The Yemen Cash Transfer Programme: How Oxfam used social welfare fund lists and the Post Office system to distribute funds and rebuild donor trust

Author(s)
Whitehead, J.
Publication language
English
Pages
8pp
Date published
01 Sep 2013
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Cash-based transfers (CBT), Food and nutrition, Food security, Funding and donors
Countries
Yemen
Organisations
Oxfam

In October 2011, Oxfam partnered with the Social Welfare Fund and the Post Office in Al Hodeidah governorate in Yemen to deliver cash transfers to vulnerable households during a period of worsening food crisis. With other donors stalling and expressing a lack of trust in this approach, the Oxfam team had to work hard to demonstrate its legitimacy and effectiveness.