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Letter to Barclays Bank - "No winners from the closure of Barclays’ Somali accounts"
Kevin Watkins, the Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute has called on Barclays Bank to reconsider its decision to close its Somalia accounts, describing the move as 'unwarranted, unnecessary and a threat to some of the world's most vulnerable people’.He cites new research from the Humanitarian Policy Group in ODI on a major cash transfer programme introduced in response to the Horn of Africa famine.
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Final monitoring report of the Somalia cash and voucher transfer programme - Phase 2: April 2012-March 2013
Sophia Dunn, Mike Brewin and Aues ScekThis 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. -
Development of operational guidance and SOPs for cash-based interventions
This project seeks to develop multi-sectoral, operational guidance for UNHCR on setting up and achieving protection and assistance goals through cash-based interventions in displacement settings. It also seeks to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for UNHCR for cash-based interventions. -
Final monitoring report of the Somalia cash and voucher transfer programme - Phase 1: September 2011–March 2012
Catherine Longley, Sophia Dunn and Mike BrewinThis 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 -
Cash Transfer Programming in emergencies
As Cyprus takes over the presidency of the council of the European Union, the council held a workshop on cash transfer programming in emergencies. Sarah Bailey presented an HPG report: The impact of cash transfers on nutrition in emergency and transitional contexts.
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Cash transfer recipient in Cambodia
Helpage cash transfer programme to support older people in Cambodia
License: Creative Commons
Credit: Mayur Paul/ HelpAge International 2012
Source: FlickrBigger, better, faster: New learning in cash transfer programming
This event launches Issue 54 of the Humanitarian Exchange magazine from the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN), on the theme New Learning in Cash Transfer Programming. Speakers in London and Nairobi, drawing on their own experience and analysis, will discuss a wide range of new learning and issues associated with cash transfer programming highlighted in Issue 54 including scaling up, improving response analysis,and overcoming internal barriers to institutionalizing cash programming.
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Safer motherhood for all: innovative social protection mechanisms and their contribution to MDG5 and beyond
Social protection approaches – in particular conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) – provide popular tools to improve health and educational outcomes for children across the developing world, and are increasingly being piloted to address challenges of safe motherhood. Opinions abound as to the effectiveness of CCTs and their capacity for long-term social transformation is rightly up for discussion.
To mark International Women’s Day, ODI is bringing together a panel of scholars and practitioners to explore the social protection innovations increasingly being employed to tackle maternal ill-health, and to consider how to take such interventions to scale.
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The impact of cash transfers on nutrition in emergency and transitional contexts
Sarah Bailey and Kerren HedlundCash 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). -
Cash and risk in humanitarian operations
This conference will bring together humanitarian organizations, relevant research institutes and donors to discuss different organizational perspectives on cash transfer interventions as a tool in humanitarian operations. HPG’s Sarah Bailey, co-author of GPR 11: Cash transfer programming in emergencies, will facilitate the event over two days.