Webinar: Cash transfers for crisis response

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NAIROBI — The humanitarian sector should aim to deliver aid in the most cost-effective, efficient ways, and this can be reached through unconditional cash transfers, argued panelists in Devex’s recent webinar on the use of cash transfers in crisis responses. The delivery of in-kind food aid can result in aid recipients selling the food in local markets, often at a discount to the original value, because what was given to them wasn’t what they needed at the time, they said.

Source: Hiiraan Online