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Transforming Humanitarian Aid with Cash Transfers: High Level Panel Report
Owen Barder
September 15, 2015
The High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers published its report this week, concluding that the international system should take deliberate steps to seize two big opportunities to improve humanitarian aid.
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Doing Cash Differently: How Cash Transfers Can Transform Humanitarian Aid
The High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers
September 14, 2015
The Report of the High Level Panel on Humanitarian Cash Transfers shows why giving aid directly in the form of cash is often a highly effective way to reduce suffering and to make limited humanitarian aid budgets go further. We urge the humanitarian community to give more aid as cash, and to make ca...
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Humanitarian Cash Transfers: Six Things We Know and One (Big) Thing We Don’t
Theodore Talbot
August 31, 2015
There’s a growing consensus that humanitarian cash transfers can help to bridge the widening gap between needs and resources, empowering people affected by disaster and using local markets to deliver the goods and services we previously thought only aid agencies could provide.
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On World Humanitarian Day: Could We Do Better with Cash?
Owen Barder
August 18, 2015
Owen Barder says World Humanitarian Day is an opportunity to honor humanitarian workers and organisations, but also an opportunity to think about how the world can do this better.