Other actor's experience on Cash Transfer Projects

Helvetas' Cash for Livelihood Restoration Project, Sri Lanka

Cash for Livelihood Restoration Project, Sri Lanka

In response to the tsunami Helvetas Sri Lanka implemented a 'Cash for Livelihood Restoration Project' in Ampara District in Sri Lanka. Swiss Solidarity, Helvetas and SDC funded the project.

Field-tested experience and good practices in implementing the project have been documented.

International Red Cross and Red Cresent Movement

Guidelines for cash transfer programming

The guidelines are for field practitioners with experience of humanitarian programmes. This includes generalists such as programme managers or relief coordinators, as well as specialists on food security, economic security, livelihoods of shelter. The guidelines are designed for use by the entire Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, whether operating at national or international level or based in headquarters, the field or a branch office.

Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London

The HPG research project on Cash and vouchers in emergencies, 2006

This project examines the use of cash and vouchers to provide people with assistance in emergency situations. Despite a strong theoretical case for cash and vouchers, commodity-based distributions of food aid, seeds, shelter materials and non-food items remain the dominant form of response in most emergencies. The willingness of aid agencies and donors to consider cash and vouchers has been limited. There is, however, a growing body of experience with these approaches.

Oxfam GB

Cash-Transfer programming in emergencies: A practical guide, 2006

In this guide, Oxfam staff present the rationale behind cash-transfer programmes. They explain how to assess whether cash is the most appropriate response to any particular emergency. Different types of cash intervention are compared - cash grants, vouchers, and cash-for-work - with checklists to explain how to implement each of them. The book draws on the practical experience of Oxfam and other agencies, including responses to the devastation caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004.

Worldbank

3rd international Conditional Cash Transfer conference in Istanbul, Turkey, 26-30 June 2006

This site presents a collection of the many presentations, discussions and outcomes of the Third International Conditional Cash Transfers Conference. All sessions are summarized in session reports. Furthermore you will be able to browse through the many presentations and resource documents provided in English and Spanish.