Welcome to the webinar! ARE CASH TRANSFERS TRANSFORMING HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE? FIELD PERSPECTIVES. FUTURE DIRECTION? Make sure you are connected to the audio: Click on the box with the headphones icon for “Call Using Computer”. If you don’t immediately see the Audio Connection box in front of you, go to the Quick Start tab and find it there. If your computer audio is not working during the event, you can also listen by phone instead. Dial +1-650-429-3300 or find the global call-in number for your location at: www.humanitarianresponse.info/system/files/documents/files/Webex%20Global%20call-in%20numbers.pdf Access code: 648 610 220 In case you are unable to connect to the event, a non-interactive live stream is available as a back-up at www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRBHrZ_5z5k All webinar recordings are available on the website: www.humanitarianresponse.info/topics/transformative-agenda First webinar will start at 07:30 UTC (13:15 Kathmandu / 09:30 Geneva / 08:30 London) Second webinar will start at 12:30 UTC (18:15 Kathmandu / 14:30 Geneva / 13:30 London)

Speakers Facilitator Rosie Jackson Jamie McGoldrick Rita Dhakal Technical Advisor, CaLP Jamie McGoldrick Humanitarian Coordinator, Nepal Rita Dhakal Regional Head, Humanitarian Response, DanChurchAid Peter McGeachie Regional Director (South Asia), Help Age International Tim Waites Snr. Livelihoods and Disaster Resilience Adviser, DFID Facilitator Panos Moumtzis Director, IASC Senior Transformative Agenda Implementation Team (STAIT)

WHO IS CaLP? Cash Learning Partnership Global partnership of humanitarian actors on policy, practice and research on cash transfer programming. 150 organisations and 5,000 individuals in the community of practice. Presentation by Rosie Jackson, Technical Advisor, CaLP

What is cash transfer programming? “Cash and voucher transfers are used to meet basic food and non-food needs or to purchase assets enabling people to resume economic activity.” Sphere standards, 2011 Cash the basics A definition of cash transfers Cash modalities – cash and vouchers Cash delivery mechanisms – cash in hand to bank transfers New technologies – mobile money, e cards, e payments etc “Cash transfers from governments or non-governmental organizations given without conditions attached to individuals or households identified as highly vulnerable, with the objective of alleviating poverty, providing social protection, or reducing economic vulnerability” UNCONDITIONAL CTP – CaLP Level 1 “Multi-purpose cash transfers can be defined as a transfer (either regular or one-off) corresponding to the amount of money a household needs to cover, fully or partially, their basic needs that the local market and available services are able to meet appropriately and effectively.” – MULTI-PURPOSE CTP ECHO proposed definition

CASH ASSISTANCE MODALITIES AND INTERVENTIONS

CASH FOR WORK / TRAINING/ ASSETS Cash-based interventions COMMODITY VOUCHER PAPER VOUCHER DIRECT CASH CASH TRANSFER VOUCHER VALUE VOUCHER E-VOUCHER E-TRANSFER PREREQUISITES UNCONDITIONAL UNRESTRICTED UTILIZATION CASH FOR WORK / TRAINING/ ASSETS CONDITIONAL RESTRICTED MINIMUM EXPENDITURE BASKET (MEB) / SURVIVAL MINIMUM EXPENDITURE BASKET (SMEB) MULTIPURPOSE OBJECTIVE(S) MULTISECTOR SECTORAL

THE PROS AND CONS OF CASH ASSISTANCE

CTP - making the right decisions Insecurity Fraud/diversion Dependency HH conflict Community conflict Abuse of assistance Exclusion Security Accountability to donors Self-reliance and dignity Shared decision-making Economic integration Choice Inclusion

HOW CASH FITS INTO THE HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMME CYCLE

CTP – making the right decisions Market assessment Needs and Vulnerability Analysis In-kind, cash or vouchers Delivery Information management M&E Linkages Needs & Vulnerability Analysis Markets Financial Service Providers & delivery agents New Technology & Partnerships Internal systems & procedures Linkages with other programmes & local governance systems BEING CASH READY Analysing need? Multi sector needs assessment and response analysis Multi-sector market analysis If I use cash will my sector objective be met? Analysing feasibility What do recipient think / prefer? Is there a reliable / safe mechanism for delivery? Is it cost efficent and cost effective? Should we do cash? Is it appropriate? Do people need cash? Do people want cash? How does cash assistance fit in with ongoing or planned activities? If I give cash for my sector objective will people use it for that? Understanding prioritization…   Can we do cash? Is it safe? Is it feasible? Can we account for the spend

