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ARE CASH TRANSFERS TRANSFORMING HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE? FIELD PERSPECTIVES. FUTURE DIRECTION?
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2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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

5. CASH ASSISTANCE MODALITIES AND INTERVENTIONS

6. 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

7. THE PROS AND CONS OF CASH ASSISTANCE

8. 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

9. HOW CASH FITS INTO THE HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMME CYCLE

10. 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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22. 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

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

24. 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

25. 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?

26. ‘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

27. ‘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

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

29. 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….

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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