Rapports

Executive Summary The use of direct cash payments to support communities impacted by crisis is becoming increasingly commonplace as a response to humanitarian situations – and with good reason. Cash can often be faster and more cost-efficient…

This report on a CARE workshop on our work on resilient market systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region provides key discussion points as well as CARE’s emerging thinking as a result of…

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 first quarter of 2016 (January to March).1 The maps on…

Summary As the number, scale and duration of humanitarian crises increase, the provision of cash to affected people and communities presents a number of opportunities for more effective and efficient programming. The means by which such opportunities…

Executive summary Upon request of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Principals, the World Bank Group agreed to lead a process of reviewing key issues and options for significantly scaling up the use of cash transfers in the…

By Laurie Goering DHAKA, April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When residents of the low-lying Del Rosario slum settlement in Valenzuela City in the Philippines noticed floodwater was lapping half a finger's length higher up their homes…

Executive Summary Background Humanitarian actors have a responsibility to ensure that assistance is provided in a way that minimizes risks and maximizes benefits to people affected by crisis. However, there are many challenges in evaluating ‘what works’ in…

Over the past five years, cash transfer programming has become an increasingly popular modality of humanitarian intervention. Recently, unconditional and unrestricted MPGs have been increasingly championed as a default modality, based on evidence collected by organisations…

This capacity statement explores the ability of Plan International to implement cash transfer programming in response to humanitarian disasters and conflicts. Cash and voucher transfers are quick to deliver, cost-effective and provide people in need with greater…

SUVA – Fiji’s Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation (MWCPA), the Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management (MRMDNDM), along with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today signed a Letter…