Cash-based programming – a catalyst for change in humanitarian aid? Exploring cash-based programming’s effects on humanitarian aid, the humanitarian-development nexus & the localisation agenda
(2022) SIMV24 20221Graduate School
Master of Science in Development Studies
- Abstract
- Humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent- and increasingly protracted, causing humanitarian actors to be under mounting pressure in their attempts to respond to the increasing amount of people in need. Among else, cash-based programming has been highlighted as part of the solution to this and has been rapidly on the rise as an aid modality among humanitarian actors in the past few years. While much research has been done on the effects caused by cash programming, this thesis instead aims to explore how this rapid adaptation is affecting humanitarian aid, and what this could mean for humanitarian aid moving forward. Additionally, with links being identified between cash-based programming and the policy areas of... (More)
- Humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent- and increasingly protracted, causing humanitarian actors to be under mounting pressure in their attempts to respond to the increasing amount of people in need. Among else, cash-based programming has been highlighted as part of the solution to this and has been rapidly on the rise as an aid modality among humanitarian actors in the past few years. While much research has been done on the effects caused by cash programming, this thesis instead aims to explore how this rapid adaptation is affecting humanitarian aid, and what this could mean for humanitarian aid moving forward. Additionally, with links being identified between cash-based programming and the policy areas of humanitarian-development nexus and the localisation agenda, the interrelation between these is explored in depth. By interviewing actors who work with cash-based programming in humanitarian aid at different levels, its impacts are explored. Here, flexibility, universality, economic viability, dignity and digitalisation are some of the key themes found in the data. Moreover, there are strong links between the humanitarian-development nexus and cash-based programming, where Nexus aspects can be considered implicit in cash-based programming itself. Additionally, cash programming is found to be more compatible with multi-year funding and anticipatory responses, which better fits the reality of protracted crises. On the localisation agenda, finding connections to cash programming was more difficult, as it is less technical in nature than Nexus, and rather an area which is more politically loaded. The impacts of cash programming on localisation can be considered more accidental- than deliberate. Conclusively, stating that cash programming is the catalyst for change would be bold, however, it would seem it is the modality through which much of the current change in humanitarian aid is channelled through, avertedly- and inadvertently. (Less)
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- author
- Drury, Charles LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMV24 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- aid, humanitarian, humanitarian aid, cash-based programming, cash transfers, humanitarian cash transfers, cash and voucher assistance, Nexus, HDP Nexus, localisation agenda, localization agenda, multi-year funding, anticipatory response, consortium, resilience, catalyse, facilitate
- language
- English
- id
- 9099580
- date added to LUP
- 2022-09-20 08:48:07
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- 2022-09-20 08:48:07
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abstract = {{Humanitarian crises are becoming more frequent- and increasingly protracted, causing humanitarian actors to be under mounting pressure in their attempts to respond to the increasing amount of people in need. Among else, cash-based programming has been highlighted as part of the solution to this and has been rapidly on the rise as an aid modality among humanitarian actors in the past few years. While much research has been done on the effects caused by cash programming, this thesis instead aims to explore how this rapid adaptation is affecting humanitarian aid, and what this could mean for humanitarian aid moving forward. Additionally, with links being identified between cash-based programming and the policy areas of humanitarian-development nexus and the localisation agenda, the interrelation between these is explored in depth. By interviewing actors who work with cash-based programming in humanitarian aid at different levels, its impacts are explored. Here, flexibility, universality, economic viability, dignity and digitalisation are some of the key themes found in the data. Moreover, there are strong links between the humanitarian-development nexus and cash-based programming, where Nexus aspects can be considered implicit in cash-based programming itself. Additionally, cash programming is found to be more compatible with multi-year funding and anticipatory responses, which better fits the reality of protracted crises. On the localisation agenda, finding connections to cash programming was more difficult, as it is less technical in nature than Nexus, and rather an area which is more politically loaded. The impacts of cash programming on localisation can be considered more accidental- than deliberate. Conclusively, stating that cash programming is the catalyst for change would be bold, however, it would seem it is the modality through which much of the current change in humanitarian aid is channelled through, avertedly- and inadvertently.}},
author = {{Drury, Charles}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Cash-based programming – a catalyst for change in humanitarian aid? Exploring cash-based programming’s effects on humanitarian aid, the humanitarian-development nexus & the localisation agenda}},
year = {{2022}},
}