Reports

VIENNA, July 2, 2017 – Ground Truth Solutions and the Cash Learning Partnership, announced the launch of the Cash Barometer, a unique and practical informational tool to assist the international community in the delivery of humanitarian…

Every year, architects of humanitarian policy gather in Geneva at the UN for a week of high-level debate. At the end of last month, this ECOSOC forum heard a “glass half full” message on reform. But…

Background: In the run up to the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), research confirmed that while aid organizations are starting to give more cash and vouchers, they account for only about 6% of humanitarian aid. However, CTP efficiency to…

by Julia Steets, Lotte Ruppert Background As more agencies are using cash transfer programs in humanitarian contexts, the need for coordination has grown. Currently, the cash working groups established by aid organizations in emergency settings vary in their…

Within the context of children’s wellbeing, CTP are a popular means of giving poor people additional financial resources enabling them to invest in their children’s future: the idea is to help families meet their children’s critical…

The Tripartite Technical Meeting on the Access of Refugees and other Forcibly Displaced Persons to the Labour Market, Having met in Geneva from 5 to 7 July 2016, Responding to the decision taken by the Governing Body at…

(6 June 2017) A new UNICEF Innocenti Working Paper, Mythbusting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers in Africa, summarizes evidence on six common assumptions about cash transfer programmes in Africa. The paper uses data…

Silver bullet or emperor’s new clothes? Start Fund MEAL Manager, David Jones, discusses the rising demand for cash programming and how it has featured in Start Fund responses There is something anomalous within the 10 elements of the…

by Sophie Hares | @SophieHares | Thomson Reuters Foundation Friday, 26 May 2017 08:25 GMT "But the underlying issue is the money - our public resources are not sufficient to address these climatic issues" By Sophie Hares CANCUN, Mexico, May…

Michael Clemens and Jennifer Hunt An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives’ wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about…