Meet our team:
Mercy Corps
AED
Oxfam America
Capital for Crisis
In response to the global food crisis, our emergency response solution is to distribute cash, in local currencies, to areas where there are existing supplies of food that have soaring prices which prevent people from being able to purchase it. By providing cash instead of simply engaging in tradition forms of food distribution, we will stimulate local economies across the globe. This idea has been tested by Oxfam, and evidence shows that recipients of this money will spend it on food, rather than frivolous items. Distribution of funds will take place through the global offices of the three member organizations in the alliance. This alliance will also dispatch workers and volunteers around the globe to monitor hunger in local communities. We will aggregate this data and present it via innovative webtools so that donors around the world can visualize the need, in real time, and respond accordingly. The Capital for Crisis initiative is a collaboration between Oxfam
America, Academy for Educational Development, and MercyCorps.
Roles:
Oxfam will lead a global awareness campaign and fundraise money
AED will monitor equitable distribution and educate the public about what/why we are doing with low literacy brochures
Mercy will distribute and implement the program
Partnership Strategy Matrix
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Activity
Domains
(List all)
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Emergency Response Cash Distribution
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Hunger Radar Food Crisis Information Database
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Global Fund Raising and Awareness Campaign
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Distribution of cash to areas where food is available but prices are prohibitive
Low literacy brochures and seminars for local population to explain what we are doing and why
Security at distribution centers
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Regular collection of data to monitor evaluate and make necessary changes
Adapt the 'Afrobarometer' model to measure hunger in at-risk communities around the globe.
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Launch of global awareness and fund raising campaign on our approach to the food crisis
Website with information on hunger threats in the world
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Actors
(List and describe)
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Oxfam will lead a global awareness campaign, fund raise and manage Hunger Radar website
AED will monitor equitable distribution, educate the public about our approach and collect data for the website
Mercy will manage the logistical implementation of the program
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Process Factors
(Typically 3-5
factors)
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empower communities
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efficiency
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evaluating and monitoring
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Empower the community to make educated expenditures and stimulate local economies
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Efficiency within the organizational structure and practice of distribution. Cash is simply more efficient than food donations.
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Knowing situation, needs, food availability, prices, monitoring best practices (boosts efficiency)
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Value-Adding
Mechanisms
(List and
describe top 3-5)
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Cash Aid
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Hunger Radar Monitoring Database
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Global Awareness
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Supply cash instead of aid to villages with functioning market places to stimulate local economies
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Collect data on food situations in at-risk communities to predict and prevent food crisis
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Spread news about cash aid and hunger monitoring database to encourage global participation
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Impact on
Service Coverage and Quality
(Describe)
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Our monitoring processes will all us to recognize and respond to hunger more efficiently with cash rather than food aid. This process provides direct monetary funding to the affected people to stimulate local economies while empowering communities. |
