Multipurpose cash and voucher pilot across 7 IDP camps
- Partner
- International NGO (name withheld)
- Modality
- Hybrid cash transfers and multipurpose e-vouchers with offline redemption
- Context
- Abi Adi, Tigray · 7 IDP camps, cash liquidity and connectivity constraints
Context
In Abi Adi town, Tigray, displaced households across seven IDP camps faced acute cash liquidity shortages, constrained local markets and unreliable connectivity. The pilot evaluated the operational feasibility and speed of direct cash against the accountability and supply assurance of merchant e-vouchers in a high-constraint environment.
What we delivered
Household targeting across seven camps covering 50 of the most vulnerable households (25 receiving direct cash, 25 receiving vouchers); onboarding and training of local merchant cooperatives on the offline verification tool; commodity redemption with digital scanning; end-of-day reconciliation and local financial institution collaboration.
What the proof looked like
Real-time digital monitoring and reconciliation reducing the need for physical supervision; every voucher redemption verified with merchant identity, commodity delivery and timestamp; offline records securely cached and synced; clear separation of audit trails between the cash and voucher cohorts.
In numbers
50
households reached across 7 IDP camps (25 cash, 25 vouchers)
2026 · AIDONIC programme records
ETB
300,000+
local cooperative sales generated within hours (from under 10,000 ETB daily average)
2026 · AIDONIC programme records
7
IDP camps covered in Abi Adi town
2026 · AIDONIC programme records