Chiranjibi, Sittwe, Rakhine, Myanmar -23 March 2023.
When I am
formulating the title of this blog post, I am thinking about my own happiness (!), I am
remembering a few days ago world happiness day, my country's rank is 84, and
where I am working is 126. The ranks are focused on different indicators, I am
looking to my work and local context with the team, and how we could contribute the bricks of happiness in the individual household, people, and their families.
Cash disbursement for 504 households with conditional cash grant (CCG) @ 300,000 MMK ($143) divided into two installments since the team ware waiting to support small businesses and livelihood for targeted households.
Cash-based interventions transfer resources to the targeted people in two main ways – by providing them directly with cash or by giving them vouchers. As an above intervention, we did all cash-only modes of disbursement where individual cash as physical and community/group cash through the bank transfer. The concern – is how our preparedness, building ownership, and monitoring mechanism work in the context. Red Cross has been using Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) approaches as an instrumental tool. Targeted communities used the supported grant to get their own choice of small business to invest as a starter fund, in the local market and it gave them a chance to save time – our approaches have been ensuring beneficiaries' accountability, and dignity by promoting CEA approaches.
Cash transfer/modalities are means of support to people, groups, and communities as part of the humanitarian response including sectoral interventions with community ownership and their own right: cash is simply an instrumental tool that can be used – when appropriate – to meet objectives in particular contexts and sectors of response. We did the same with the number of activities connected to the communities either individual or groups.
Conditional cash grant for:
ü Start-up small business
ü Eco-cooking Stove
ü Household latrine construction
ü Kitchen garden
ü Returnees’ food support
ü Community mitigation activities (group)
ü Women group revolving fund for income generation activities (IGA)
ü Community drinking water/Schools drinking water/ Water point Renovation.
ü School WASH intervention (latrine and water supply)
ü Community level Red Cross Volunteers – income generation activities (IGA)
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Key steps
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The participatory process of beneficiary
verifications
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Visits to community/beneficiaries with beneficiary
selection criteria.
Feedback from committee validation
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Final List of Beneficiaries
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The final list of beneficiaries is shared with committees
for feedback – validation.
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Beneficiary registration, business plan, and
its orientation – finally short business plan/investment plan
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Business plan orientation, mapping of livelihood
options proposed by beneficiaries, agreement, data collection, beneficiary
profile, Household economic analysis, baseline, and investment plan call
business plan with beneficiaries, technical training.
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Disbursement of Cash
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Disbursement of cash as physical cash (FSP) or
group’s bank transfer – inform to the community.
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Monitoring as call - PDM
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Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) depends on conditional cash.
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Note: the grant amount based on the interventions (groups more than 100, individual households more than 2000) as given local currency as $1=2100MMK.
Red Cross: I am working with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), seconded by British Red Cross (BRC) in Myanmar since October 2021 as a Project Manager for Community Resilience Project (CRP), implemented by the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS). CRP is an integrated project with Food Security and Livelihoods, Community Based Disaster Risk Mitigation, WASH, Climate Change Adaptation, Community Empowerment, and Community Health. Yes, my affiliation with Red Cross and I am updating my personal blog as presenting my own blog article. As reflecting my own view for humanitarian service and support to the targeted area and population with an innovative approach. Red Cross visibility always helps me/us to build acceptance, own confidence, protection, and inform others – as "Red Cross workers". Red Cross is not only an organization, it is a perception, a way of thinking, and a positive beavering. I salute the Red Cross's visibility and its acceptance globally.
Thank you, Dhanyabad, Namaskar, Mingalaba, ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည်
