Operational guidelines for cash-based interventions in displacement settings

Pages
120pp
Date published
01 Jan 2015
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, System-wide performance, Training

Cash-based interventions are increasingly being recognised as a response modality that can help meet humanitarian needs while promoting the principles that guide the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Specifically:

- UNHCR is committed to protecting basic human rights, including the right of refugees and other persons of concern to live safely and with dignity.

- UNHCR will employ a rights- and community-based approach, which is participatory and promotes self-reliance.

- UNHCR will implement interventions that respond to changing needs while drawing on refugee capacities, local resources, materials and methods (including avoiding regimented refugee settings). 

This Operational Guidance will help UNHCR staff to determine if and when cash-based interventions are appropriate, and to design and implement an effective programme. It focuses on the needs of refugees, but can be used to design programmes for other persons of concern.