UNHCR Presentation

GROUP MEMBERS
Junaid Abbasi FA16-BBA-104

Zeryab Gul FA16-BBA-122
Nabiha Amin FA16-BBA-134
Kainat Irshad FA16-BBA-125
Umair Ali FA16-BBA-101
Introduction 3
 Why Cash is important?

 What is Multipurpose cash program?
 What is the methodology behind it?
This case study in Afghanistan by UNHCR is to investigate the

contribution of multipurpose cash assistance in meeting sectoral
outcomes.
Sectoral Outcomes? 4
WASH AND HEALTH AND FOOD AND

SHELTER LIVELIHOODS EDUCTION
ENERGY AND
ENVIRONMEN SECURITY
T
Multipurpose Cash in 5
Afghanistan
Cash Grant is a “protection tool that provides the means to meet basic needs in the
first phase upon return and the freedom of choice to determine a family’s
priorities”
How cash is
delivered?
•Delivered to eligible documented returnees at one of the four UNHCR encashment in

Afghanistan. 400 USD per person.
•Given to the head of the household in USD, through a Money Service Provider.
• A range of complementary services and awareness-raising activities are provided free of
charge to returnees at encashment centers.
Other Multipurpose Cash Programmes in Afghanistan 6
Since 2011, European Civil Protection

and Humanitarian Aid Operations has
been funding a rapid-response
mechanism implemented by seven
INGOs to meet the emergency food,
shelter/NFIs, protection and WASH
needs of internally displaced persons
(IDPs) affected by conflict or natural
disasters across Afghanistan
•Survival Minimum Expenditure Basket (SMEB), is expected to provide

guidance in the determination of the cash value.
•IOM supports undocumented returnees from Pakistan and Iran with
cash assistance aiming at meeting cross-sectoral needs.
•The cash has two components, transportation and non-food items.
Value of the UNHCR Voluntary 7
Repatriation Cash Grant
 What was the main goal?

 How could UNHCR measure the effectiveness of the programme?
The value of any cash transfer – whether multipurpose should be tied to the
objectives of the program.
For a cash program that seeks to address basic needs, such as the repatriation
grant, the value should be determined on the basis of how much a household
requires in order to meet a set of basic needs
 More explicitly linking program objectives with the cash value through the development of a MEB
 The doubling of the transfer to an average of 400 USD per individual to address multiple
challenges
 ERM partners have recently developed a SMEB to guide calculations of multipurpose cash
assistance to IDPs ensuring the method is aligned with a number of Cluster Standards (e.g. food,
shelter and NFI). UNHCR provided inputs into this exercise.
Monitoring of the Repatriation 8
Cash Grant
• Face to Face interviews.

• Conducted at Voluntary Repatriation
Interviews Centers in Asylum and encashment
centers.
• Conducted after one to three months

Telephone after return
• To explore cash expenditures and
call surveys people’s situation upon return
Overcoming Challenges in 9
Monitoring
These steps were very important to take
UNHCR pointed two main steps that since returnees were scattered across the
have been taken in this regard of country, particularly in urban/peri-urban
tracing the returnees. areas and regions outside the government
control.
1: SIM CARD
Challenges in tracking undocumented
2: Inter Agency Information center. returnees
Problems and
Solutions
Inter Agency Information center SIM CARD!
toll-free humanitarian helpline Sustained advocacy by UNHCR since 2016 has
aiming to provide two-way resulted in an agreement with the GoA where
returnees can obtain a SIM card using the
communication betweeen agencies Voluntary Repatriation Form instead of the tazkira.
and beneficiaries/host communities.
Multipurpose cash and 10
protection
Kind of Attitude
towards Returnees.
Noor Khuda
Example
Problems regarding
multipurpose cash
protection.
Multipurpose cash and Sectoral 11
Outcomes
 The voluntary cash grant is defined as:
“A protection tool that provides the means to meet basic needs in the
first,phase upon return and the freedom of choice to determine a
family’s priorities.”
Multipurpose cash and 12
Sectoral Outcomes
 The value of the cash grant has been gradually increased
over the years to adjust changes in commodity prices and
inflation rates.
 The repatriation cash grant has helped Afghan returnees

from Pakistan to meet a number of basic needs upon return.
The cash grant is used for transportation costs, to buy food
and address important shelter needs, thus contributing to
aspects of reintegration.
Food Security 13
 Returnee monitoring reports indicate that the bulk of the

repatriation cash grant is spent on food, but no additional
information is provided on related food security gains.
Livelihoods 14
 UNHCR has focused livelihood activities as a way to mitigate

protection risks, and on strengthening linkages between
humanitarian and development programming through
partnerships.
Shelter 15
 The repatriation cash grant has made important contributions to

shelter needs:
 Enabling returnee beneficiaries to rent a home upon return
 Buy land
 Construct houses
Energy and Environment 16
 Part of the repatriation cash grant has been used by

beneficiaries who returned during winter months in 2016 to
buy fuel for heating and warm clothes.
 The repatriation cash grant is used for energy need. People
spend approximately 100 USD per month on their energy and
fuel usage and this consumption increases in winters.
Wash 17
 A small part of the repatriation cash grant has been used in

some returnee households to address the specific hygiene
needs of women and girls as well as for the entire family.
Health 18
 Health was not a widespread expenditure among returnees
interviewed; only a very small number reported having used the
bulk of cash to address health needs.
Education 19
 UNHCR cash grant could have been a source of providing

education easily but:
 Distance to public school and entrenched gendernorms were
found to be key barriers of access to education that the
repatriation cash grant has been unable to equalize.
Education 20
 Information about the importance of education is provided at

encashment centers through the provision of leaflets and brief
discussions with parents and children, as part of the “back to
school” campaign.
 UNHCR is playing its part to educate people about the
importance of education.
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Conclusion
 The repatriation cash grant has helped Afghan returnees to meet a

number of basic needs across several sectors.
 Shelter needs were found to be prioritized by many, with the cash grant
having been used to buy land or rent or construct homes, therefore
positively contributing to a key aspect of reintegration.
 Providing part of the cash grant as start-up capital (for some) could also
be explored as a more effective way to ensure livelihood outcomes.
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GROUP MEMBERS

Junaid Abbasi FA16-BBA-104

 Why Cash is important?

This case study in Afghanistan by UNHCR is to investigate the

WASH AND HEALTH AND FOOD AND

•Delivered to eligible documented returnees at one of the four UNHCR encashment in

Since 2011, European Civil Protection

•Survival Minimum Expenditure Basket (SMEB), is expected to provide

 What was the main goal?

• Face to Face interviews.

• Conducted after one to three months

 The repatriation cash grant has helped Afghan returnees

 Returnee monitoring reports indicate that the bulk of the

 UNHCR has focused livelihood activities as a way to mitigate

 The repatriation cash grant has made important contributions to

 Part of the repatriation cash grant has been used by

 A small part of the repatriation cash grant has been used in

 UNHCR cash grant could have been a source of providing

 Information about the importance of education is provided at

 The repatriation cash grant has helped Afghan returnees to meet a

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