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By Kate Hooper, Maria Vincenza Desiderio, and Brian Salant Cities have played a significant role in addressing Europe’s migration crisis, including by helping migrants and refugees integrate successfully into the local labor market. Cities provide a wide…

Alexandra Spencer, Chloe Parrish and Charlotte Lattimer Key messages Data from aid agencies suggests that, in 2015, at least $1.9 billion was spent on humanitarian assistance in the form of cash-based responses (51% cash and 49% vouchers). There is…

GA/11887 2 FEBRUARY 2017 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PLENARY SEVENTY-FIRST SESSION, 69TH MEETING (AM) Texts on oceans conference, disaster risk reduction among other items passed The General Assembly reaffirmed its strong commitment today to the Kimberley Process and its certification scheme, an international…

This bulletin examines trends in staple food and fuel prices, the cost of the basic food basket and consumer price indices for 71 countries in the fourth quarter of 2016 (October to December).1 The maps on…

ICAI examined how well the Department for International Development (DFID) used cash transfer programmes to reduce poverty and vulnerability. The review found that the transfers – which include any regular payments made to individuals or households –…

CaLP is leading a process to aggregate and analyse the key commitments and recommendations from the major global processes undertaken recently, including the the Grand Bargain, ECHO’s 10 principles on cash, the High Level Panel on…

A. Introduction The gFSC aims to contribute actively to provide guidance and tools for national food security clusters to adequately coordinate cash interventions among cluster/sector partners and to ensure equally and consistently consideration of cash alongside other…

By Georgina Sturge Senior Research Officer on the Social Protection programme at the Overseas Development Institute in London LONDON, 6 January 2017 Recent months have seen a proliferation of media reports attacking the UK aid programme – the latest…

3rd January 2017 London, United Kingdom - As the global partnership for cash transfer programming in humanitarian aid, the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) takes issue with recent criticisms of cash transfers made by Nigel Evans MP and…

Question What experience is there globally of civil society organisations providing / supporting accountability mechanisms in cash transfer programmes, at national scale? Summary Cash transfer programmes, like most social protection programmes, are vulnerable to fraud, errors, corruption and misuse…