1. State of the World’s Cash Report
Objective review of state of cash transfer programming today, compared to commitments, including next steps.
Delivered by CaLP & Accenture
High level steering committee
Collaboration with Development Initiatives
Primary & secondary research
Published February 2018
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Executive Summary
Full Report
8 x Case Studies
Slide Deck

2. 1
Global spend on cash & vouchers increased by 40% to $2.8bn in 2016 2
Capacity for CTP is a limiting factor across organizations
CTP is being considered more often, but not systematically 3
CTP as a % of Total Global Hum. Aid of $27.3bn in 2016
40%
Organizations have enough capacity to implement CTP
Total Cash and Voucher Aid Growth from 2015 to 2016
Sector experience with CTP
Only
Low
High
87%
Food
WASH
Education
Protection
Shelter
Nutrition
Health
Respondents agree that CTP is more routinely considered than a year ago
2016
2.8bn
10.3%
7/10
Organizations have difficulty finding skilled staff for CTP roles
48%
Barriers to accessing CTP trainings
40%
Increment
0.8 bn
Organizations do not agree that market and response analysis are embedded in response
Cost of Face to face trainings
2015
2.0bn
Lack of time to attend 4
The quality of CTP is improving, enhanced by collaboration 5
The coordination of CTP is unreliable, limiting the benefits realized 6
Innovations and evidence are proliferating, but gaps remain
8/10
Practitioners believe their organization
% Practitioners who believe evidence is available to
% Practitioners who believe there has been an improvement in
Has made progress towards increasing the quality of CTP
Has considered evidence of best practices while designing and implementing CTP
Is taking steps to embed common standards and guidelines for CTP
48%
Quality of CTP coordination
41%
Predictability of CTP coordination
80%
100% Agree
0% Agree
Make the case for CTP
Use CTP appropriately across sectors
Inform selection of operational model for CTP
53%
44%
28%
Practitioners believe that national/ local actors are appropriately involved in the coordination for CTP
Barriers to effective coordination for CTP
Confusion about where CTP coordination sits / no leadership in the international system
Limited commitment to use shared operational mechanisms
Source: Practitioner Survey, Organization Survey, CaLP and Accenture Research

3. Critical Debates affecting progress in CTP
Measuring CTP
Should cash and vouchers be measured separately or together?
Operational Models
Multi-purpose Grants
How do we ensure that both efficiency and effectiveness are given due weight in the selection of operational models?
How should we use MPGs appropriately, while ensuring necessary sectoral outcomes?
Critical Debates
Financial Inclusion
Capacity Building
What are the most appropriate ways to combine humanitarian CTP with longer term financial inclusion?
What do new ways of implementing CTP mean for capacity building?
Social Protection
How and when can humanitarian CTP align best with social protection systems?

4. Future progress depends on two key themes and three enabling factors
Integrate CTP into all existing mechanisms of providing humanitarian aid, including: organizations’ policies, strategies, management and reporting systems, funding and programming decisions, capacity building initiatives, coordination mechanisms, standards, guidance, tools and others.
Innovate and strengthen the evidence base. Trial new ways of working that generate the greatest benefits for people in crisis from the opportunities created by CTP. Develop new partnerships and stronger insights into CTP, share experience and learn together.
Three enabling factors
Sustain the high-level policy commitments needed for the effective implementation of CTP.
2. Plan and act collaboratively. Expect to use common approaches and mechanisms for CTP at operational, national and global levels, which are implemented across organizations and existing technical sectors.
3. Support a limited amount of CTP-specific infrastructure, including platforms for collective action on CTP.

5. The Cash Learning Partnership’s Offer
1. Capacity Building
2. Knowledge
Cash Learning Hub (with HLA)
Training Courses
Fundamentals
3 x Core courses
Specialist courses & scenarios
Organisational “Cash Readiness Tool”
Programme Quality Toolbox (linked to Sphere)
Learning events
e.g. Gender (E Africa), MPG (W Africa),
Research & guidance, e.g.:
Monitoring
Operational models
Cash Barometer (with GroundTruth)
Dgroups
3. Coordination
4. Policy
Support national Cash Working Groups
Support clusters
Global approaches
Global analysis
Grand Bargain & Good Humanitarian Donorship
Integrating cash into other policy debates
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