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Executive Summary Cash Transfers (CTs) provided an effective means of supporting men and women to meet their basic needs in an emergency. CTs assisted men and women to meet their practical needs, giving men a sense of…

Cash transfers can offer value-for-money in humanitarian responses, and cash transfer programming (CTP) has the potential to transform humanitarian architecture. While this type of assistance is established — in 2015 the EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Persons of Concern (POC)—including asylum seekers, refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees—are forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, natural disasters and climate change. One of the most vulnerable groups in the world, their…

Global Highlights During Q2-2016, FAO’s global cereal price index fell by 6 percent year-on-year but it is 3 percent up compared to Q1-2016. The increase is because of rising maize and rice prices. The FAO global food…

Providing assistance to crisis-affected populations in insecure environments is no easy task. Roger Dean, lead of the Remote Cash Project, answers questions about how cash transfers can be used as an effective modality of response in…

Erik Johnson and Paula Gil Baizan Erik Johnson is humanitarian chief for DanChurchAid. Paula Gil Baizan is advocacy head for the Cash Learning Partnership The evidence is clear: cash works better. In study after study, survivors of conflict…

Around 1,000 women market vendors — farmers who were adversely affected by Tropical Cyclone Winston — have received agriculture supplies that will help in their efforts to replant their crops. The produce will eventually be sold…

Overview In the last 20 years direct payments to recipients have emerged as an effective way to deliver aid to vulnerable people. Evidence from 200 studies shows that direct cash transfers (CTs) have a strong impact on…

Over 60 million people are currently displaced due to conflict or violence, and about 140 million are exposed to natural disasters. As part of humanitarian responses to those affected populations, growing attention is paid to cash…