Donors and governments are urgently asking: Is cash equally effective in protracted crises, where conflict and insecurity are pervasive, markets and livelihoods are broken and state capacity to respond is limited? Can cash assistance be designed to both protect against the immediate effects of protracted crises and build resilience to future shocks, thereby reducing future humanitarian need? Speci. [...] The effects of the cash transfers on productive assets and employment did not translate into additional income for recipient households during the period of the study. [...] Donors and governments should act to sustain and scale the gains of effective humanitarian cash transfer interventions in protracted crises. [...] Transfers can offer recipients more time to attend livelihood training, more cognitive bandwidth to absorb and apply the knowledge delivered, and more confidence to productively invest human and financial capital without repeatedly diverting both to secure regular access to basic needs. [...] Receiving the cash does not have to be conditional to training participation; however, timing the training delivery on the day of cash distribution can harness the benefits of increased cognitive bandwidth while also reducing the time and cost of participants’ travel.
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