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“Experiences with Cash based approaches at Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation” by Mathias January 2008
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CFH-III Dundgobi monitoring report 2004-2005 January 2008
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Report on the “Knowledge transfer workshop on cash-based approaches in Mongolia, November 6-7, 20 January 2008
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“Cash Transfer as relief action” by D.Turbat, National Emergency Management Agency of Mongolia January 2008
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“Cash for Herders implemented by SDC in Khovd” by Ts.Enkh-Amgalan, Social Policy Coordination Depart January 2008
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“Cash based approach in Social Welfare Services of Mongolia. Experiences, Present situation and futu January 2008
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“Introduction to index-based livestock insurance projects in Mongolia” by IBLIP, Mongolia January 2008
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“Cash for Herders in Mongolia 2002-2006” by Durziijalbuu Sengee, SDC in Mongolia January 2008
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“International Federation of Red Cross/ Red Crescent” by Marc Fumeaux, Livelihoods Coordinator, IFRC January 2008
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“The social assistance system in Mongolia: An unfinished agenda” by Arshad Sayed, World Bank January 2008
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“Introductory thoughts on index-based micro insurance” by Mathias Rickli, SDC HQ January 2008
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Cash for Herder II - Mongolia, External Review Report December 2007 Joint IFRC-SDC External Review of In-kind and Cash Distribution Projects in 2003 in Zavkhan Aimag Mongolia
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Conditional Cash Transfer Programm “Con Todo Derecho”, City of Buenos Aires November 2007 Author: Irene Novacovsky, Tucumán 1961, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina Ciudadanía Porteña “Con Todo Derecho” was created by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires (Law 1878/05). The objective of the program was to revert the precarious living conditions that affected a significant segment of the city’s population. It is a conditional cash transfer program (CCT), which targets poor and extremely poor households. Its beneficiaries must comply with certain commitments and obligations related to education, health and legal identification.
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The potential for joint programmes for long-term cash transfers in unstable situations September 2007 Author: Paul Harvey and Rebecca Holmes This paper examines the potential for jointly funded long-term cash transfers to form part of social protection in unstable situations. It argues that there are three essential challenges: Financing - how to provide longer term, more harmonised and predictable funding for social transfers in unstable situations; Actors and delivery capacity - which actors or combinations of actors could deliver social transfers at scale; Mechanisms - the form a social transfer should take (food or cash).
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Cash-based responses in emergencies January 2007 Author: Paul Harvey, ODI This paper is the final product of a three-year research project looking into when the option of giving people money instead of, or as well as, in-kind assistance is feasible and appropriate. Pointing to the strong body of evidence that is starting to emerge to indicate that providing people with cash or vouchers works, it suggests that there is scope for significantly increasing the use of cash and vouchers as an instrument in humanitarian response, in a wide range of contexts.
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Cash and Food Transfers: A Primer January 2007 Author: Ugo Gentilini The objective of this paper is to unpack the various aspects of the “cash versus food” debate, to map out where the controversies lie and to demonstrate the need for a more pragmatic, balanced and contextspecific approach. A key message is that appropriateness cannot be predetermined since programme objectives, the economics of food consumption, market analysis, costs effectiveness and efficiency, capacity requirements and beneficiary preferences all play a role in determining the most appropriate option or combinations of options.
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Evaluation of the Cash Consortium in Southern Somalia January 2007 Author: Nisar Majid, Ibrahim Hussein, Halima Shuria In response to the humanitarian emergency of 2006 in southern Somalia, a consortium of five agencies – Oxfam GB, Horn Relief, AFREC, WASDA and Development Concern – implemented the Emergency Drought Response Action (EDRA) programme. This was a cash-based intervention using an innovative approach with communities previously developed and implemented by Horn Relief in the more secure north of the country. It also involved a cross-border dimension with Oxfam GB working through two Kenyan-Somali NGO partners.
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SDC Cash Workbook January 2007 Author: Egon Rauch and Helmut Scheuer The SDC Cash Workbook presented here is the result of experience and know-how gathered, accumulated, capitalised on and shared by the assessors, project managers, evaluators and desk officers involved. Its aim is to help improve and professionalize the planning and implementation of Cash Transfer Projects by providing tried-and-tested experience.
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Post-Tsunami Recovery and Reconstruction December 2006 Author: Report by the Government of Sri Lanka and the Development Partners This second year report documents the Sri Lankan experience of post Tsunami recovery and reconstruction in 2006. It presents a comprehensive analysis within the larger developments of the country that would have implications for achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The four thematic areas around which recovery and reconstruction activities were organized are - getting people back into homes, restoring livelihoods, health-education-protection and national infrastructure development. Cross cutting themes, such as environment, gender, legal aspects, disaster preparedness are also addressed. In addition, the report pays attention to capacity-building, decision making processes and coordination. Most importantly the views of a cross section of the affected people were also taken into account.
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In-kind and Cash Distribution Projects in 2003 in Zavkhan Aimag, Mongolia November 2006 Author: Joint SDC-IFRC External Review The main objective of this review was to obtain an external view of the quality of the in-kind distribution programme, implemented by IFRC/MRCS, and the Cash for Herder project, implemented by SDC. The evaluation also aimed at making a direct comparison of the two approaches with regard to appropriateness and with regard to the impact at household level to draw learning for future similar interventions. The evaluation undertaken did not seek to assess or to compare institutions or the whole of the IFRC/MRCS Dzud Emergency Relief Programme.
