Operationalising the
Multipurpose Cash
Grant: A toolkit
IASC
Geneva, November
20th, 2015
With the support of:
Enhanced Response Capacity Grant
Stream 1: Operationalising the
MPG
Vulnerability and Targeting
MPG Toolkit
Coordination
Information management
Deployments
Stream 1: Understanding the
Protection Implications of Cash
Analysis and M&E Tools
Evidence
Deployments
The Toolkit: What, Why and How
• An MPG is a transfer (either
regular or one-off)
corresponding to the amount of
money a household needs to
cover, fully or partially, a set of
basic and/or recovery needs.
• MPGs are by definition
unrestricted cash transfers.
• The MPG will contribute to
meeting survival or basic needs,
but can also include other oneoff/recovery needs.
Introduction
• Why Multipurpose Cash
Grants?
• What, why and for whom
this toolkit?
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What is the
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How will we
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Who needs what
Can it be
acquired locally
by paying for it
How and what
will we monitor
How will we
work with
government
Programme
Implementation
Needs
Assessment
How much
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To whom will we
give it
Can we deliver
cash
Coordination and
Preparedness
How will we give
it (together)
Programme
Design
Operational
Feasibility
What are the
protectionrelated risks and
benefits
What does the
government
think
How much will
we give
Grant Design
What it the
specific objective
How will cash
needs change
over time and
space
What can people
make up on their
own
Do we have the
capacity to do
our part
What other
assistance is
being provided
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How will we
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What is the
impact of the
crisis
Who needs what
Can it be
acquired locally
by paying for it
How and what
will we monitor
How will we
work with
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Programme
Implementation
Needs
Assessment
How much
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To whom will we
give it
Can we deliver
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How will we give
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What are the
protectionrelated risks and
benefits
Programme
Design
Operational
Feasibility
What does the
government
think
How much will
we give
Grant Design
What it the
specific objective
How will cash
needs change
over time and
space
What can people
make up on their
own
Do we have the
capacity to do
our part
What other
assistance is
being provided
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Situation & Response Analysis
• What it is
Situation
Analysis
Operational
Feasibility
Needs Assessment
Protection Risks/Benefits
Market Situation Analysis
In-depth Multi-sector
Market Assessment
Delivery mechanisms
Vulnerability Assessment
Political feasibility
Cost of surviving (MEB)
Organizational Capacity
So what’s different?
Challenges
• Challenges ways of working
• Multi-sectoral not siloed
• Priorities not sectors
Solutions
• Collaborate across sectors
and agencies
• Be pragmatic
• Iterate
Next steps
• For needs assessment
– Vulnerability assessment
– The cost of surviving/living or Minimum Expenditure Basket
• For operational feasibility
– Multi-sector market assessments
– Protection risks and benefits analysis
Living in a
warehouse
Immediate Effect
Immediate Cause (Why?)
Secondary Cause
(Why?)
Tertiary Cause
(Why?)
Can’t afford rent
Lack of cheap
housing options
Discrimination by
landlords
Lack of cash
Unfinished
buildings because
of local economic
depression
Perception that
whites can’t be
trusted
No working adults
Illegal to work
Part 1.2 Vulnerability Analysis from a crisis-specific
socio-economic perspective
Minimum Expenditure Basket
• Defined as what a
household needs and
its average cost over
time.
• The MPG will
contribute to meeting
the MEB, but can also
include other oneoff/recovery needs.
Part 1.3 Multi-Sector
Market Assessment
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What is a market?
Why market assessment?
What is a multi-sector market assessment?
How to do a multi-sector market assessment?
