Cash Transfers for Crisis Response

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As the world faces an unprecedented scale of humanitarian crises, organizations are looking to innovative solutions to deliver much-needed assistance in real time. Cash transfers — giving cash instead of goods to people impacted by disasters — may offer a solution. Yet despite the promise of this model, cash transfers make up only a small percentage of major donors' multi-billion dollar aid budget.

Can cash transfers offer the outsize benefits they've been touted to deliver? And if so, how can organizations integrate cash transfers in their work? On February 13, Devex will convene a panel of experts to discuss best practices for using humanitarian cash transfers and to explore what works — and what doesn't — when it comes to this new form of aid.

This webinar will cover:

How cash transfers work — and how they may be used in your organization
What works and what doesn't when it comes to cash aid
Lessons on how to begin using cash transfers — and an honest look at the challenges associated with the process
Case studies of success in humanitarian cash transfers

We will also reserve time at the end for audience questions. You are welcome to send them ahead of the event to [email protected].

Admission is complimentary for all Devex members.

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	Deqa Saleh Cash and Social Protection Advisor, ADESO Deqa Saleh is currently Cash and Social Protection Advisor at Adeso and provides technical support and guidance to field teams in Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan. She has almost 10 years experience working on humanitarian and development programs, specializing in program management of cash and social protection interventions. She is also a facilitator of Adeso-designed training workshops on cash based interventions, undertaking training workshops in numerous countries such as Ivory Coast, Malawi and Central African Republic in both English and French.
	Owen Barder Vice President, Director of CGD Europe and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development Owen Barder is a Vice President at the Center for Global Development, Director for Europe and a senior fellow. He is also a Visting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics and a Specialist Adviser to the UK House of Commons International Development Committee. Barder was a British civil servant from 1988 to 2010, during which time he worked in No.10 Downing Street, as Private Secretary (Economic Affairs) to the Prime Minister; in the UK Treasury, including as Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and in the Department for International Development, where he was variously Director of International Finance and Global Development Effectiveness, Director of Communications and Information, and head of Africa Policy & Economics Department. As a young Treasury economist, Barder set up the first UK government website to put details of the 1994 budget online.
	Sara Jerving East Africa Correspondent, Devex Sara Jerving is Devex's East Africa Correspondent based in Nairobi. She is a reporter and producer, whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Vice News, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Nation magazine, among others. Sara holds a master's degree in business and economic reporting from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow.