- The case for large cash transfers: supporting refugees to meet basic needs and build resilience0.33 MB
The humanitarian sector has been asking for more humanitarian cash assistance for decades, and the evidence base for this modality is strong. Yet the call for cash assistance to be given as large, multipurpose cash transfers rather than monthly subsistence payments or fragmented sectoral cash is still relatively new.
This policy brief reports the findings of the baseline and endline surveys of the large cash transfer programme in Kiryandongo. It builds on a previous policy brief published by HPG in September 2025, which showed that cash is faster, cheaper, less wasteful, more impactful and more flexible than aid given in kind, and argued that cash transfers – and ideally large cash transfers – should be given first in a crisis.
Report by the Overseas Development Institute
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