2.1 Cash for Protection Programme Coordination
The Coordinator will:
- Lead the planning and coordination of Cash for Protection activities across the consortium.
- Develop and maintain a Cash for Protection implementation plan.
- Ensure consistency in Cash for Protection approaches, tools and procedures
- Track progress against Cash for Protection targets and agreed milestones.
- Ensure that Cash for Protection is appropriately integrated into the broader protection response.
- Participate in relevant programme coordination and technical meetings.
2.2 Cash for protection technical leadership
The Coordinator will provide technical guidance on the design and delivery of Cash for Protection interventions, including:
- Ensure that cash assistance is based on clearly identified and documented protection risks.
- Support development and application of appropriate eligibility and vulnerability criteria.
- Ensure that referrals for Cash for Protection are assessed using agreed protection and cash vulnerability criteria.
- Promote transparent, objective and consistent beneficiary selection processes.
- Ensure that targeting does not expose individuals or households to additional protection risks.
- Ensure that inclusion and accessibility considerations are incorporated into targeting.
- Establishing clear referral pathways between case management and Cash for Protection.
- Supporting case workers to identify cases where cash may contribute to addressing an identified protection risk.
- Ensuring that cash decisions are documented within appropriate case management processes.
2.3 Cash assistance delivery
The Coordinator will oversee the safe and effective delivery of cash assistance, including:
- Coordination with Finance and relevant financial service providers.
- Verification of approved beneficiaries before payment.
- Ensuring appropriate payment mechanisms are used.
- Monitoring payment processes.
- Identifying and resolving payment-related challenges.
- Supporting mechanisms to minimise duplication and fraud.
- Ensuring beneficiaries receive clear information regarding payment amounts, timing and procedures.
- Ensuring appropriate documentation of payments.
- Monitoring access barriers affecting persons with disabilities, older persons and other vulnerable groups.
- Supporting contingency arrangements where payment mechanisms fail.
- Support in conducting Post distribution Monitoring
The Coordinator will work closely with finance teams and partners while maintaining appropriate segregation of duties and internal controls.
