AGREE Increasing the use HPD and PTS have Guidance note (d) establishing of cash transfer begun exploring on cash mechanisms and programming as opportunities to transfer relationships so that an important increase humanitarian programming cash transfer mechanism for cash interventions in revised in 2017 supporting the Pacific, including a programming can affected feasibility scoping gradually start to be used populations is a study by the Cash as a more standard key commitment of Learning Partnership feature of humanitarian Australia’s in 2016. responses in the Pacific. Humanitarian HPD is using existing Strategy and our humanitarian funding international mechanisms commitments (multilateral and NGO) through the Grand and deployable Bargain on capacity programs to humanitarian support the use of funding reform. cash-based We recognise that interventions in PICs, mechanisms to including training, achieve these country dialogue and commitments at research. scale need to be in HPD and PTS will place before the update a guidance onset of a disaster. note on cash transfer programming to accompany Australia’s humanitarian and social protection strategies. Recommendation 3 DFAT should work to further bridge the humanitarian-development divide by: (a) identifying prior to a DFAT notes that DFAT Pacific posts HPD, CVB and AGREE response the strengths the scope, nature will continue to PAD will seek and relationships within and timing of monitor and assess to prepare the bilateral program that implementation of the strengths of guidance on can be leveraged in a this bilateral program surge funding humanitarian response recommendation partners, while also options for and incorporating surge will be considering their contracts and funding capacity into In potential to contribute agreements in bilateral contracts. particular, the to a humanitarian 2017 possibility to response. incorporate surge
(d) establishing mechanisms and relationships so that cash transfer programming can gradually start to be used as a more standard feature of humanitarian responses in the Pacific. AGREE Increasing the use of cash transfer programming as an important mechanism for supporting affected populations is a key commitment of Australia’s Humanitarian Strategy and our international commitments through the Grand Bargain on humanitarian funding reform. We recognise that mechanisms to achieve these commitments at scale need to be in place before the onset of a disaster. HPD and PTS have begun exploring opportunities to increase humanitarian cash interventions in the Pacific, including a feasibility scoping study by the Cash Learning Partnership in 2016. HPD is using existing humanitarian funding mechanisms (multilateral and NGO) and deployable capacity programs to support the use of cash-based interventions in PICs, including training, dialogue and research. HPD and PTS will update a guidance note on cash transfer programming to accompany Australia’s humanitarian and social protection strategies. Guidance note on cash transfer programming revised in 2017 Recommendation 3 DFAT should work to further bridge the humanitarian-development divide by: (a) identifying prior to a response the strengths and relationships within the bilateral program that can be leveraged in a humanitarian response and incorporating surge funding capacity into bilateral contracts. AGREE DFAT notes that the scope, nature and timing of implementation of this recommendation will be In particular, the possibility to incorporate surge DFAT Pacific posts will continue to monitor and assess the strengths of bilateral program partners, while also considering their potential to contribute to a humanitarian response. HPD, CVB and PAD will seek to prepare guidance on surge funding options for contracts and agreements in 2017 country
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