Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social protection have increasingly
emerged as a policy response tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict or …

Cash-based assistance (CBA) has emerged as a promising transfer modality over in-kind
assistance in humanitarian aid. However, it is still associated with several disadvantages …

Social protection programmes in the form of social cash transfers (SCTs) to vulnerable
households and individuals have been adopted at an unprecedented scale across the …

Background Cash-based assistance in humanitarian contexts has grown substantially in
recent years, yet little is empirically known about differential impacts of cash for diverse …

Background In May 2014, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), in
partnership with the DRC Humanitarian Country-Based Pooled Fund, requested …

Global hunger levels have set new records in each of the last three years, outpacing aid
budgets (WFP, 2023; FSIN, 2023). Most households experiencing food insecurity crises are …

Background The Global Education Cluster (GEC) has been working to build the evidence
base around cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in education in emergencies (EiE) …

Confronted with a variety of challenges, the international humanitarian system tries to
develop innovative approaches in order to adapt and adjust humanitarian action to the …

This article presents a field‐based review of existing mechanisms in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC) for targeting poor households as beneficiaries of social programs …

This thesis sheds some light on how cash and voucher assistance (CVA) can promote
sustainable livelihood outcomes in protracted crisis settings, analyzing the case study of …