Cash in conflict
Cash is used by people to pay for goods and services all around the world. This fact does not change in situations of armed conflict, when having cash in their hands can mean the difference between life and death.
Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) has several significant benefits that are well known, including increasing people’s dignity, power, autonomy and choice in how they manage their survival and recovery. CTP can also offer greater operational flexibility and achieve wider social and economic multiplier effects beyond its specific purpose.
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The ICRC – who have 16,800 staff in over 80 countries, helping people affected by armed conflict and violence – is enthusiastic about the benefits of CTP and realistic about when it is best to use it. Our experience and evidence shows that cash is an essential tool in humanitarian action in armed conflict, and our own operational analysis confirms many of the positive findings from other policy and academic studies.
This section of the Cash Hub aims to share the experience of the ICRC and of those Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies working in countries affected by conflict and other situations of violence.
Read the latest report on "Cash Transfer Programming in Armed Conflict: The ICRC’s Experience", to find out about the ICRC’s experience of using CTP in armed conflict.
01 Feb 2020
Addressing Humanitarian Needs and Building Community Resilience in Rakhine State
Type: Case study
Organisation: Myanmar Red Cross Society, IFRC
Overview of the Myanmar Red Cross Society’s (MRCS) programmes supported by IFRC in Rakhine. MRCS has been offering assistance to communities in Rakhine since 2012, initially targeting Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Multi-year programmes for village-based community resilience commenced in 2015 and livelihoods restoration programmes in 2019.
01 Jan 2020
Delivering Humanitarian Assistance in Rakhine through Cash-based Interventions
Type: Case study
Organisation: Myanmar Red Cross Society, IFRC
This document provides an overview of diversified use of cash transfers as a successful modality to deliver humanitarian assistance to vulnerable population in a protracted crisis in the context of Rakhine.
01 Sep 2019
Feasibility Study on South Sudan Cash and Voucher Modalities
Type: Research
Organisation: ICRC
Feasibility study on the use of cash and voucher assistance in South Sudan which covers access to goods and services, financial systems, market functioning, opportunities, and risks.
01 Jul 2019
Cash and Voucher Assistance - Economic Security
Type: Learning
Organisation: ICRC
A brief introduction to how the ICRC provides people with emergency relief and support their long-term economic recovery through cash and vouchers.
01 Jul 2019
Improving Lives and Livelihoods Through Cash Transfers: A Humanitarian Assistance Project in Maungdaw Township, Rakhine - Myanmar
Type: Learning
Organisation: IFRC, Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS)
Brief overview of a one-year project implemented by MRCS with multi-lateral support from IFRC, which started in November 2018 to recover livelihoods of populations affected by violence in Maungdaw Township.
11 Jun 2019
Cash for Livelihoods in Prevention and Response to Sexual Violence
Type: Case study
Organisation: ICRC
This case study report elaborates on the details, outcomes, successes, difficulties and recommendations from an ICRC/BRCS Cash for Livelihoods project since 2015.
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