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Introducing the ELAN Data Starter Kit
Blog Post
Electronic cash transfers (e-transfers) often necessitate the transfer of personal data, some of which is sensitive, between humanitarian and private sector actors, such as financial service providers (FSPs). As use of e-transfers increases, having strong data management and protection practices in place...
Data management and protection starter kit: Tip sheet 1: Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
Guidelines and Tools
A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a systematic analysis of the potential privacy risks related to data collected during program implementation. A PIA analyzes threats and risks to program data, including any legal and environmental factors, and develops mitigation strategies. PIAs help humanitarians...
Data Starter Kit for Humanitarian Field Staff
Guidelines and Tools
A practical guide to help humanitarian field staff understand and manage data protection issues.
Data Protection Case Study: Nigeria
Report
In March 2016, the Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) brought together Mercy Corps’ and Catholic Relief Services’ Nigeria teams to discuss data protection in their electronic voucher programs and overall operations. Because data protection relies so heaviliy on context (e.g.,...
Principles on Public-Private Cooperation in Humanitarian Payments
Guidelines and Tools
E-payments can make the delivery of cash disbursements more secure, cost- effective, faster and more convenient. In the context of humanitarian crises, digital payments offer recipients choice and can help stimulate the local economy. To fully realize the benefits of new technologies and achieve scale,...
Data management and protection starter kit: Tip sheet 6: Responsibly Sharing Data
Guidelines and Tools
Data sharing is the ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. In e-transfer programs, data about program participants is often shared with financial service providers (FSPs) and/or
governments for programmatic and regulatory reasons. This Tip Sheet explains the different...
Data management and protection starter kit: Tip sheet 4: Registration
Guidelines and Tools
Registration is the process of collecting information on program participants so that your team has a clear record of who is participating and a means to verify participants’ identity throughout the program lifecycle. Registration is also one of the first opportunities to demonstrate responsible data...
The Politics of Cash: A Case Study on Humanitarian Cash Transfers in Ukraine
Report
This case study examines the evolution of cash transfers in the humanitarian response in Ukraine. The use of cash transfers in Ukraine brought out the best and worst aspects of the international humanitarian system. Uncertainty over where cash fits into the humanitarian architecture – and whether...
Data management and protection starter kit: Tip sheet 2: Data minimization
Guidelines and Tools
Data minimization is a privacy principle that requires the people collecting data to be intentional about what type of data is collected and how long it is retained. To meet this principle, teams should limit data collection to what is directly relevant and necessary to accomplish a specified purpose. In...
Data management and protection starter kit: Tip sheet 5: Encryption
Guidelines and Tools
Les transferts monétaires et la programmation à distance en situation d’urgence
Guides et outils
Dans des situations d’urgence où les acteurs humanitaires rencontrent de grandes difficultés d’accès, l’utilisation de programmes de transferts monétaires (PTM ou CPT en anglais pour Cash Transfer Programmes) présente un fort potentiel pour aider à fournir un soutien vital aux personnes les...
Data management and protection starter kit: Tip sheet 7: Data retention, archiving and disposal
Guidelines and Tools
Data retention refers to the length of time that data is kept by the organization that gathered it. Data archiving describes the intentional preservation of data in a format that makes it easy for collaborators to refer back to. And data disposal is the process of deleting data in a safe and responsible...
New the CALP Network Online Training Course: “E-Transfers and operationalizing beneficiary data protection”
Blog Post
With the increase in the use of electronic transfers (e-transfers) in the humanitarian sector, concerns regarding information management of beneficiaries’ data have risen among humanitarian agencies. Although there are principles and operational standards that provide a framework for the protection of...
Protection in Cash Based Interventions – Interviews with Richard Nunn and Lou Lasap
Blog Post
As part of an ECHO-funded Enhanced Response Capacity grant, UNHCR in partnership with WFP, Oxfam GB and the Cash Learning Partnership held an inter-agency workshop on cash and protection in Nairobi on the 10-12th March. The workshop brought together cash and protection practitioners to reflect upon...
Doing Digital Finance Right: The case for stronger mitigation of customer risks
Policy paper
Low-income consumers stand to benefit greatly from more accessible and affordable digital financial services (DFS) offerings. Indeed, evidence from consumer research in 16 markets analyzed for this paper indicates that customers highly value and benefit from many basic DFS. However, many users are not...
Cash in Emergencies Toolkit
Guidelines and Tools
Access Toolkit Here Cash transfer based programming (CTP) is an effective and flexible way to support people affected by emergencies, maintaining their dignity and choice, while fostering local economies. CTP includes all forms of cash and voucher-based assistance. The Cash in Emergencies Toolkit has been...
Tips for Protection in Cash based interventions
Guidelines and Tools
This document presents a set of general tips to identify, monitor and mitigate protection risks and maximize protection benefits of cash-based interventions.
Know Your Customer Standards and Privacy Recommendations for Cash Transfers
Guidelines and Tools
This report reviews how Know Your Customer (KYC) standards – rules designed to combat criminal money laundering and terrorism financing – are applied in humanitarian cash programs. The report examines the practices of aid agencies and their processing of the personal information of...
Challenges and the State of Play of Interoperability in Cash Transfer Programming
Guidelines and Tools
This study explores the factors driving the design of interoperability for Cash Transfer Programming. It outlines the rapidly changing environment in which digital services are emerging, the types of digital collaborations that could be enabled, and the key design challenges that confront effective...
Privacy Impact Assessment of UNHCR Cash Based Interventions
Report
In 2014, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) commissioned Trilateral Research & Consulting to conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) of two of its Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) in middle-income countries. The purpose of the PIAs was to help UNHCR assess the...
