Learning Event on Cash Coordination: Geneva, May 2015 (10 min)

While humanitarian cash transfer programming (CTP) has been a reality for many years, recent emergencies in the Philippines and in the Syria crisis have demonstrated a growing interest of humanitarian actors in the use of cash as a modality of response. 

A CaLP and IFRC-led Cash Coordination learning event was held in 2012 to consider the challenges posed and opportunities offered by cash transfer programming (CTP) to humanitarian coordination. Since this event, the use of CTP has further increased, resulting in different models of cash coordination particularly in regards to multi-purpose cash (not limited to a single cluster or sector). At the same time, a range of different initiatives from donors and operational agencies have emerged over the past months that consider the potential of cash transfers as a multi-sector tool and the implications of an increase in multi-purpose cash for humanitarian architecture. 

This event sought to reflect on the progress since 2012 and to learn lessons from recent experiences in order to strengthen a common understanding of best practices and basic principles for cash coordination in the field.