2.4: Can Cash Make the Humanitarian System More Accountable?

12/07/23 • 25 min

CashCast: A podcast from the CALP Network

In this episode we explore accountability issues within the humanitarian system, their root causes and potential solutions. We ask if cash and voucher assistance has a part to play in improving accountability, and what that could look like.Host: Karen Peachey
Guests: Caroline Teti, Innocent Tshilombo, Meg Sattler, Christina Bennet, and Laura Walker

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2.3: Is Cash the Key to More People Centred Aid?

What does people-centered aid look like in practice, particularly when we think about cash and voucher assistance? What makes people centred aid different or is just a new buzz phrase? Have we been here before?
Host: Karen Peachey
Guests: Innocent Tshilombo, Caroline Teti and Meg Sattler

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2.5: Is Large-scale Cash Compatible with Locally Led Response?

This episode challenges the idea that locally led response and large-scale CVA are incompatible. We explore the myths around local actors and the barriers to further progress.
Host: Karen Peachey

Guests: Ahmed Ibrahim, Chris Hoffman, and Christina Bennet

CashCast: A podcast from the CALP Network - 2.4: Can Cash Make the Humanitarian System More Accountable?

Transcript

Karen Peachey: Hello, I'm Karen Peachey and you're listening to CashCast. In our last episode, we looked at people centered aid. Throughout that episode, one thing that really stuck out was that we're not listening to people receiving aid, or if we are listening, we're not always acting on what they say. That's something Caroline Tetti, the Director of Recipient Advocacy at GiveDirectly talked about,

Caroline Tetti: We sit in boardrooms, we design progr