CARE Afghanistan: Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) Post-Distribution Monitoring Report

CARE conducted a need assessment prior to provide cash assistance in the target areas to identify most vulnerable female headed households and disabled male headed household for this assistance. In the second week of November 2021, CARE’s Program Quality Unit (PQ) conducted a Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) on a randomly selected beneficiary to ascertain area including but limited to cash receipt, cash utilization, decision level for cash expenditure and assess monitoring and accountability measures. The process used mixed approaches/method for the PDM assessment in-person and remotely through telephone calls by both female and male staff which helped understand the level of appropriateness, effectiveness and impact of the cash assistance on their livelihood during the current crises.