The SDC Cash Workbook

Aim

The aim of the Cash Workbook is to make field-tested experience available. It may be used to implement high-quality Cash Transfer Projects in the broad spectrum of humanitarian contexts.

This new and fully revised edition is designed as a web-based publication. The Cash Workbook is divided into 2 elements:

1. Content of the Cash Workbook
2. Toolbox to the Cash Workbook

Emphasis is placed on professional project cycle management (PCM). Moreover, this Cash Workbook contains elements which may be helpful in a wider scope of project management issues that go beyond Cash Transfer Projects.

Audience

The Cash Workbook is addressed to practitioners, be they desk officers at HQ or project managers in the field. It is meant to be a useful guide for beginners as well as for senior staff working on Cash Transfer Projects.

Knowledge Management Cycle

Experience and know-how are among the most valuable goods that institutions or organisations have at their disposal. On the one hand, they are located among a highly qualified staff (implicit knowledge). On the other hand, to make sure that experience and know-how are anchored in the institution, they must be shared (explicit knowledge).

For SDC it has become a priority to assure that new experience and know-how are documented, updated, shared and used. This commitment is guided by the following principles:

The application of tested standards increases the professionalism of interventions.

Knowledge management requires additional personnel and financial resources.

The quality of knowledge management instruments is largely dependent on how well they are used and how frequently they are updated.

Therefore the Cash Workbook is part of a knowledge management cycle, which is described in more detail below.