Details of the context, response analysis and rationale for choosing cash for work and direct cash relief interventions are given along with the programme summary. Perceived impacts and...
Support to Economic Recovery of Urban Households in Karoi town, Zimbabwe (the CALP Network Case Study)
Report
In the urban area of Karoi, Zimbabwe, Save the Children combined cash for work with livelihoods support to meet the immediate food needs and support the economic recovery of poor families. The project used smart cards to transfer cash to beneficiaries, which proved to be an appropriate payment...
Seeking Acceptance: The Promise of Cash in High-Risk Areas
Report
Somalia is one of the world’s most insecure states with a protracted conflict that continues to profoundly affect its civilians. Thirty-two percent of the Somali population – or 2.4 million of its 7.5 million people – is currently in need of humanitarian assistance (FSNAU, 2011a). The needs are...
External Evaluation: Fresh Food Voucher Project by Action Against Hunger in Dadaab Refugee Camps, Kenya
Report
The town of Dadaab in North Eastern Kenya is home to three refugee camps: Hagadera, Dagahaley and Ifo hosting over 240,000 people. The camps were established in mid-1992 after the closure of the Liboi camp, which was too close to the Kenya/Somali border to ensure adequate security. Continued insecurity in...