Enabling Interventions and Approaches

Across humanitarian action, there are established best practices to ensure programs clearly address children’s protection concerns and mitigate the risk of increased tensions or conflict. Much of this relies on the application of a variety of ‘lenses’ to analysis, monitoring and evaluation to ensure stakeholders have a deeper understanding of tensions, potential challenges, and opportunities to provide context-specific, relevant support to children and the programs meant to support them.

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The Global Education Cluster (GEC) has been working to build the evidence base around cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in education in emergencies (EiE), resulting in the publication of the “Cash and Voucher Assistance for Education in Emergencies Synthesis Report and Guidelines” in 2019. This...
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In recent years, cash transfer programming (CTP) has significantly increased as a proportion of humanitarian assistance. In the right circumstances, CTP can facilitate better use of scarce resources, stimulate local economies to assist recovery, and respect the dignity of people in crisis. While...
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The increased use of cash-based transfers over the past decade has brought opportunities for efficiency gains in humanitarian aid, greater choice and flexibility for people receiving assistance and increased transparency, while providing an opportunity to support local economies. Pledges to further...