Cash Transfer

Is Humanitarian Food Aid Enough to Tackle Food Insecurity in Yemen?

Francesco Di Bona - MA in Development Economics and International Studies, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

In crisis and conflict contexts, food assistance is used as a main form of humanitarian aid. Food insecurity can be tackled directly through food basket transfers or school feeding programmes, or indirectly through cash or voucher transfers, with the latter that can be redeemed in supermarkets. Lately, cash transfers have been on the rise as a humanitarian food aid measure. The World Food Programme (WFP) has been [...]

A Call for Evidence-based and Sustained Action for Improving Nutrition in Egypt

Aula Ali - IFPRI Egypt office intern
Habiba Hassan Wassef - Health and Nutrition Policy in Sustainable Development Researcher, National Research Center
Sahar Zaghloul - Vice President, National Nutrition Committee
Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI Egypt Country Program Leader

What are the recommended actions for supporting the 100 million Healthy Lives initiative: based on the existing data and research and on experts and policy makers that attended the joint IFPRI Egypt - NNC seminars, the following actions are recommended: [...]

Policy seminar: Exploring a cash transfer program’s impacts on malnutrition in war-torn Yemen

Katarlah Taylor -  IFPRI Senior Events Specialist

The war in Yemen is an ongoing disaster for its people. Over 80% of the population currently requires humanitarian or protection assistance, making it the worst such crisis in the world, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. With two thirds of all districts experiencing pre-famine conditions, and 20 million people food-insecure, the question of how best to deliver food assistance is paramount. A Sept. 5 IFPRI seminar explored [...]

Publication: Can unconditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of civil conflict on acute child malnutrition in Yemen?

Olivier Ecker, Jean-François Maystadt, Zhe Guo

Hunger and acute child malnutrition are increasingly concentrated in fragile countries and civil conflict zones. According to the United Nations, Yemen’s civil war has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. We use high-frequency panel data and district fixed-effects and household fixed-effects models to estimate the impact of civil conflict on child nutrition.

Evaluation finds successes for Egypt’s first conditional cash transfer program

Hoda El-Enbaby, Research Associate, IFPRI Egypt

In 2015, the Egyptian government implemented a series of major economic reforms, including ambitious antipoverty programs. To protect the poor and better target them for assistance, the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS), with the support of the World Bank (WB), launched the “Takaful & Karama” Programme(TKP), Egypt’s first national conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.

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