Situation
Analysis
Operational
Feasibility
Needs Assessment
Protection Risks/Benefits
Market Situation Analysis
In-depth Multi-sector
Market Assessment
Delivery mechanisms
Vulnerability Assessment
Political feasibility
Cost of surviving (MEB)
Organizational Capacity
MULTIPURPOSE CASH GRANT
Water and
Sanitation
Livelihoods
Shelter
Core relief
items
Protection
Health
Food
Security
Education
PART 2. TRANSFER DESIGN
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How will we
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What is the
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crisis
Who needs what
Can it be
acquired locally
by paying for it
How and what
will we monitor
How will we
work with
government
Programme
Implementation
Needs
Assessment
How much
(quantities and
cost)
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To whom will we
give it
Can we deliver
cash
How will we give
it (together)
What are the
protectionrelated risks and
benefits
Programme
Design
Operational
Feasibility
What does the
government
think
How much will
we give
Grant Design
What it the
specific objective
How will cash
needs change
over time and
space
What can people
make up on their
own
Do we have the
capacity to do
our part
What other
assistance is
being provided
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December
Prices
November
January
February
MEB
Predictable monthly
household needs (rent,
food, sanitation and
hygiene items)
October
March
Unpredictable shocks to
income/consumption
(population
movements, policy
changes)
Predictable regular and
one-off seasonal needs
(seeds and tools, school
supplies, winter clothes,
winter energy costs, dry
season water costs)
Cash
needs
September
April
August
Crisis or recovery
sector-specific needs
(shelter materials,
livelihood inputs,
emergency medical
care)
July
June
May
Availability
MPG Transfer Value
700.00
600.00
500.00
Education
GAP
400.00
300.00
Communication
Transportation
MEB
200.00
Health
Clothes
Water
WASH
100.00
Shelter (rent)
0.00
Food
Seeds/Tools (one off)
100.00
200.00
Needs
Available
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PART 3. RESPONSE DESIGN AND
PLANNING
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How will we
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What is the
impact of the
crisis
Who needs what
Can it be
acquired locally
by paying for it
How and what
will we monitor
How will we
work with
government
Programme
Implementation
Needs
Assessment
How much
(quantities and
cost)
S
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&
To whom will we
give it
Can we deliver
cash
How will we give
it (together)
What are the
protectionrelated risks and
benefits
Programme
Design
Operational
Feasibility
What does the
government
think
How much will
we give
Grant Design
What it the
specific objective
How will cash
needs change
over time and
space
What can people
make up on their
own
Do we have the
capacity to do
our part
What other
assistance is
being provided
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1) Context & programme
objectives
2) Key stakeholders' roles and
responsibilities
3) Targeting strategy: determining
eligibility
4) Selected or preferred delivery
mechanisms and financial
service providers
5) Implementation procedures
6) Programme quality
7) Exit strategies
Part 3.1 Common Targeting Approaches
Consult
stakeholders
Choose
methods/mechani
sms based on
SWOT analysis
Re-assess and
update
Monitor, evaluate,
adjust
Define/fine-tune
eligibility criteria
Find those
eligible and define
preliminary lists
Distribute
Review and
adjust lists
Sensitisation and two-way communication throughout process
Part 3.2 Common Delivery Approaches
CDA: Principles
• Intent is to make the same delivery services
available to the maximum number of agencies.
• Timeliness.
• Cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness gains.
• User-friendliness from both a beneficiary and
agency perspective.
• The ability to meet agency and donor
accountability, traceability and reporting
requirements.
PART 5. COORDINATION
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What is the
impact of the
crisis
How will we
phase out
Who needs what
Can it be
acquired locally
by paying for it
How and what
will we monitor
How will we
work with
government
Programme
Implementation
Needs
Assessment
How much
(quantities and
cost)
S
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&
To whom will we
give it
Can we deliver
cash
Coordination and
Preparedness
How will we give
it (together)
Programme
Design
Operational
Feasibility
What are the
protectionrelated risks and
benefits
What does the
government
think
How much will
we give
Grant Design
What it the
specific objective
How will cash
needs change
over time and
space
What can people
make up on their
own
Do we have the
capacity to do
our part
What other
assistance is
being provided
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STRATEGIC COORDINATION
Strategic Coordination
Response Analysis
(cash for what?)
Links relief, recovery
and development
Fundraising &
advocacy with
government/donors
Coordination between
cash interventions and
among cash & in-kind
interventions : (are
needs being met?)
Unified approaches to
achieve scale/costefficiencies and
effectiveness
Technical Coordination
Multi-sector market
assessments (RAF)
Demonstrating impact (common
M&E, Value for Money)
Common understanding of need
and where cash appropriate
(MEB/gap analysis/transfer rate)
Common design for costefficiencies/effectiveness (targeting,
delivery mechanisms)
MULTIPURPOSE CASH GRANT
Water and
Sanitation
Livelihoods
Shelter
Core relief
items
Protection
Health
Food
Security
Education