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Table 12.1 Spending of the cash received in cash transfers

Project Spending

A 2003-2004 emergency cash grant in Sool/
Sanaag, Somalia by Horn Relief and NPA

Debt, food, water, medicine, soap and transport

A cash-for-work project in Meket and Wallo,
Ethiopia, by Save the Children (2001)

food, secondhand clothes, basic necessities, farm tools,
seed, chickens, and repaying loans

Cash-for-work project by Ethiopian Red Cross
Society/International Federation of Red Cross in
Ethiopia in 2000-01

Cheap food grains, petty trade, and debt repayment

Cash payments as part of an agricultural
rehabilitation package implemented by the Red
Cross in Guatemala and Nicaragua after
Hurricane Mitch in 1998

Mainly food, medicines, agricultural inputs, chickens,
pigs and tools

Cash as part of a repatriation package in
Cambodia in1992-93

Mainly building materials, land, or housing plots
to establish small businesses, assist relatives in
income-generating activities, and find family members.

Cash-for-work programs by Oxfam in Kitgum,
Uganda, 2001

Food, livestock, basic household utensils, school fees

Oxfam, cash-for-work, Turkana, 2000-03 Food not in the relief ration, debts, school fees;

lump-sum payments tended to be used to buy
productive assets such as livestock, stock for shops, and
donkey carting

Oxfam in Bangladesh, 2001 Food, debts, school expenses, clothes, livestock, and

fertilizer

Cash grant program in response to the 1999-00
floods in Mozambique

Household goods, food, clothes, seeds, construction
materials, and livestock

Cash grants following1999-00 floods in
Mozambique

Household goods, clothes, livestock, food, seed, and
construction materials

Cash-for-work in Zambia, 2002, by HODI
(a Zambian nongovernmental organization)

Maize, grain grinding, basic essentials (salt, sugar,
soap, matches), vegetable seeds, investment in small
businesses

Save the Children cash-for-work in Democratic
Republic of Congo

Women reported that men spent cash on gifts, debt
repayments, and beer. Women spent the money on
food,school fees and household items

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
cash grants in Mongolia, 2002

The money was spent mostly on animals (50%) and on
food, clothes, housing repair, and debt repayment

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
cash grants in Moldova,2003

Food, medicine, clothing, heating, land tilling, seeds,
paying land tax, and debt repayments

Source : Harvey (2005)