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An Evaluation of Concern worldwide's Food and Cash Transfers Project Malawi June 2006 Author: Stephen Devereux, Peter Mvula, Colette Solomon Concern Worldwide implemented its Food and Cash Transfers project (FACT) in three districts of central Malawi as a complementary humanitarian intervention during the food crisis of 2005/06. Though limited in scale and duration, FACT was highly innovative and generated a range of positive impacts. Drawing on FACT monitoring surveys and qualitative fieldwork conducted immediately after FACT ended, this evaluation report reviews the design, implementation and impacts of the project on households, communities and markets, and draws lessons for Concern Worlwide and for wider social protection debates in Malawi and beyond.
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Housing reconstruction in post-earthquake Gujarat March 2006 Author: Jennifer Duyne Barenstein - Commissioned and published by the Humanitarian Practice Network at ODI Besides human casualties, one of the most visible and striking effects of any major disaster is the destruction of houses. Loss of housing destroys livelihoods, protection and privacy. Effective housing reconstruction is essential to restore affected communities’ dignity, society, economy and cultural identity.
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Food and Cash Transfer Project Malawi February 2006 Author: Ernest Achtell This document, which covers the period of December 2005 (post donor approval, early planning stage) to February 2006 (mid point of implementation), has been produced to trace the evolution of Concern Worldwide Malawi’s Food and Cash Transfer (FACT) Project, including modifications to the original concept and important decisions affecting implementation.1 It is hoped that, in attempting to capture important decisions made during the early stages of what has been a new experience for all involved, this document will aid organisational learning and contribute to the project evaluation.
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Cash-Transfer Programming in Emergencies February 2006 Author: Edited by Pantaleo Creti and Susanne Jaspars The aim of this practical guide is to support the implementation of cash programmes in emergencies. It is based on the experience of Oxfam GB over five years (2000–2005) in a variety of disaster contexts. Oxfam GB (referred to from now on as ‘Oxfam’) has used cash interventions as part of its response to the needs of communities affected by droughts, floods, hurricanes, and cyclones, and the needs of displaced people and people experiencing chronic food insecurity as a result of protracted conflict and/or poverty. This guide makes extensive reference to responses to the tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean region in December 2004. Most of Oxfam’s experience relates to cash-for-work programmes, but in the past three years Oxfam staff have increasingly implemented cash grants and voucher programmes. Many other agencies are implementing cash programmes; when possible and appropriate, we have drawn on their materials to inform these guidelines. However, this book is mainly based on Oxfam’s experience.
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Social Cash Transfer in Development Cooperation September 2005 Author: Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit, Dr. Bernd Schubert (2005) The Millennium Development Goals have challenged the international community to redirect their attention towards poverty reduction. International experts and policy makers have provoked an international debate on social cash transfers and theirits contribution to halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by the year 2015. As the World Development Report 2004 states, cash transfer programmes can be a powerful way of promoting education, health, and nutritional outcomes. Many service delivery arrangements neglect the role of clients, especially poor clients. Demand-side cash transfers that can be flexibly used by poor families increase the purchasing power of the poor, thus contributing to pro-poor-growth. This publication discusses the rationale behind establishing social cash transfer programmes. It presents the costs and benefits arising from existing programmes, - in particular, the pilot cash transfer scheme in Kalomo District, Zambia, - and identifies preconditions for successful implementation.
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Cash relief in a contested area - Lessons from Somalia (Humanitarian Practise Network HPN Paper) March 2005 Author: Degan Ali, Fanta Toure and Tilleke Kiewied Commodities, rather than cash, remain the predominant form of emergency relief: relief agencies typically distribute food aid, seeds, tools and shelter materials; they rarely give people the cash with which to buy these things themselves. Supporters of cash responses in emergencies argue that they can be more cost-effective and timely than commodity distribution, give the recipients greater choice and dignity and benefit the economies into which they are injected. Sceptics argue that cash responses are often not practical, particularly in complex emergencies, where security risks and the risk of corruption are deemed unacceptable. Even where cash responses may be feasible, there are concerns that women may be excluded, and that the cash may be spent in unwelcome or anti-social ways. A sudden access of cash may increase inflation and depress local markets, and may encourage conflict in areas of instability.
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Cash & Vouchers in Emergencies February 2005 Author: Paul Harvey (2005) This discussion paper examines the use of cash and vouchers to provide people with assistance in emergency situations. The first product of an ongoing research project by the Humanitarian Policy group (HPG), it is based on a critical review of existing published and grey literature, initial discussions with aid agency staff and a survey of project documentation from recent and ongoing cash- and voucher-based responses.
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Cash for drought victims in Moldova / Video, 20 min. December 2004 «Cash for vulnerable villagers in Moldova» is a humanitarian aid project launched by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in the south western part of Republic of Moldova in 2004, following a drought which destroyed more than three-quarters of the grain harvest. The aim of the project is to provide quick and efficient cash relief for the worst affected rural population. This Film documents the various phases of the project and demonstrates the importance of properly distributed cash assistance as an effective form of humanitarian aid. |
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Cash transfers in emergencies: evaluating benefits and assessing risks June 2001 Author: David Peppiatt, John Mitchell and Penny Holzmann In terms of both theory and practice, there appears to be a strong case for cash-based responses to food emergencies where the supply and market conditions are appropriate. Amartya Sen’s work on entitlements offers a solid theoretical base for cash transfers, and the practical experience so far, limited though it is, provides evidence that direct cash distribution, in the right circumstances and with careful planning and monitoring, can be more timely, less costly and more empowering to local communities than traditional food distribution. Nevertheless, there appears to be a reluctance within the humanitarian relief system to include cashbased responses in emergency response portfolios. This paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of a cash-based approach to food emergencies, and presents case-studies of cash distribution. These examples, which are drawn from Africa, South Asia and the Balkans, highlight both the risks and the benefits of cash-based responses as against traditional food aid.
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