Multi-purpose cash assistance and health: Evaluating the effect of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme on access to health care for refugees in Turkey

Policy paper

This policy brief provides a summarizations of a 2019 analysis of data collected by WFP between 2017 and 2019 on refugees in Turkey including the Comprehensive Vulnerability Monitoring Exercise (CVME) in addition to longitudinal data from Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme applicant households...

18 December 2019

Biometric Data Collection in Humanitarian Action: Through the lens of responsible data management

Webinar

20 November 2019 / English

Assistência em Dinheiro e Cupões que Funciona para as Mulheres: 6 lições do terreno

Report

A Assistência em Dinheiro e Cupões (CVA) é actualmente uma ferramenta comum na acção humanitária que é utilizada para fazer face, com maior dignidade, às diversas necessidades de pessoas refugiadas por motivo de crises e conflitos. Embora existam cada vez mais evidências do efeito da CVA no...

11 November 2019

Les Transferts Monétaires qui Fonctionnent Pour les Femmes : 6 leçons apprises sur le terrain

Rapport

Le transfert monétaire (TM) est désormais un outil courant dans l’action humanitaire, utilisé pour répondre avec une plus grande dignité aux divers besoins des personnes déplacées par la crise ou les conflits.1 Bien qu’il y ait un nombre croissant de preuves sur l’effet du TM sur le...

8 November 2019

برنامج المساعدات النقدية والقسائم المناسب للنساء_النسخة العربية

تقرير

Building on CARE’s commitment to be ‘cash ready’ to achieve breakthroughs with and for women and girl, CARE commissioned a study –in Malawi, Haiti, Jordan, the Philippines and Niger–on gender-sensitive CVA that allowed actual CVA recipients to frame the discussion. This is a brief from the...

8 November 2019

Cash and Voucher Assistance that Works for Women: 6 lessons from the field

Report

Building on CARE’s commitment to be ‘cash ready’ to achieve breakthroughs with and for women and girl, CARE commissioned a study –in Malawi, Haiti, Jordan, the Philippines and Niger–on gender-sensitive CVA that allowed actual CVA recipients to frame the discussion. This is a brief from the...

8 November 2019

Programación de Transferencias Monetarias Que Funciona Para Mujeres: 6 Lecciones del Terreno

Informe

En la actualidad, la Programación de Transferencias Monetarías que funciona para mujeres (PTM) es una herramienta común entre las acciones humanitarias y se usa para satisfacer las diversas necesidades de las personas desplazadas por crisis y conflictos con mayor dignidad.1 Aunque existe evidencia...

8 November 2019

Linking Social Protection and Humanitarian Response – Best Practice

Report

This review looks at the alignment of humanitarian response in refugee crises with national social protection systems. It examines the experience of three countries dealing with protracted refugee situations: Turkey, Lebanon and Cameroon, and also identifies lessons from other literature. The number of...

5 November 2019

Mitigating Risks of Abuse of Power in Cash Assistance – 4 pages

Report

UNHCR and WFP are implementing a joint project to identify and mitigate risks of abuse by private sector service providers in their delivery of cash assistance to vulnerable populations. The project involves work with financial service providers, traders and other private sector stakeholders, as well as...

November 2019

المساعدات النقدية في لبنان المساءلة أمام السكان المتضررين

تقرير

تعمل المساعدات النقدية والقسائم (CVA) على تغيير طريقة تنفيذ المساعدات الإنسانية، حيث أصبحت طريقة أكثر شيوعاً لتقديم الإغاثة بين القطاعات. وقد تعهدت الجهات المانحة...

29 October 2019

Cash Assistance in Lebanon: Accountability to Affected Populations

Report

The international humanitarian response to the devastating Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon has grown steadily since 2011 and, today, cash and voucher assistance (CVA) comprises over a third of this assistance. The World Food Programme (WFP) started implementation of its multi-purpose cash (MPC) programme...

29 October 2019

Multi-Purpose Cash Transfer ‘Plus’: Maximizing impact on children through integrated cash-based programming

Report

In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Colombia. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative coping strategies,...

19 October 2019

Mitigating Risks of Abuse of Power in Cash Assistance in Afghanistan

Report

This document outlines lessons learned from a joint UNHCR-WFP project in Afghanistan aimed at identifying and mitigating the risks of abuse of power in cash assistance. The cash transfer mechanisms discussed during the mission were cash distribution through Hawalas, mobile token, mobile e-vouchers and...

July 2019

CBI TWG Meeting Minutes 29-01-19

Report

CBI TWG Meeting Minutes 29-01-19

19 January 2019

Mitigating Risks of Abuse of Power in Cash Assistance in Iraq

Report

This document outlines lessons learned from a joint UNHCR/WFP project in Iraq aimed at identifying and mitigating the risks of abuse of power in cash assistance. The cash transfer mechanisms reviewed during the
project include mobile money, e-vouchers and cash delivered through money transfer agents.

January 2019

The Gendered Dimension of Multi-Purpose Cash Supporting Disaster Resilience

Report

In 2017, in response to the mounting humanitarian crisis in Yemen, CARE Yemen and Action Contra la Faim (ACF) implemented a cash transfer program and community asset rehabilitation and skill building programing in the governorates of Abyan and Amran. This European Union (EU)-funded program integrated...

2019

Mission Wrap-Up: Ten Key Findings

Guidelines and Tools

Joint Donor Mission on cash programming to Jordan and Lebanon 4-8 February 2018

February 2018