Learning from cash responses to the tsunami: Setting the value

This paper is the final product of a three-year research project looking into when the option of giving people money instead of, or as well as, in-kind assistance is feasible and appropriate.

This paper is a summary of a three-year research project looking into when the option of giving people money instead of, or as well as, in-kind assistance is feasible and appropriate.

This project set out to record the experiences of agencies implementing cash-based interventions, and their results, and to develop guidelines for future emergency cash interventions.

These case studies present information on the range of sectors where cash transfers have been a critical element.