What you will learn
- Distinguish between the modalities (cash, vouchers, in-kind assistance) and the conditions under which each is appropriate.
- Analyse feasibility: markets, risks, acceptance, delivery mechanisms.
- Design and monitor a programme: targeting, transfer value, distribution, post-distribution monitoring and market monitoring.
Course information
- Level
- Beginner to intermediate
- Study time
- 12 hours over 2 days (lessons, case studies, exercises)
- Format
- Online, at your own pace, free and unlimited access
- Assessment
- Daily quizzes + final exam of 20 randomly drawn questions (30 min, pass mark 70%)
- Credential
- Named, numbered certificate of achievement, verifiable online (QR code)
- Reference frameworks
- CALP Network · CALP Network · Sphere Association
Programme
- Day1Understanding and designing a cash transfer programmeWhy cash transfers? · The modalities · Market analysis and feasibility · Setting the transfer value Scenario: Cash or food?
- Day2Implementing, managing risks and monitoringTargeting and registration · Payments · Monitoring and accountability Scenario: Payment day
- Final assessment and certificate20 questions · 70% to pass · 3 attempts per 24 hours
Who is it for?
Food security, protection or shelter programme officers, cash officers, MEAL, finance and logistics staff involved in cash transfer programmes.
The certificate
With at least 70% correct answers in the final assessment, you receive a certificate in your name, with a unique code that recruiters can verify on Humanitaires Jobs. A free Members area account is required.
Key concepts
The vocabulary you need to master for this course and the exam.
- MPCA
- Multipurpose cash assistance to cover several basic needs.
- Minimum expenditure basket (MEB)
- The monthly cost of a household's essential goods and services.
- Conditionality
- An action to be carried out in order to receive assistance (for example, sending a child to school).
- Restriction
- A limitation on the use of the assistance received (for example, food vouchers).
- Mobile money
- Payment by mobile phone through an operator and its agents.
- Price monitoring
- Regular recording of prices to adjust the value of transfers.
- Payment reconciliation
- Comparison of approved lists, payments and withdrawals.
- rCSI
- Reduced Coping Strategies Index, a food security indicator.
References and recommended reading
The official texts and sector reference works on which the course is based.
- CALP Network (2024). CALP Network library and standards (Cash Learning Partnership). www.calpnetwork.org/fr
- CALP Network (2017). Minimum Standard for Market Analysis (MISMA). www.calpnetwork.org
- Sphere Association (2018). The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response. spherestandards.org/fr/manuel-2018
- CALP / Cash working groups (2019). Minimum Expenditure Basket: guidance document. www.calpnetwork.org