Yashodhan Ghorpade POLICY SEMINAR Impacts of Cash Transfers on Preventing Malnutrition in Yemen Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) SEP 5, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT

1. The Yemen ECRP Cash for
Nutrition Program –
Reflections on Partnership
Modalities
Yashodhan Ghorpade
September 05, 2019

2. Conflict, Poverty and Development
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• Concentration of poverty in FCV countries
• Intra-state conflict in increasingly common
• Cyclical nature of conflict – fragility may matter as much/ more
than violence
• Conflict exacerbates the development gap – focus on human
capital (beyond poverty)
WB’s Explicit focus on FCV countries for global poverty reduction
(WDR 2011)

3. Challenges of operating in FCV environments
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Safety
Limited Reach (Ghorpade, forthcoming)
Unclear Governance Structures (Justino and Stojetz, 2018)
Exacerbated Elite Capture
Diversion/ Corruption
Creating further conflict? (Beath et al., 2017; Crost and Johnston, 2014; Nunn and Qian,
2014; Nielsen et al., 2011; Justino, 2011; Berman et al., 2009; Beath et al., 2012; Sexton 2016)
Sustainability (?)

4. The Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project
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Multi-sectoral, development-focused Emergency project
During ongoing conflict
Partnership – with national institutions and humanitarian agencies
Impressive results in a challenging setting:
• 1.4 million households receive targeted unconditional CT
• ~ 300,000 women and children benefit from nutrition support and services
• ~ 350,000 beneficiaries of short term wage employment
• 3.4 million in/direct beneficiaries of key services
Main project + 4R of Additional Financing (~ US$ 850 Mn)

5. 9/5/2019
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6. Advantages of the ECRP model and Partnership with SFD
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Capacity
Alliance-building / Partnership
Presence
True and Perceived Neutrality
Autonomy
Innovation and Adaptability
Navigating local Terrain
Stake – pre, as well as post-conflict

7. Advantages of the ECRP model and Partnership with SFD
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Capacity
Alliance-building / Partnership
Presence
True and Perceived Neutrality
Autonomy
Innovation and Adaptability
Navigating local Terrain
Stake – pre, as well as post-conflict

8. Continuing Constraints
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• WB presence in-country
• Reliance on TPM, innovative monitoring using social media, geo-tagging
• Dynamic conflict
• Uncertain planning horizon
• Need for flexibility
• Weak evidence base due to limited data availability
• Cash for Nutrition IE an exception, extremely useful for informing scale-up
and future design parameters

9. Thank you!
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