Determining the Value of Cash Grants in Remote Access Areas

The increased use of cash grants as part of humanitarian response has led to the development of a number of tools and approaches by various agencies to best decide what needs the cash transfer is intended to meet. This is based on good programming practice and setting clear objectives for the assistance provided and then deciding on what in-kind, cash and mixed modalities are most appropriate and feasible. Recent years have seen an increased number of actors involved, more coordination discussions around the value of cash grants, and discussion on multipurpose/unconditional cash grants as a first response to meet immediate, basic needs.

This review aims to complement the work of NRC within the framework of the ECHO funded Remote Cash Project by providing a comparative analysis of different means of determining the size of cash grants, with the development of practical recommendations for approaches that can be used in hard to access areas.

This report aims to highlight how the collective use of tools and approaches in humanitarian responses that involve CTP are now being used to support discussions around setting the value of cash transfers in humanitarian contexts where there are access issues and where remote management may be in place.