Children on the move: Progressive redistribution of humanitarian cash transfers among refugees

An impact assessment of EAMDA’s banana initiative to increase technology adoption by smallholder farmers in Kenya

“…Cash transfers have been found to increase access to basic necessities, such as housing (Hagen-Zanker et al 2018;Aker 2017), and improve the economic well-being and inequality (Özler et al 2021;Doocy and Tappis 2017;Aygün et al 2021;Salti et al 2022). For human capital outcomes, such as nutrition (food security, dietary diversity, and caloric consumption), there have been mostly positive results (Özler et al 2021;Doocy and Tappis 2017;van Daalen et al 2022;Ecker et al 2019;Salti et al 2022). Similar positive findings were observed for education outcomes (Moussa et al 2022;Aygün et al 2021;Salti et al 2022) and child labor-related outcomes (Moussa et al 2022;Aygün et al 2021;Salti et al 2022).…”

“…Findings from existing evidence are promising, but geographically sparse. Cash transfers have been found to increase access to basic necessities, such as housing (Hagen-Zanker et al 2018;Aker 2017), and improve the economic well-being and inequality (Özler et al 2021;Doocy and Tappis 2017;Aygün et al 2021;Salti et al 2022). For human capital outcomes, such as nutrition (food security, dietary diversity, and caloric consumption), there have been mostly positive results (Özler et al 2021;Doocy and Tappis 2017;van Daalen et al 2022;Ecker et al 2019;Salti et al 2022).…”

Design and implementation of an intensive panel survey with refugees and other migrants in need of protection in Costa Rica

“…This discrimination can depress their wages [42] and make it hard for them to obtain or maintain employment [41,43]. Income insecurity, in turn, can result in bouts of hunger or homelessness [44][45][46] and likewise can exacerbate residential instability in the form of evictions [44] and/or household compositional changes that accompany a churning of household members [47].…”

Five recommendations to advance implementation science for humanitarian settings: the next frontier of humanitarian research

“…Delivering evidence-based programming in humanitarian crises grappling with war, climate change, and disaster is a formidable challenge. To support this goal, rigorous impact evaluations are increasingly being implemented to deliver better aid from evaluating the impact of cash transfers [ 1 ], promoting better education for children [ 2 ], advancing mental health and psychosocial programming for people affected by disaster [ 3 ], and improving the safety and wellbeing of women and children in conflict-affected zones [ 4 , 5 ]. Methodologies have also advanced substantially such that studies can be pre-positioned for acute crises to promote the effectiveness of anticipatory action or find creative approaches to build comparison groups that do not delay receipt of aid, but rather ethically exploit organic programmatic delivery cycles and targeting procedures [ 6 ] or use propensity score matching approaches [ 7 ].…”