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For decades, food insecurity and poverty alleviation related development interventions in The Gambia has been delivered to beneficiaries in the form of in-kind aid many of which comes along with stringent donor conditions attached. The conditions are often design in favor of donors as beneficiaries are not in many instances involve in drafting and finailising those conditions. As such, subject recipients to accept conditions imposed onto them even though it might sometimes go against their preference, but have to accept due to their prevailing circumstance being in dire need. Thus, a gradual paradigm shift in contemporary humanitarian aid dispensation in widely accepting Unconditional Cash-based Transfer Programmes as an effective social protection scheme in mitigating shocks. The physical delivery of cash to affected individuals and families avails recipients the leverage to make independent choices as to how, when and where to spend or invest the received cash aid.
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Mr Nuha Nyassi is a young industrious Gambian Masters Degree holder with an overwhelming eight years cross disciplinary work experience in Education, Community Development and Livelihood Strengthening, Youth and Children Development, Climate Change and Disaster Risks Reduction, Migration and Refugee Protection, Food and Nutrition Security.
