Cash Transfer Programming: taking stock and looking ahead

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When:
February 1, 2018 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm UTC Timezone
2018-02-01T14:00:00+00:00
2018-02-01T15:30:00+00:00
Where:
Overseas Development Institute
203 Blackfriars Rd
London SE1 8NL
UK
Cash Transfer Programming: taking stock and looking ahead @ Overseas Development Institute | England | United Kingdom

Contributing chair:

David Peppiatt @DPeppiattBRC – Director of Humanitarian Cash Assistance, British Red Cross

Speakers:

Alex Jacobs @AlexJacobs16 – Director, The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP)

Fiona Samuels @FionaAmalia – Senior Research Fellow, ODI

Dr Danielle Mutone-Smith @DMutoneSmith – Chief, Policy, Partnerships & Communications at Office of Food for Peace, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Matthew Wyatt – Head of Conflict Humanitarian and Security Department, UK Department for International Development (DFID)

Description

In recent years, Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) has emerged as one of the most significant innovations in international humanitarian assistance. By 2015, two billion dollars was spent on cash and vouchers and the global trend is increasing. The benefits of CTP have been shown to cut across multiple sectors to address women’s empowerment, food security, emissions reduction, education and healthcare. While CTP is widely recognised to be an essential tool to enhance humanitarian response, it is not a silver bullet or panacea.

Join us as we launch the Cash Learning Partnership’s new State of the World’s Cash report. The paper takes stock of the progress made by the humanitarian sector in using CTP, analyses the successes and obstacles and identifies the essential next steps required to accelerate progress in the coming years.

Building on ODI’s work with the High Level Panel of Humanitarian Cash Transfers and subsequent ODI research which used case studies in Iraq, Ukraine, Nepal, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo, this event asks: What is the current state of cash-transfer programming in emergencies?  What further changes are necessary to increase the scale and improve the quality of cash transfer programming to maximise the benefits for affected people? What are the implications of these changes for the role and functions of donors, implementing agencies, coordinating bodies, host governments and the private sector?

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