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Working with Markets and Cash:

Standard operating procedures.
Cash Transfer Programme cycle management
Consider: preparedness Consider: Assessment and design
Have you completed the preparedness steps? Have you done the CTP risk assessment?
Have you completed the needs assessment (separately Do you have a baseline (including market baseline)?
with women and men) Is there a gender and social relations analysis in country?
Are markets and security assessment done? Is the humanitarian team (including local partners and
Have you made a decision cash and/or in-kind affiliates) trained to design and implement CTP?
(or combination of both)? Do you have access to recent partner capacity
Have you selected a CTP modality (or combination)? assessments?
Have you selected a payment mechanism and instrument? Are you or partners monitoring the market?
Do you have a complete CTP core team for implementing Are you part of any coordination mechanisms that can
CTPs (i.e PM, Logs, Fin and Prog)? potentially lead on CTP coordination?
Have you communicated the decision to your team, Do you have a list of potential third party for CTPs and have
community and local authorities and other affiliates? you worked out any pre agreements with them?
Do you have access to learning from previous CTPs in the
Have you decided the implementation framework? Will
country?
Oxfam be operational or work through partners?
Do you have stocks of vouchers, sample contracts/
Have you included all justifications and necessary costs MOUs etc?
(including HQ and regional support costs) in your proposal?
Have you developed and set up MEAL and Exit plans?
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Are all stakeholders aware of your exit plans? Have you identified and contracted a third party?
Have you thought of linking the CTP with other sectors/for Have you selected criteria for targeting the beneficiaries,
the long-term programmes/resilience building? communicated to them and registered them?
Is the previous CTP documented and what is the Have you consulted and explained the process and use of
dissemination plan? selected delivery mechanism and intended outcomes to
beneficiaries?
Have you prepared your final narrative and financial report?
Have you joined a CTP coordination forum or initiated one?
Has the evaluation been done and what is the feedback
from women and men beneficiaries? Do you have a complete and trained team in place?
How will the learning of this project feed into contingency Do you have a focal point for cross-cutting issues ie. gender,
plans security?
Are all your team members clear about their responsibilities
during CTP distribution?
Have you set up a community feedback mechanism?
Have you selected an appropriate and safe location for cash
consider: MONITORING AND EVALUATION distribution (relevant for direct or partially direct distribution)
Have you set up a confidential complaint mechanism that
can be easily accessed by women and men?
Have you budgeted for a mid-term review and/or RTE?
Are you monitoring the market, analysing and feeding back
the information regularly?
Have you identified process and outcome indicators for
the MEAL
Does the Post distribution monitoring suggest a change in
strategy?

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Produced by Hlne Juillard and Nupur Kukrety, Oxfam GB October 2013