C The Cash Learning Partnership THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CASH REPORT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The report was commissioned by the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP) and delivered by a team of CTP experts, CaLP staff and Accenture Development Partnerships. RESEARCH & WRITING TEAM — Gabrielle Smith (lead) — Ruth McCormack — Alex Jacobs — Arushi Chopra — Aarsh Vir Gupta — Thomas Abell We are extremely grateful to the many contributors and collaborators who so generously shared their time and experience, to build up this common picture of the state of the world’s cash transfer programming in humanitarian aid. In particular, we would like to thank the members of the Steering Committee for their expert guidance throughout the process, and Abigael Baldoumas (CaLP) for her valuable support in editing and finalizing the report and leading the communications planning. STEERING COMMITTEE Louisa Seferis (Danish Refugee Council), Paula Gil Baizan (formerly World Vision International), Paul Harvey (independent), David Peppiatt (British Red Cross), Emily Henderson (UK DFID), Kenn Crossley (World Food Programme), Gabriel Fernandez (Government of Liberia), Kalinda Glenn-Haley (USAID/OFDA), Ruco van der Merwe (USAID/FFP), Isabelle Pelly (CaLP), Claire Mariani (UNICEF) Many thanks also to the members of CaLP’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and others who reviewed the draft report, and those who reviewed and provided inputs to the case studies, including Karen Peachey (CaLP), Nynne Warring (WFP Somalia), Dalia Sbeih (Solidarites Lebanon), Dina Morad and Jonathan Campbell (WFP Turkey), Gabriele Erba (ex-UNICEF DR Congo), Iraz Oyku Soylap and Qimti Paienjton (UNICEF Turkey), Jasmine Jahromi and Jenny Weatherall (Lebanon Cash Consortium), Sophie Tholstrup (OCHA), and Sophie Pongracz and Tom Russell (DFID Lebanon). Alexandra Spencer and Cat Langdon from Development Initiatives provided essential advisory support and access to data to enable the calculation of the 2016 CTP expenditure estimate. The report was funded by: the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the British Red Cross, the World Food Programme, as well as CaLP’s general funds. The views expressed in this publication are the authors’ alone and are not necessarily the views of the donors. Cover photo: WFP/Kiyori Ueno