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A woman uses her water credit, which is stored in a small, plastic token, to buy water from a Water ATM in Hadado, Kenya. Credit: Katie G. Nelson/Oxfam

Taking emergency water, sanitation and hygiene to market

Esther Shaylor

March 1st, 2018 Humanitarian, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Esther Shaylor explains how Oxfam is working with other NGOs to share learning about providing emergency water, sanitation and hygiene using local markets. In recent years there has been a …

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Cash transferHygieneMarketsSanitationWater
A market stall at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Credit: Corrie Sissons, Oxfam

Reaching refugees and boosting small businesses in Bangladesh

Corrie Sissons

December 19th, 2017 Emergency, Food & livelihoods, Humanitarian, Refugees and IDPs

By providing emergency cash or vouchers Oxfam can help people in crisis to get desperately needed food and other items, while boosting local businesses at the same time. Corrie Sissons …

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ICTs in emergency response – what we’ve learnt

Laura Eldon

June 15th, 2017 Humanitarian, ICT4D

How can and should information and communication technologies (ICTs) be employed in humanitarian contexts to improve the quality and efficiency of aid delivery? Laura Eldon reflects on the findings of …

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Cash transferICT4DInnovationSHINE
Jane Muthoni, 50, buying ingredients to make homemade yoghurt which she sells to the local community in Kawangware, Nairobi, Kenya. 2016. Credit: Allan Gichigi/Oxfam

New standards for humanitarian programmes and markets

Jonathan Parkinson

June 1st, 2017 Cash transfers, General, Humanitarian

The new Minimum Economic Recovery Standards will support quality market-based programming, and effective working between humanitarian and development practitioners explains Jonathan Parkinson, Oxfam’s Senior WASH Programme Development Adviser. During and …

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Filling water cans as part of Oxfam's drought response in Somaliland. Credit: Oxfam. Cash transfers

Smarter aid: Why digital cash transfers are the future

Nigel Tricks

May 18th, 2017 Cash transfers, Food & livelihoods, General, Humanitarian, ICT4D

With mobile internet now widely available across East Africa the arguments for aid through electronic cash transfers are overwhelming. Nigel Tricks, Oxfam’s Horn East and Central Africa Regional Director reflects …

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Oxfam/ECHO cash assistance allows people to rebuild their lives.

Three ways cash is king for asylum seekers in Greece

Stefania Imperia

April 20th, 2017 Aid, Emergency, Refugees and IDPs

Stefania Imperia asks what cash assistance means in practical terms for asylum seekers in Greece.  With tens of thousands of refugees and migrants stranded in Greece for an undefined period, providing …

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Asylum seekersCash programmingCash transferElectronic cash transferGreeceRefugee crisisRefugeesRefugees and migrantsSyria
A woman hangs her washing to dry in Ruti, Zimbabwe 2012.

Cash transfer programming in Zimbabwe

Khodeza Rume

April 11th, 2017 Aid, Food & livelihoods, ICT4D

Khodeza Rume, a Humanitarian Support Personnel in Food Security and Livelihoods, reflects on a recent electronic cash programme with the World Food Programme and Econet.  With the 2008 financial crash, Zimbabwe …

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IDPs wait in line to receive aid at an Oxfam distribution. The unconditional cash transfer is for the most vulnerable people affected by the current war in the country. Khamer district, Yemen.

Cash transfers: A catalogue of solutions

Anna Kondakhchyan

January 31st, 2017 Humanitarian

ICT in Programme Humanitarian Advisor, Anna Kondakhchyan reflects on an exciting new initiative designed to help practitioners navigate the ins and outs of electronic cash transfers. s Oxfam increasingly defaults …

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Cash catalogueCash programmingCash transferCash transfer programmingELANSHINE
A market trader sells carrots

Women’s economic empowerment and cash transfer programming

Rose Smith

September 2nd, 2016 Aid, Gender, Her Series, Women's Economic Empowerment

Cash Transfer Programmes (CTP) are increasingly becoming more popular in relief response, but how can they help women’s economic empowerment? Rose Smith from The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) gives us …

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