Publications

This new policy brief delves into the urgency to invest in cash programming in Sudan to address urgent and growing humanitarian needs now, including risks of famine in the coming months.

Mercy Corps’ new study explores the potential of cash at scale to meet increasing humanitarian needs and deliver peoplecentric response.

This best practice paper highlights ZOA's unique Cash-for-Shelter approach and its implementation in Ukraine, allowing others to learn from it.

This report tracks cash and voucher assistance during humanitarian crises, which provides a comprehensive and unique assessment of the state of tracking cash and voucher assistance (CVA) used during humanitarian crises.

In the North-West Syria response, cash assistance is mostly once-off or else for a maximum of 3 months. GOAL Syria is delivering a large-scale value voucher or food kit response to support food security needs. However, needs assessment repeatedly show that households have high non-food needs along with food needs. As a result, GOAL Syria incorporated Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) alongside its value voucher/food kit assistance to cover the cost of the Non-Food Item portion of households monthly survival needs. The MPCA is provided to household's for 6 months- something that is quite new to the North-West Syria response.

Cash transfer programming (CTP) has been hailed by humanitarian actors as an effective and efficient method of delivering aid - a view endorsed by the World Humanitarian Summit (2016). ActionAid UK’s think piece explores whether CTP can be relied upon as a gender transformative tool and whether it has the potential to enhance women’s empowerment.

This report is a summary of the key messages and main outcomes of the same workshop, organised by VOICE in the framework of its Grand Bargain project funded by the Belgian MFA. The event offered space for practitioners (including NGOs, the UN, the Red Cross, EU Member States, private sector officials, academics, and EU representatives) to exchange on best practices and share experiences. Participants explored the role and added value of NGOs in large scale cash transfer programmes all along the program cycle from needs-assessment to monitoring but also in relation to coordination.

A summary of the learnings and recommendations from an internal and external evaluation of the Emergency Cash-First Response to Drought-Affected Communities in the Southern Provinces of Zimbabwe project which was carried out from August 2015 to May 2017.This programme is the first time that cash transfers have been used as a large-scale alternative to food aid in Zimbabwe and the first large-scale provision of cash transfers through mobile money.