The conference happened on 28th and 29th September 2017 in Brussels. The programme was organised around two themes, namely: Effective social protection in fragile contexts; The needs of forcibly displaced populations and host communities, and the role of...
The objective of this webinar was to provide a practical example of the processes and partnerships required to support the transition of caseloads from humanitarian cash interventions to government social assistance programmes in situations of protracted...
Organiser: United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC, United Kingdom - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO
This case study aims to contextualize cash assistance in a protracted humanitarian crisis like Iraq and how it can be used to transition to social protection in the long run. Humanitarian aid in the country is likely to continue to meet the needs of the...
This brief provides a few examples of how Oxfam and partners have designed and adapted Cash and Voucher (CVA) initiatives in response to the COVID-19 crisis. These illustrate positive shifts occurring in the delivery of humanitarian assistance and will...
Since the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, progress has been made towards more locally led humanitarian action, catalysed by the Grand Bargain commitments and pressure from grassroots networks such as Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR) and...
This case study aims to contextualize cash assistance in a protracted humanitarian crisis like Iraq and how it can be used to transition to social protection in the long run. Humanitarian aid in the country is likely to continue to meet the needs of the...
This piece of research looked at six case studies in the MENA region where CVA is being delivered at scale. It looked at the characteristics of the operational models of delivering multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA), and how that enables (or not) links...
Iraq’s humanitarian crisis remains at alarming levels as years of conflict has left millions at risk of food insecurity. As the violence continues to force people to abandon their farms and agriculture-based livelihoods, the Food and Agriculture...
This literature review aims to explore the evidence on the effects of social assistance on gender, familial, and household relations and power dynamics among refugees and (internally) displaced populations in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. It examines...
Institutions and agencies involved: Better Assistance in Crises Research, BASIC
Addressing inflation-related food insecurity is a global priority, but how are social protection systems responding to the crisis? Our updated tracker (v.2) includes data on 376 social protection responses across 121 economies ! Subsidies claim 61% of...