Vulnerability and Protection of Refugees in Turkey : Findings from the Rollout of the Largest Humanitarian Cash Assistance Program in the World
Vulnerability and Protection of Refugees in Turkey: Findings from the Rollout of the Largest Humanitarian Cash Assistance Program in the World assesses the targeting performance and benefit level design of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) pro...
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World Bank and World Food Programme
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/298891560175692951/Vulnerability-and-Protection-of-Refugees-in-Turkey-Findings-from-the-Rollout-of-the-Largest-Humanitarian-Cash-Assistance-Program-in-the-World http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31813 |
| Summary: | Vulnerability and Protection of Refugees
in Turkey: Findings from the Rollout of the Largest
Humanitarian Cash Assistance Program in the World assesses
the targeting performance and benefit level design of the
Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) program for refugees in
Turkey. It also provides a comprehensive look at the
vulnerability of ESSN eligible households using a
multidimensional lens, drawing from novel representative
data. The ESSN provides monthly cash transfers to help the
most vulnerable refugees meet their basic needs, and
complement Turkey’s response to the crisis. With near 4
million refugees, Turkey hosts more refugees than any other
country in the world. The program is funded by the European
Union member states, and implemented nationwide in
partnership with the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social
Services, the World Food Programme, and the Turkish Red
Crescent. The study finds that the vulnerabilities of the
ESSN refugee population are multiple and complex. Refugees
in the ESSN program suffer from a shortage of resources
today, but also resort to coping strategies that cripple
their resource-generating capacity tomorrow. The ESSN
targeting criteria are relatively effective in selecting the
most vulnerable refugees, but exclude a share of the poor.
This issue is starting to get addressed by decentralized
allowances targeted with community-level information. The
ESSN cash transfer value is found to be adequate to support
basic needs. An untargeted design would have minimized
exclusion errors, but would reach everybody with smaller
transfers, insufficient to meet basic needs. Future analysis
will focus on the impact of the transfers on household welfare. |
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