Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social protection have increasingly emerged as a policy response tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict or natural disasters. This paper presents a descriptive literature review of non-contributory humanitarian assistance in...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099445304272240978/IDU01240088a0d11904ded09c4b0aa5fc374c8d8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37369 |
| Summary: | Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social
protection have increasingly emerged as a policy response
tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict
or natural disasters. This paper presents a descriptive literature
review of non-contributory humanitarian assistance
interventions in low-and-middle income countries. It uses
evidence from twenty-one experimental or quasi-experimental
studies to understand the effects on five outcome
categories: (i) basic needs, (ii) financial outcomes, (iii) gender,
(iv) human development, and (v) social cohesion. The
findings show that gender, human development, and social
cohesion are the least explored outcomes in humanitarian
contexts. Moreover, evidence is scarce on the comparative
performance of different modalities (for example, cash
vs. in-kind), targeting mechanisms, cost-effectiveness of
alternative interventions, heterogeneity analysis, and longer-
term effects of interventions. The paper makes the case
that there is a high dividend to be earned from conducting
more impact evaluations in humanitarian settings. |
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