Publication: 03 Jan 2019
With the recent increasing need for Emergency Cash Transfer programs, private consulting firms alongside and the international organizations, find themselves obligated to constantly develop innovative mechanisms and tools to respond quickly to the emergency contexts. When a natural or humanitarian disaster struck, international assistance programs (such as UNICEF, World Food Program (WFP) and others) would respond by providing assistance to people in need.
Cash transfer programming is also recognized by other international agencies and governments as a powerful instrument to help vulnerable people living in poverty to increase, not just in the sense of their household income, but also in terms of school enrollment, health and nutrition indicators, in addition to supporting people’s choice to spend cash benefits on what they feel they need the most (instead of what the program has decided they need) and thus retain dignity among affected populations.
