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Planning for government adoption of a social protection programme in an insecure environment: the Child Grant Development Programme in northern Nigeria
Report
Cash transfer programming (CTP) is increasingly used in West Africa in response to food and nutritional crisis. Beyond emergency situations, cash transfer mechanisms are key mechanisms for national social protection strategies and policies. Despite the rapid development of social...
Regional Learning Event: “Links between emergency cash transfer programming and social safety nets in the Sahel.” – Final report
Report
Cash transfers are nowadays widely used in response to the food and nutrition crises that affect the Sahel. Since the crisis of 2012, many stakeholders (including governments, United Nations agencies, international or local non-governmental organisations) have made use of them – at scale, in some cases....
Transfert monétaire par l’intermédiaire de commerçants: Guide pratique des transferts monétaires en situations d’urgence
Guides et outils
Ce mini-guide présente quelques informations pratiques sur l’utilisation des cartes pour effectuer des transferts monétaires par intermédiaire de commerçants. Le guide comprend les informations suivantes: – Conditions préalables – Description de la méthode de paiement – Avantages et...
Is Cash Transfer a Better Devil than Food Aid? A study of Malawi’s use of cash transfer as a response tool to food insecurity in 2012/2013 and 2013/2014
Report
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami is considered as the first humanitarian situation where cash transfers were used as an alternative to food aid. Since then, cash transfers have been used as a standalone response tool to disasters, or used in combination with food aid. Malawi piloted the use of cash...
Humanitarian Needs Assessment – The Good Enough Guide
Report
Needs assessment is essential for programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability, however needs assessment is still a critical weakness of humanitarian response. Organizations urgently need to improve how they do assessments. The humanitarian community has been working on this issue...
Emergency Economies: The impact of cash assistance in Lebanon
Report
An impact evaluation of the 2013-2014 winter cash assistance program for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. This report describes the impacts of the winter cash transfer program run by UNHCR and partners from November 2013 to April 2014. The program gave $575 USD via ATM cards to 87,700 registered Syrian...
Cash Transfers and Resilience: Strengthening Linkages Between Emergency Cash Transfers and National Social Transfer Programmes in the Sahel – Discussion Paper
Report
This discussion paper has been inspired by the exchanges that took place during the course of the learning event. It seeks to extend the discussion to include other actors working within the region, as well as in other regions confronted with the same questions. It proposes an initial approach to the...
Sector Indicator Guidance for Programming
Guidelines and Tools
The country Programming Instructions that were sent to EU Delegations and HQ services in mid-May 2012 for the programming period 2014-2020, requested the EU Delegations and services to provide, in the second phase of the programming process, a description of specific objectives for proposed priority...
Réduire la pauvreté et investir dans le capital humain : le nouveau rôle des filets sociaux en Afrique – Études de cas dans 22 pays
Rapport
La stratégie de protection sociale de la Banque mondiale pour l’Afrique de 2012 à 2022 met en lumière la nécessité d’établir une base factuelle solide pour étayer la préparation et la mise en œuvre de programmes de protection sociale sur ce continent. Depuis 2009, la Banque mondiale a...
Lesotho: A Safety Net to End Extreme Poverty
Report
The objective of this study is to help the government to decide what role safety net and transfer programs should play in the coming 5 to 10 years. It seeks to answer three questions: Can increased spending on transfers accelerate poverty reduction in the medium to long term? Which groups and aspects of...
Protéger la vie privée des bénéficiaires: Principes et normes operationnelles pour une utilisation securisee des donnees personnelles dans les programmes de transfert monetaire et electronique
Rapport
Les transferts électroniques sont porteurs de risques inhérents relatifs à la collecte et au traitement des données personnelles des bénéficiaires. Toutefois, à ce jour, ces risques sont largement méconnus et ils font l’objet de peu de solutions. Les pratiques des organisations sont rarement...
Pilots, principles or patronage: what makes social protection succeed in southern Africa?
Report
The Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) has commissioned studies of 20 social transfer schemes and a range of thematic papers on the conceptualisation, design, implementation and impacts of social protection programmes in six southern African countries: Lesotho, Malawi....
The Economic Impacts of Cash Transfer Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Report
This brief brings together the critical mass of evidence that has emerged from recent rigorous impact evaluations of government-run cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. Most, but not all, of the programmes belong to the Transfer Project, a community of practice created to share lessons,...
Directives pour la mise en oeuvre de transferts électroniques en situation d’urgence
Rapport
Les transferts électroniques sont une forme de transfert de valeurs qui s’appuient sur des systèmes de paiement numérique. Les très nombreux avantages que peuvent conférer ces transferts aux bénéficiaires aussi bien qu’aux organisations d’aide humanitaire ont été abondamment documentés....
Social protection in developing countries – The Lesotho Old Age Pension (MSc Thesis)
Report
By using the example of the noncontributory pension scheme in Lesotho, the author explores the process of implementing social protection in developing countries, looking at how constraints can be overcome and what consequences can be found. This paper also looks at the justification for directing such...
Les transferts sociaux dans la lutte contre la faim – Un instrument de référence pour les praticiens du développement
Rapport
Le document de référence a été écrit en premier lieu pour les praticiens du développement et les administrateurs de l’aide opérant au sein des délégations de l’Union européenne et des bureaux pays des États membres. Il a pour but de fournir des connaissances de base — terminologie et...
The Public Pursuit of Secure Welfare: Background Paper on International Development Institutions, Social Protection & Developing Countries
Report
This paper provides an overview of the development of the conceptual framework underlying social protection programming and policy among the key international development institutions active in this sector. It sets out the historical, institutional and political factors underlying the current debate,...
Transferts Monétaires et Résilience : Renforcer les liens entre transferts monétaires d’urgence et programmes nationaux de transferts sociaux dans le Sahel – Document de discussion
Rapport
Suite à une prise de conscience ces dernières années par les acteurs de la région sahelienne, un nombre croissant d’États ont engagé une dynamique visant à mettre en place des programmes permanents de transferts sociaux afin que l’aide aux populations les plus vulnérables devienne plus...
The EU and Social Protection in Africa
Report
The European Report on Development recommends that the EU should make social protection an integral and central component of its development policy. But what can the EU bring to the social protection agenda of African and other developing countries?
Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards: Second Edition
Guidelines and Tools
Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) is a set of international guidelines and standards for designing, implementing, and evaluating livestock interventions to help people affected by humanitarian crises. LEGS is based on three livelihoods objectives: to provide rapid assistance, to protect...
