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Cash-based approaches in humanitarian emergencies A systematic review. April 2016
Report
Humanitarian actors have a responsibility to ensure that assistance is provided in a way that minimizes risks and maximizes benefits to people affected by crisis. However, there are many challenges in evaluating ‘what works’ in addressing the needs of crisis-affected populations, and translating...
Impact Evaluation of the Multipurpose Cash Assistance Programme
Report
The Syrian crisis is currently in its sixth year, with over one million Syrians still living in Lebanon as refugees. Nearly 60% of all financial resources pledged by UN agencies and INGOs were to secure basic assistance for Syrian refugees, mainly to support them in meeting food and healthcare needs. In...
The Mam’out Project: Seasonal Multiannual Cash Transfers for the Prevention of Acute Malnutrition in Tapoa
Report
In response to alarming rates of acute malnutrition, Action Against Hunger (ACF) initiated a project to strengthen and evaluate the prevention of acute malnutrition of children younger than 36 months in the Tapoa province, Burkina Faso. Using seasonal and multiannual unconditional cash transfers, ACF’s...
Notes d’orientation: les transferts monétaires dans les programmes de moyens d’existence – Amérique Latine
Rapport
Le présent document ainsi que l’atelier d’apprentissage qui a eu lieu dans la ville de Guatemala les 16 et 17 novembre 2015 considèrent en priorité le contexte d’Amérique Centrale. Etant donné le profil des participants et la complexité de la problématique régionale (zone du «corredor...
Guide pour la protection dans le cadre des interventions monétaires
Guides et outils
Ce guide identifie les informations minimum nécessaires et les ressources clés visant à aider les professionnels de l’humanitaire à s’assurer que les risques et les bénéfices en matière de protection soient pris en compte et fassent l’objet d’un suivi tout au long du cycle d’un...
Cash-based programming to address hunger in conflict-affected South Sudan: A case study
Report
For some time aid agencies and donors have recognised the benefits of utilising markets to deliver food assistance. And for almost as long, cash-based programming has been effective in doing this by improving people’s ability to purchase sufficient nutritious food. Addressing hunger through cash...
UNHCR Cash Assistance: Improving refugees lives and supporting local economies
Report
UNHCR’s Cash-Based Interventions (CBI) support the most vulnerable Syrian refugees living within the host community in Jordan. Thanks to generous donor support last year, over 30,000 households received monthly cash assistance, winterisation cash, and cash for health, totalling nearly US $ 85 million....
Karamoja, Uganda: Enhanced Market Analysis
Report
The Market Fundamentals reports serves as starting points for providing efficient and effective market-based response decision support for both emergency and development programs in Karamoja Region of Uganda. It examines the appropriateness and feasibility of modality response options for the region.
Uganda’s Senior Citizens’ Grant: A success story from the heart of Africa
Report
Since 2011, a pilot universal old age pension – known as the Senior Citizens’ Grant (SCG) – has been implemented in Uganda. By 2016, there were 125,000 beneficiaries. A number of studies have demonstrated that the scheme has had significant benefits. Despite the general economic situation worsening...
Cash/Food. A Comparative analysis of the effectiveness of food assistance modalities in refugee settlements
Report
A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of food and cash assistance modalities for household food security in refugee settlements
Cash or Food A Comparative analysis of the effectiveness of food assistance modalities in refugee settlements
Report
A comparative analysis on the effective of food and cash transfer modalities for household food security in refugee settlements in Uganda.
Rapid Assessment for Markets: Bidibidi Refugee Settlement
Report
The Rapid Assessment of Markets (RAM) conducted within the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement and in the surrounding Ugandan towns and trading centres sheds some light upon the rapidly developing network of marketplaces within one of the world’s fastest growing refugee settlements. The RAM highligthed key...
The Other Side of the Coin. The comparative evidence of Cash and in kind transfers in humanitarian situations
Report
This paper reviews the existing evidence on the performance of alternative transfer modalities across humanitarian sectors, including cash transfers, vouchers,and in-kind assistance (food and non-food). These were assessed in relation to food security, nutrition, livelihoods, health, education, and...
The Revival of the “Cash versus Food” Debate: New Evidence for an Old Quandary?
Report
The longstanding “cash versus food” debate has received renewed attention in both research and practice. This paper reviews key issues shaping the debate and presents new evidence from randomized and quasi-experimental evaluations that deliberately compare cash and in-kind food transfers in ten...
Giving Better: Lessons from Cash Grants for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Report
Cash grants to the poor have proven to be an effective form of aid for reducing poverty. Direct cash assistance is inexpensive to administer and allows recipients to buy what they want and need, rather than what experts think they need. Recent research shows that cash grants also work well for assisting...
A Review of Evidence of Humanitarian Cash Transfer Programming in Urban Areas: Annexes
Report
Annexes to accompany the working paper ‘A review of evidence
of humanitarian cash transfer programming in urban areas”
Orientations opérationnelles et boîte à outils pour les transferts monétaires à usages multiples
Guides et outils
Les présentes orientations opérationnelles et la boîte à outils qui l’accompagne réunissent une expertise mondiale sur les interventions monétaires. Elles apportent aux acteurs humanitaires des orientations complètes et pratiques afin d’évaluer la faisabilité des transferts monétaires,...
Integrating Gender throughout a Project’s Life cycle 2.0: A Guidance Document for International Development Organisations and Practitioners
Guidelines and Tools
The overarching premise of this document is that to conduct effective, responsible development work, incorporating gender at all stages of a project’s life cycle – from project design and proposal development to field implementation and monitoring, evaluation and learning – is critical. As such,...
Guide for Protection in Cash based Interventions
Guidelines and Tools
This guide identifies minimum necessary information and key resources needed to help humanitarian practitioners ensure that protection risks and benefits are considered and monitored throughout the cash-based interventions (CBI) program cycle, using a community-based approach and participatory methods as...
Notas de orientación sobre transferencias monetarias y medios de vida- Africa Occidental
Guía y herramientas
A raíz de los debates sobre el papel de las transferencias monetarias en el fortalecimiento de la resiliencia, la creciente aceptación de las transferencias en efectivo como herramienta intersectorial se ha visto acompañada de una mejor comprensión de este enfoque y de su potencial para romper el...