Cash Coordination Response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), December 2013

INTRODUCTION

When used appropriately, cash-based interventions can have multiplier effects in helping to meet peoples’ needs in food, shelter, non-food items, health, nutrition and education, protecting or rebuilding livelihoods, facilitating the return and reintegration of displaced people, and stimulating the rehabilitation of markets.

Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) has been used in the Philippines since 2008 and is featuring strongly in the current humanitarian response as a way to aid the recovery of markets while also reinforcing choice, dignity and accountability for the affected people. What sets this response apart from others is the potential scale of cash transfers and geographical variation in the appropriateness and timeliness of CTP.