Rapports

By Deli Oso, Press Secretary to the Prime Minister Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare today received nearly half a million dollars in total from a former Vanuatu Prime Minister and a retired Australian Army General to assist the relief operation for the…

JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2007 (IRIN) - Le Programme alimentaire mondial vient de publier un document sur le débat actuel « nourriture ou argent » comme meilleur moyen de venir en aide aux populations, document dans lequel l'auteur, Ugo Gentilini,…

JOHANNESBURG, 8 March 2007 (IRIN) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has published a paper in the ongoing 'food vs cash transfers' debate on the best method of dispensing aid, in which author Ugo Gentilini suggests an…

People affected by disasters may need external assistance in order to survive and recover. To the extent that this involves transfers to individuals, this assistance can either be provided in-kind, in the form of food aid, shelter materials, seeds…

This report by the Tsunami Cash Learning Project follows an earlier piece of HPG research by Paul Harvey on emergency cash transfers. It set out to record the experiences of agencies implementing cash-based interventions, and their results, and to…

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 context-specific approach. A key message is…

WFP has a strong interest in building a comprehensive understanding of these technical and operational issues, given the increasing importance of cash transfers in relief and development contexts, especially as a potential complement to food aid. To help shed light…

Shelter responses after disasters have tended to focus on providing temporary shelter in camps, and then assisting in the rebuilding of permanent housing. Predominantly, this support is given in the form of inkind aid: governments or aid agencies supply…

The tsunami had a devastating impact on livelihoods. The majority of aid provided to help people to recover and rebuild their livelihoods was in-kind. Some types of livelihoods were open to a simple in-kind response; fishermen, for instance, could…

In providing any sort of assistance, humanitarian actors need to analyse the markets for key goods to see how the disaster has affected them. This is as necessary or food aid, shelter or seed provision as it is for…