Money matters: An evaluation of the use of cash grants in UNHCR's voluntary repatriation and reintegration programme in Burundi

This evaluation analyses the impact of a cash grant programme on the reintegration of its recipients and on the communities to which they returned. It examines the role the cash grant played in refugee decision-making and the extent to which it enabled them to meet their immediate needs and contributed to their sustainable reintegration. It looks at the mechanisms for distributing and monitoring the cash grant and seeks to analyse whether it formed an appropriate response to the specific needs of potentially vulnerable returnees such as the landless and unaccompanied minors. More broadly, it seeks to draw lessons that can inform the use of cash grants by UNHCR in similar operations in the future.