Impact and effectiveness of cash assistance – Cash in Türkiye

Our goal is to positively change the situation of people affected by crisis or displacement. For this reason, we are constantly monitoring and evaluating our activities to ensure that they result in the desired impact. This section focuses on the effectiveness and impact of humanitarian cash assistance programmes, including findings from these processes, best practices and lessons learned.

3 May 2023

Intersectional Vulnerability Study- Living on bare minimum: An exploration of the vulnerability of refugees in Türkiye.

Type:

Report

Organization:

Turkish Red Crescent (Türk Kızılay)

Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) and IFRC Türkiye Delegation present the second round of the Intersectoral Vulnerability Study (IVS-2), an effort aimed at evaluating the vulnerability and severity of humanitarian conditions…

  • Impact and effectiveness of cash assistance – Cash in Turkey
  • Vulnerability and targeting – Cash in Turkey

20 February 2023

Shaken to the Core: Assessing the impact of the earthquake on ESSN and C-ESSN recipients

Type:

Report

Organization:

IFRC, Turkish Red Crescent (Türk Kızılay)

This report provides an overview of the impact of the February 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake on ESSN and C-ESSN Recipients and offers a roadmap for cash assistance implementation

  • Impact and effectiveness of cash assistance – Cash in Turkey

17 November 2022

Linkages between humanitarian cash assistance and social protection: Lessons learnt from the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) in Türkiye

Type:

Learning

Organization:

IFRC, Turkish Red Crescent (Türk Kızılay)

This report summarises key lessons learnt from the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme in Türkiye, focusing on the linkages the programme makes between government’s social protection and Movement humanitarian…

  • Cash and social protection
  • Community, engagement and accountability – Cash in Turkey
  • Impact and effectiveness of cash assistance – Cash in Turkey
  • Livelihoods and social cohesion – Cash in Turkey

17 November 2022

Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN): Social assistance for refugees in Türkiye

Type:

Learning

Organization:

Turkish Red Crescent (Türk Kızılay)

This fact sheet provides an overview on the implementation of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme for social assistance to refugees in Türkiye since its inception

  • Cash and social protection
  • Community, engagement and accountability – Cash in Turkey
  • Impact and effectiveness of cash assistance – Cash in Turkey
  • Vulnerability and targeting – Cash in Turkey

13 April 2022

Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) Satisfaction and Feedback Survey Results Report

Type:

Report

Organization:

Turkish Red Crescent (Türk Kızılay), Turkish Red Crescent Society

The ESSN Satisfaction and Feedback Survey conducted in April 2021 to understand the level of satisfaction among applicants with various stages and components of the ESSN programme.

  • Impact and effectiveness of cash assistance – Cash in Turkey

1 October 2021

ESSN Post Distribution Monitoring 11

Type:

post distribution monitoring

Organization:

IFRC, Turkish Red Crescent (Türk Kızılay)

The study showed that non-recipient households were better in terms of having higher income and lower in LSCI and RCSI scores than PDM 10 compared with ESSN recipient households, who relied on coping strategies more than before. The Food Consumption Score also deteriorated more for ESSN recipients more than non-recipients, even though the level of expenditure on food was higher.

  • Community, engagement and accountability – Cash in Turkey
  • Data management – Cash in Turkey
  • Impact and effectiveness of cash assistance – Cash in Turkey
  • Livelihoods and social cohesion – Cash in Turkey