The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) produces Project Briefings on a variety of topics. Recently, with the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), ODI completed a three-year study of cash transfers and published a series of project briefings on the topic. Links and descriptions of the briefings follow:

• Cash Transfers in Post-Conflict Settings
  This Project Briefing draws on emerging evidence on the experience of cash transfers in fragile and post-conflict states. It highlights specific examples from two case studies on cash transfers in Sierra Leone and Nepal, countries recovering from ten year civil conflicts. It focuses on three aspects of cash transfers in post-conflict contexts: the lessons of existing cash transfer experiences; how much cash transfers contribute to poverty reduction; and the role of cash transfer programming in the context of new state development and social cohesion in a fragile peace process.

• Cash Transfers and Political Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
  This Project Briefing looks at cash transfers and political economy issues, drawing on case studies from Kenya, Malawi and Zambia, low-income countries which have started to implement cash transfer programmes in recent years.
• Cash Transfers: Affordability and Sustainability
  Drawing on case studies in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia, this paper reviews cash transfer programme coverage and costs, the fiscal implications of programme extension to cover all eligible beneficiaries, the extent of national government resource allocation to cash transfers, the role of donor funding and perceptions of affordability and prospects for the sustainability of cash transfer programming.
• Cash Transfers: Graduation and Growth
  This briefing reviews the expectation that cash transfer programs are likely to result in graduation out of poverty at the household level and in growth at local and national levels.
• Cash Transfers: Lump Sums
  This briefing reviews the performance of lump sum cash transfers, and finds that they perform better in post-emergency than development contexts, and identifies factors that increase transfer success in both contexts.
• Cash Transfers: Targeting
  This project briefing summarises the main findings from the targeting component of ODI's three-year research project on cash transfers. The research draws broad lessons on the targeting of social cash transfers and identifies issues that are particular to cash transfers.