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   Rethinking cash transfers to promote maternal health: good practice from developing countries

   Publication - Discussion papers - 30 November 2011

   ODI Background Notes

   Nicola Jones, Fiona Samuels, Laura Gisby and Elizabeth Presler-Marshall

   This Background Note reviews the evidence on conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to promote safe motherhood – a concept that spans not only care during pregnancy and childbirth, but access to family planning and equitable health services – comparing them to other approaches to maternal health programming in developing countries.

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   The potential for cash transfers in Nigeria

   Publication - Briefing papers - 30 September 2011

   ODI Project Briefings 60

   Rebecca Holmes, Michael Samson, Wendy Magoronga and Banke Akinrimisi with Jenny Morgan

   This Project Briefing examines the role, appropriateness and feasibility of cash transfers in the Nigerian context. The briefing draws on a desk-based review of secondary literature on social protection policy and programming in Nigeria, as well as primary research conducted in Abuja and in Adamawa, Benue, Edo and Lagos states.

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3. Food assistance for vulnerable households in South Central Somalia: monitoring and evaluation consultancy

   Projects - August 2011 to September 2012

   This project seeks to monitor the effectiveness of cash and food voucher projects implemented at scale and to determine the impacts on local markets and beneficiary households.

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4. Cash transfer programming in emergencies - a new Good Practice Review

   Event - 8 July 2011 14:00 - 16:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

   This event launches Good Practice Review (GPR) 11 ‘Cash transfer programming in emergencies’, published by the Humanitarian Practice Network in partnership with the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), with support from the European Commission Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO), through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

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5. Cash transfer programming in emergencies

   Publication - Books or book chapters - 16 June 2011

   HPN Good Practice Reviews

   Paul Harvey, Sarah Bailey

   One of the more exciting innovations in the response to humanitarian crises of recent years has been the use of cash. This Good Practice Review by Paul Harvey and Sarah Bailey synthesises cash transfer guidelines, highlights lessons from evaluations and adds practical examples drawn from experience in the field.

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   Gendered risks, poverty and vulnerability in Ghana: is the LEAP cash transfer programme making a difference?

   Publication - Briefing papers - 11 November 2010

   ODI Project Briefings 52

   Christiana Gbedemah, Nicola Jones and Paola Pereznieto

   This project briefing explores linkages between gender and social protection effectiveness, with a focus on Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) cash transfer programme.

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   An independent evaluation of Concern Worldwide's emergency response in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: Responding to displacement with vouchers and fairs.

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 7 October 2009

   HPG Commissioned Reports

   Sarah Bailey

   This report provides an in-depth look at the use of vouchers and fairs rather than distributing non-food items by Concern in response to the unfolding crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2009.

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   Cash transfers in emergencies: a synthesis of World Vision's experience and learning

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 18 August 2009

   HPG Commissioned Reports

   Sarah Bailey, Kevin Savage, Sorcha O’Callaghan

   This report examines the use of cash transfers during crises by World Vision and other humanitarian aid agencies.

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   Cash transfers, gender and generational relations: evidence from a pilot project in Lesotho

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 4 May 2008

   HPG Commissioned Reports

   Rachel Slater and Matšeliso Mphale

   Drawing on the findings of fieldwork with cash, food, cash and food beneficiaries and nonbeneficiaries, this paper uses a comparative approach to explore the impact of cash transfers on gender relations.

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    Cash transfers for Disaster Risk Reduction in Niger: a feasibility study

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 February 2008

    HPG Commissioned Reports

    Sarah Bailey

    This report is the result of a study examining whether cash transfer programmes would be appropriate, cost-effective and feasible and whether, as part of a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategy, they could have positive impacts on people’s livelihoods that would reduce their risk to future disasters.

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