CASH and VOUCHER TRANSFERS in

FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

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• Delivering “Hunger Solutions” and reduce food insecurity.

• Cash and voucher transfers for social protection, to increase resilience

but also to meet relief needs.

• Ability to shift among cash, food and vouchers allows WFP to tailor

the response maintaining it relevant over the intervention’s lifetime.

• Broader toolbox has the potential to increase the intervention’s

effectiveness.

Background

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oPt: e-vouchers WFP & Ministry Social Affairs

2. Enable beneficiaries to purchase local products (cheese, eggs, etc.) directly from grocery shops;

1. Protect the livelihoods and enhance dietary diversity of urban food insecure households;

3. Invest in local communities, stimulate economic activity and employment at the micro level.

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oPt: e-vouchers Project Outcomes

Significant and sustained improvement of household dietary diversity compared to baseline data and to households receiving in-kind food assistance.

40% of participating shops showed more than 60% increase in sales due to the vouchers and to the spill-over effects on the shops’ businesses.

Employment increased from an average of 0.9 to 2.4 employees per shop, which, corresponds on average to 35 people hired as a result of the voucher project.

Beneficiaries perceived the voucher programme as improving their choice, flexibility and dignity.

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Burkina Faso: vouchers WFP & Ministry Social Affairs

2. Enable beneficiaries to purchase local products (cereals, pulses, soap, etc.) directly from grocery shops largely affected by the reduced purchasing power.

1. Protect the livelihoods of the poorest affected by substantial purchasing power erosion and income loss.

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Burkina Faso: vouchers Project Outcomes

Poverty persisted but WFP assistance mitigated the impoverishment trend among the beneficiaries.

Prevalence of severe food insecurity dropped from 80 to 65 percent among assisted households.

For the majority of beneficiaries increased food intake (quantity and quality).

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Kenya: Conditional Cash

Objective: Resilience

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Kenya: Conditional Cash

Access to market

MWANGANGI, Widowed Mother of 3 : “With the cash I receive, I can buy vegetables, rice and even milk for my children.”

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Food 76%

School fees 16%

Farm inputs 2%

Medical 2%

IGA 2%

Other 2%

Household expenditure: > 50 percent of the food-receiving households showed expenditures of less than 50 percent on food. Cash-receiving households showed the opposite extreme, where more than 75 percent of their expenditure is for food.

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Kenya: Conditional Cash

…through village banking

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Financial literacy

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Kenya: Conditional Cash

MWANIKI, MOTHER OF 6 “…I intend to make some savings and buy a goat so my children can

have milk.”

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• Stimulate local markets

• Beneficiaries become decision-makers

• Cost-efficiency improved

• Support government-led social protection programs

• Create new opportunities for handover

• Require enhanced capacity, new systems and procedures

• Critical role of private sector and service providers

• C&V based operations remain underfunded hampering results

Sustained and regular funding are critical to building resilience and creating multiplier effects

Opportunities & Challenges

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