'More dignity': aid organisations switch to cash in drought-hit Ethiopia

Giving people money is said to be more efficient and empowering than in-kind aid such as sacks of grainOutside a village in the Dasenech district of southern Ethiopia, a queue has formed in front of a narrow bench beneath a tree, where clerks are checking documents and handing out packets of banknotes, each worth about 4,500 Ethiopian birr (?76).The distribution is being overseen by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a humanitarian organisation based in the US. Kulo Arikulo, like others in the queue, says the support has come just in time. Continue reading...