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Blog Post
November 25, 2015
Overseas development assistance amounts to about $135 billion dollars annually, but the cost of paying for the Sustainable Development Goals will be in the trillions. As a result, blended finance is something of a buzz phrase these days. I left a workshop on blended finance last week in Paris excite...
Blog Post
August 31, 2015
There’s a growing consensus that humanitarian cash transfers can help to bridge the widening gap between needs and resources, empowering people affected by disaster and using local markets to deliver the goods and services we previously thought only aid agencies could provide.
Multimedia
August 29, 2015
The 368 programs about which we know both the type of budget and how the cash transfer was made represent $750 million (of the $2.8 billion) worth of programs. Of this, less than 5 percent, nearly $37 million, is for ‘cash only’ programs that delivered unconditional transfers.