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Regional Head of Humanitarian Response, DanChurchAid RITA DHAKAL Regional Head of Humanitarian Response, DanChurchAid Representative of the INGOs as Coordinator of the Disaster Management Group

STAIT Webinar Are Cash Transfers Transforming Humanitarian Assistance? 8th October 2015 Tim Waites, Snr. Livelihoods and Disaster Resilience Adviser, DFID, CHASE

STAIT Webinar Are Cash Transfers Transforming Humanitarian Assistance? DFID-FUNDED REPORT High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers MAIN ISSUES, FINDINGS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS Tim Waites, Snr. Livelihoods and Disaster Resilience Adviser, DFID, CHASE

High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers: ISSUES, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS We know cash assistance works and in most contexts is preferred, cheaper and puts people at the centre of a response What are the blocks and what are the opportunities? Is it political; institutional; agency mandates; cash in the cluster system; links (or lack of) between actors & culture? How can the system can better support cash, and how cash can promote flexibility and accountability to beneficiaries And how can the delivery of cash be transformed?

‘Doing Cash Differently’ report: RECOMMENDATIONS More Cash: And multi-sector cash. ‘Why not cash’ and ‘If not now, when’ Cash in preparedness and contingency planning More efficient cash using locally accountable systems: Distinguish cash from vouchers and measure how much to beneficiaries – transparency and accountability Link with development processes and Social Protection systems Use more private sector to deliver – no reinventing wheels Use digital cash for financial inclusion

‘Doing Cash Differently’: RECOMMENDATIONS More efficient cash cont.……… Improve data security, privacy and compliance Improve coordination and alignment in existing system Large scale, coherent and competitive for economies of scale Different funding for system transformation: Where appropriate cash is central to humanitarian response and SRPs, complemented by in-kind if necessary Finance delivery of cash separate to assessment, targeting M&E and protection and open it to the market

STAIT Webinar Are Cash Transfers Transforming Humanitarian Assistance? MOVING FORWARD AND BUILDING MOMENTUM Tim Waites, Snr. Livelihoods and Disaster Resilience Adviser, DFID, CHASE

After ‘Doing Cash Differently’: MOVING FORWARD – BUILDING MOMENTUM Build support and momentum: Reports, panel events, consultations, World Humanitarian Summit Build the donor narrative and alignment Working with private sector, innovators and in-country governments Taking it forward: WHS, political champions….

STRENGTHENING HUMANITARIAN PREPAREDNESS: HIGH RISK COUNTRIES $60 million to enhance emergency preparedness action To boost WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR and OCHA’s existing preparedness mechanisms in high risk countries: Increase responsiveness Improve capability Improve capacity Improve the evidence base All UNICEF and WFP preparedeness investments examined in Chad, Madagascar and Pakistan saved significant time and/or costs Agency capacity and prioritisation of cash considered vis a vis other forms of assistance

STAIT Webinar Are Cash Transfers Transforming Humanitarian Assistance? KEY MESSAGE FROM THE DONORS: WHAT IS EXPECTED IN THE FIELD Tim Waites, Snr. Livelihoods and Disaster Resilience Adviser, DFID, CHASE

KEY MESSAGE FROM THE DONORS: WHAT IS EXPECTED IN THE FIELD Cash is not a panacea but, where it is appropriate, the evidence is in place for a radical scale-up (30, 40, 50%?) with in-kind and vouchers filling the gaps So we will ask ‘why not cash?’ and ‘if not now, when?’ What needs to change to deliver this ambition?: More political leadership & culture change in the humanitarian system? More private sector and innovation in delivering cash (‘pipes’)? More focus on market response, using local systems for delivery and government leadership? Moving from a humanitarian system to a broader eco-system? Focus on more and better donor coordination and alignment