PHA-Exchange> giving money rather than food or other kinds of aid

[Claudio]

From: "Rosemary Cairns" <rosemary.1cairns at Community.RoyalRoads.ca>

> You may want to have a look at the Humanitarian Practice Network
> Paper entitled "Cash relief in a contested area: lessons from
> Somalia", written by Degan Ali, Fanta Toure and Tilleke Kiewied.
> It is HPN Network paper number 40, published March 2005. The HPN
> website is http://www.odihpn.org
> 
> "The paper concludes that, even in areas of political instabil-
> ity, cash relief can be an effective and viable alternative.
> There can be no 'blueprint' for the use of cash across all emer-
> gencies and in all circumstances. However, evidence is growing
> to suggest that, where circumstances are amenable, there is
> scope for increasing the use of cash as an instrument in humani-
> tarian response." (From HPN website)
> 
> Several other papers discuss the idea of distributing cash
> rather than aid, or outline projects where this has been done,
> but I don't have details handy at the moment. I will look for
> them and post them later, if anyone is interested.