This report presents the findings of the monitoring exercise
undertaken by the Somalia Cash and Voucher Monitoring Group
(CVMG) from September 2011 to March 2012 of the first phase
of cash and voucher transfers. CVMG partners included 14 nongovernmental
organisations (NGOs) (six international NGOs
and eight local NGO partners) that implemented various cash
and commodity voucher projects in response to famine and
severe food insecurity. Between them, these NGOs distributed
$50.6 million-worth of cash and vouchers to a total of 136,673
beneficiary households across nine regions of South Central
Somalia, including 94,699 cash beneficiaries and 41,974 voucher
beneficiaries.3 Fifty-three percent of beneficiaries were located
in parts of the country controlled by the Transitional Federal
Government (TFG), and 47% were in areas controlled by the
Islamist group, Al Shabaab (AS). The intervention represents
the first large-scale cash-based response4 to be implemented
in Somalia, and – at a global level – the first non-governmental
emergency cash-based programme on this scale.
