Working together around market- and cash-based responses

In the last decade, the increasing uptake of Cash Transfers to deliver humanitarian responses has lead to a general acceptance of their potential added values to respond to a wide variety of needs (from food security to shelter, etc.). As a humanitarian tool, Cash Transfers have a great potential to change the way humanitarian aid is delivered to respond to the multiple and diverse needs of crisis affected women and men. Cash Transfers however also challenge the way humanitarian actors work together in the field.

The session will look at the country-level (Jordan and Lebanon) challenges faced by traditional humanitarian actors in terms of coordination when designing and implementing market based programming or when using Cash Transfers to deliver their response. It will also look at the opportunities Cash Transfers and market-based programming present to work better together to improve humanitarian response effectiveness and ultimately quality.

Chair

• Hélene Juillard
  Independent consultant

Panel

• Wendy Brightman
  Regional Response CPT Advisor, American Red Cross
   
• Carla Lacerda
  Inter-Agency Senior Cash Adviser, Save the Children/UNHCR
   
• Lily Frey
  Electronic Cash Transfer Officer, Mercy Corps
   
• Gregory Matthews
  Senior Advisor for Emergency Livelihoods