Reports

This case study documents how community engagement and accountability approaches were integrated into the emergency phase of a pilot cash based intervention programme in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo in 2017, and the benefits this had for the…

In the first half of 2018, 37,188 refugees had been supported with cash for the purchase of laundry soap and kitchen sets and 12,000 women for dignity kits through Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) in Jijiga. 400 improved…

1. Context Since April 2018, insecurity and localised conflict between communities in Gedeo Zone (Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region– SNNPR) and West Guji Zone (Oromia Region) led to a rapid displacement of 960,000 people (IOM Displacement…

Report by Mary Karanja, Senior CBI officer, UNHCR Ethiopia - September 2018 Overview of results – Executive summary Background UNHCR piloted a cash based intervention in Jijiga (Awbarre, Kebribeyah and Shedder) in the second quarter of 2018 with two…

Core Issue: Temporary suspension of the implementation of humanitarian CBIs to IDPs in West Guji settlement sites by NDRMC-led Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Bule Hora and shared through the Bule Hora coordination forums during the week…

Ruqiya lives in a small village of Aray settlement of Somalia. She is married and has 5 children depending on her for survival. Before the 2017-2018 drought struck, she lived in Burhakaba town with her family…

Background The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) workstream is a subgroup of the Somalia Cash Working Group (CWG) which is composed of partner agencies’ mainly M&E experts or programme technical staff with M&E functions. The core mandate of…

Background Cash Based Assistance (CBA) has been used by humanitarian organisations in Somalia to assist people in need since 2003. After several years of poor rainfall, the humanitarian community responded to a famine alert issued in January…

Aiming at strengthening resilience of conflict-affected communities, IOM has employed various community-led Cash-based Interventions (CBIs) in Abyei (construction of resilient shelters), Bentiu (fuel-efficient stoves) and Wau Protection of Civilians (PoC) site (shelter upgrade). Through active engagement…

As cash transfer programmes increasingly become a standard component of humanitarian responses, aid agencies and donors seek a more comprehensive understanding of delivery mechanisms that are effective, efficient, and offer good value for money, while meeting…