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HPG has established a strong record in carrying out large-scale and complex evaluations. These provide a valuable 'point of entry' for HPG's work in understanding and influencing humanitarian policy and practice. In turn, this ensures that the group's work is strongly rooted in field experience, and that the evaluation process is informed by research and other studies carried out by HPG.

HPG is particularly interested in evaluations of strategic significance to the sector, where there are opportunities for learning and effecting change.

Publications in this series

Final monitoring report of the Somalia cash and voucher transfer programme - Phase 2: April 2012-March 2013

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 June 2013

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Sophia Dunn, Mike Brewin and Aues Scek

This report presents the findings of Phase 2 of a monitoring exercise of a unique partnership, the Cash and Voucher Monitoring Group (CVMG), involving non-governmental organisations providing cash-based interventions in response to famine and humanitarian emergency in South Central Somalia. It was the first large-scale cash-based response to be implemented in Somalia, and – at a global level – the first non-governmental emergency cash-based programme on this scale.

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Paradoxes of presence: Risk management and aid culture in challenging environments

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 March 2013

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Sarah Collinson and Mark Duffield with Carol Berger, Diana Felix da Costa and Karl Sandstrom

This publication reflects on the increasing presence of humanitarian agencies in insecure environments and risk management – and the fundamental tension between ‘staying’ and ‘staying safe’. It argues for efforts to broaden and deepen the risk agenda beyond the immediate preoccupations of ostensibly manageable security risks, but which encompasses attention to the host of interconnected challenges and hazards involved.

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Tools for the job: Supporting principled humanitarian action

Publication - Research reports and studies - 10 October 2012

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Ingrid Macdonald and Angela Valenza

Despite high level donor commitments to the humanitarian principles, global humanitarian funding continues to favour politically strategic countries over neglected or protracted crises. This report looks beyond the rhetoric and makes concrete recommendations to make humanitarian funding more principled and effective.

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Final monitoring report of the Somalia cash and voucher transfer programme - Phase 1: September 2011–March 2012

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 August 2012

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Catherine Longley, Sophia Dunn and Mike Brewin

This report presents the findings of Phase 1 of a monitoring exercise of a unique partnership involving 14 non-governmental organisations providing cash-based interventions in response to famine and humanitarian emergency in South Central Somalia. It was the first large-scale cash-based response to be implemented in Somalia, and – at a global level – the first non-governmental emergency cash-based programme on this scale

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The impact of cash transfers on nutrition in emergency and transitional contexts

Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 January 2012

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Sarah Bailey and Kerren Hedlund

Cash transfer programming is now widely accepted as a way to meet a variety of needs in humanitarian and transitional settings. Although the literature on cash transfers has grown exponentially over the last few years, as has their use in humanitarian interventions, the relationship between cash transfer interventions in crisis contexts and malnutrition has received little attention. This is surprising given that many cash transfers have nutritional objectives, such as improving access to an adequate quantity and quality of food. Nutrition, food security and health actors all could consider cash transfers as a way of addressing the multiple causes of malnutrition. The purpose of this paper is to explore evidence on the nutritional impact of cash transfers in emergency and transitional settings. It has been commissioned by the German government (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ) through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

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