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ABSTRACT Shocks can pressure families into negative coping strategies with significant drawbacks for children’s lives and development, particularly for children living in disadvantaged households who are at greater risk of falling into a poverty trap. This paper…

BACKGROUND Kenya is experiencing its worst locust infestation in decades following the invasion by desert locusts in its arid and semi arid lands (ASAL) counties in December 2019. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the…

MOMBASA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in partnership with national and local government today launched cash transfers for 24,000 families whose livelihoods were destroyed by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on informal…

Objective: To increase immediate food access, while protecting, restoring and enhancing household food production. Key partners: Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Climate Change (Puntland), Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation Development (Somaliland), Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Hirshabele), Ministry of…

Introduction Cash-based interventions have been used by humanitarian organizations in Somalia since 2003. Initially, significant variations in transfer values were implemented by different organizations, occasionally leading to different transfer values in the same locations. It was against…

MASERU – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes the European Union’s (EU) contribution of €2.8 million (M55.5 million) to provide much needed relief assistance to the most vulnerable people in Lesotho affected by three…

Background: in continuation of on the efforts undertaken by the Ethiopian Red Cross (ERC) consortium in 2019, alongside the Ethiopian CWG, in order to improve capacity, coordination and evidence of cash programming, the ECWG would like to…

Executive Summary This Guidance Note aims to walk readers through the steps that were taken to calculate the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) for the Somali region. A MEB defines what a household requires in order to meet…

I. Background, Most of humanitarian agencies are using different beneficiary selection criteria for different intervention. However, harmonized beneficiary selection criteria would be appropriate to increase impact and reach of multiple beneficiaries. As per the DL joint assessment finding…