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Mission Wrap-Up: Ten Key Findings
Guidelines and Tools
Joint Donor Mission on cash programming to Jordan and Lebanon 4-8 February 2018
برمجة التحويلات النقدية في السياقات الصعبة: دراسة حالة حول برمجة التحويلات النقدية والمخاطر في اليمن 2015-2018
تقرير
اليمن من أكثر البلدان ضعفاً في العالم، وقد عانى طويلاً من الفقر وعدم الاستقرار والضعف. النزاع الذي اندلع منذ أواخر عام 2014، وبشكل أكثر تحديداً منذ مارس 2015، ترك 22 مليون...
برنامج التحويلات النقدية في السياقات الصعبة: دراسة حالة عن برنامج التحويلات النقدية والمخاطر في اليمن 2015-2018 – ملخص
تقرير
اليمن من أكثر البلدان ضعفاً في العالم، وقد عانى طويلاً من الفقر وعدم الاستقرار والضعف. النزاع الذي اندلع منذ أواخر عام 2014، وبشكل أكثر تحديداً منذ مارس 2015، ترك 22 مليون...
Market Systems in Libya: Assessment of the Wheat Flour, Insulin, Tomato and Soap Supply Chains
Report
The Market Systems in Libya assessment aims to provide humanitarian organisations with a better understanding of market dynamics in Libya, information on key supply chains and how they have been impacted by ongoing conflict, and the necessary foundation to examine the potential of scaling up market and...
Libya Cash and Markets Working Group (CMWG) Advocacy and Communications Plan
Report
The Libya Cash & Markets Working Group (CMWG) Strategic Framework & 2017 Workplan outlines ‘communication and advocacy’ as a ‘deliverable’ for supporting ‘HC/HCT decision making’.
Throughout March & April 2017, the CMWG Steering Committee used a series of tools as part of a seven-step process...
Cash Consortium of Iraq (CCI)
Report
The Cash Consortium Iraq (CCI) was selected as a case study to illustrate a consortium model of inter-agency collaboration for multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA), with a formal relationship between partners and a shared funding stream, both bilaterally to member agencies and through the lead agency. It...
MEB and Transfer Value Guide
Guidelines and Tools
This document is the harmonized Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) and transfer value of the Libya Cash & Markets WG (CMWG) for April – June 2017 (Q2). Currently the data available is only enough to inform calculations for Libyans (IDPs and host).
Libya Humanitarian Cash Working Group (CWG) Key Messages on Government Payments
Report
The purpose of this document is to address one of the primary concerns of stakeholders prioritising the delivery of cash based interventions in Libya:
The majority of beneficiaries receiving cash assistance are already have other sources of income (government payments in particular) Therefore they do not...
Challenging the System: Humanitarian Cash Transfers in Iraq
Report
Cash transfers have been used in Iraq to meet the critical basic needs of a highly vulnerable population, providing them dignity and flexibility in a context of uncertainty and economic need. Although Iraq is an appropriate context for the use of cash transfers, factors including government acceptance,...
Cash Transfer Programming: Lessons from northern Iraq
Report
In situations of conflict, disaster and protracted crisis, displaced persons not only face physical threats but are also confronted with the challenge of economic survival. High levels of general unemployment or legal barriers to labour market entry often restrict access to jobs and income, and...
Libya Humanitarian Cash Working Group (CWG) Key Messages
Report
The purpose of this document is to provide key messages of the Cash Working Group (CWG) that can be used in discussions with humanitarian stakeholders. This document is not designed to be passed to interlocutors, but rather inform CWG members on key points to raise in discussions.
Cash transfers for refugees. The economic and social effects of a programme in Jordan
Report
The world is now experiencing the biggest refugee crisis since the second world war, with around 21.35 million refugees reported in 2015 (UNHCR, 2016a). Those countries with the highest outflow of refugees – Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia in 2015 – are facing ongoing conflicts that are unlikely...
As the movement for cash transfer programming advances, how can we ensure that people with disabilities are not left behind in cash transfer programming for emergencies?
Report
It is estimated that 15% of the world’s population has a disability and evidence has shown that those with a disability are likely to be disproportionately affected when a crisis hits. In a 2015 global consultation carried out by Handicap International, 75% of respondents living with a disability, the...
E-Transfers for Hygiene through Red Rose in Northern Syria
Report
Cash is receiving a lot of attention globally and is currently being scaled-up at the highest level. On the 9th February 2016, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched his report for the World Humanitarian Summit, calling for cash-based programming to be the ‘default method of support for affected...
Untapped Humanitarian Demand: A Business Case for Expanding Digital Financial Services
Report
The International Rescue Committee, commissioned Strategy Impact Advisors to build a return on investment (ROI) model to estimate whether or not a business case exists for expanded coverage of digital financial services in crisis-prone areas (Lebanon and the Philippines). This analysis provides...
Finding Economic Opportunity in the City: Lessons from IRC’s Cash and Livelihoods Programmes in Cities within Lebanon and Jordan
Report
This report looks at IRC’s experiences in cash assistance and livelihoods programming in Lebanon and Jordan in the context of the Syrian regional response. It explores opportunities and challenges inherent to cash and livelihoods programming, identifying good practices and ways to integrate other...
Cash Working Groups: A preliminary mapping
Report
Brief overview of the state of cash working groups in emergency settings.
Cash-based Response Feasibility Assessment in Northern Syria
Case Study
As the conflict in Syria extends beyond the fourth year, there is need for a widespread humanitarian response focused on urban areas that addresses humanitarian needs and promotes resilience for the 13.5 million people in need of protection and humanitarian assistance within Syria. The majority of...
Using Cash for Shelter: An Overview of CRS Programs
Report
Cash continues to gain prevalence as a modality for humanitarian agencies to help people meet multiple and diverse needs in the wake of a crisis. It provides people with the dignity of choice, and is often significantly more cost-efficient than the delivery of in-kind aid. In programs with a shelter...
Using Cash for Shelter: Rent Assistance for Syrian Refugees
Case Study
Over 600,000 Syrian refugees have arrived in Jordan since 2011; 80 percent of these live in urban or peri-urban locations rather than in camp settings. Families in this situation must pay rent for their shelter, and are therefore subject to shifts in rental market values. Rents have inflated substantially...