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Meeting immediate needs and protecting development gains: Lessons from Ethiopia’s drought response
Case Study
From April to October 2022, Mercy Corps’ Resilience in Pastoral Areas, North (RIPA-North) program provided a humanitarian drought response in the Somali Region of Ethiopia funded by the activation of a crisis modifier. This drought response was designed to complement and build on the Market Systems...
Delivering Better Together: Standard Operating Procedures for Oxfam’s Approach to Cash and Voucher Assistance
Guidelines and Tools
Delivering Better Together: SOPs for Oxfam’s Approach to Cash and Voucher Assistance is a digital guide to all things cash and vouchers in Oxfam that can be downloaded to and accessed from a phone, tablet, or any other device. The SOPs focus on the basics of cash and vouchers, the use of it for...
Cash Transfers in Pandemic Times
Report
This paper by Ugo Gentilini, brings together trends, evidence and practices generated over the course of the pandemic. The focus revolves primarily around social assistance in general and cash transfers in particular, with both anchored to the broader remit of social protection. The objective is to give a...
Digital Feast and Famine: Digital Technologies and Humanitarian Law in Food Security, Starvation and Famine Risk
Report
This working paper presents the findings of a brief exploratory study into the role of digital technologies in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and its implications for starvation and famine risk. It is a work in progress, intended to raise issues rather than reach definitive conclusions (given the...
How do great ideas scale? Learning from successes in humanitarian innovation
Report
Scaling innovations in the humanitarian sector is notoriously difficult, and existing research highlights the many barriers and challenges to scaling humanitarian innovations. This study sought to fill an important gap in the literature by identifying and outlining key lessons from humanitarian...
Outil d’Évaluation Rapide pour les premières 48 heures – Objectifs et notes d’orientation
Guides et outils
Le but de cet outil est d’obtenir une compréhension rapide de la situation de la sécurité alimentaire et des moyens d’existences dans les premiers jours qui suivent un sinistre à installation rapide. Cet outil est indépendant des autres évaluations multisectorielles inter-agence, par exemple le...
Herramienta de Evaluación para las Primeras 48 Horas – Objetivo y notas orientadoras
Guía y herramientas
El propósito de la Herramienta de Evaluación para las Primeras 48 Horas, es tener una comprensión rápida de la situación de seguridad alimentaria y medios de subsistencia, en los primeros días posteriores a un desastre de inicio rápido. Esta herramienta es independiente de otras utilizadas para...
SHARE SPACE Do child grants lead to increased pregnancies? An evidence view from Asia and the Pacific
Policy paper
Despite strong evidence showing that broad-based cash transfers targeting pregnant women and young children reduce poverty, improve health, nutrition and education and increase economic growth, concerns are often raised among policymakers that these payments may increase incentives to have children, in...
Modality Decision Tool: Nutrition Addendum
Guidelines and Tools
The Modality Decision Tool (MDT): Nutrition Addendum aids implementing partners to apply a nutrition lens to the selection of appropriate food assistance modalities (cash, vouchers or in-kind) for the nutritionally vulnerable. This addendum is primarily oriented to USAID/BHA’s “supplemental nutrition...
Considering & incorporating CVA into nutrition programming – a 3 step programming tool
Guidelines and Tools
This tool is intended to support nutrition practitioners with how to assess appropriateness of cash and vouchers assistance (CVA) in emergency nutrition programming, to support, complement, maximize other modalities more routinely considered in nutrition programming. This tool takes the user through the...