Social protection is at the centre of Ethiopia’s development policy. It is instrumental in reducing poverty and … increasing the resilience of the population. The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has published a new set of policy frameworks for … between humanitarian relief and social protection spending. …

and humanitarian cash transfers. However, it argues that, in order to preserve the humanitarian imperative ‘to do no harm …Recent years have seen a rise in the use of cash-based assistance but whilst humanitarian contexts lend themselves well … to the digitisation of aid, cash assistance remains a very small part of humanitarian aid. This white paper examines how …