1. Shelter and Cash Transfer Programming 10 October, 2014

2. The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) The CaLP believes that cash transfers and vouchers are tools that can contribute to making humanitarian preparedness and response more effective at meeting the diverse needs of affected people, while promoting recovery. The CaLP aims to promote appropriate, timely and quality cash transfer programming

3. Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) is a Tool... Can be used on their own, or in combination, to meet basic needs and/or to protect, establish or re-establish livelihoods... when analyses confirm their appropriateness....for meeting needs and programme objectives, but with significant change potential.

4. Why cash as a response option? Numerous benefits of well- designed and implemented cash-based intervention Dignity and empowerment Response-recovery linkage Access Flexibility As with other modalities, risks need to be understood and appropriately managed

5. Shelter Responses using CTP: The Cash Atlas SDC experience etc..... Cash Atlas Screen Shot of Cash and Shelter Programmes

6. Barriers to CTP in Shelter Responses: Practitioner Perspective Lack of cash delivery infrastructure Knowledge / practical experience of market analysis Government resistance to Shelter CTP Risk of diversion

7. Shelter and CTP Enablers and Opportunities: A Few Examples EXTERNAL Active and Accessible Markets Effective and Active Payment Agents INTERNAL Experience from previous projects Technical capacity at country level

8. Thank you!