Transcript KACHE. Kit for Autonomous Cash transfer in Humanitarian

KACHE. Kit for Autonomous Cash
transfer in Humanitarian Emergencies
Keble college
20 July 2014
Rationale
Needs to transfer
money to large
numbers of recipients
Increased
accountability
requirements
Electronic mechanisms have potential to
enable greater scale and speed of
response, enhance specificity of resource
transfers to match needs and increase
accountability
ACF seeks to
utilize electronic
cash payments in
previously
inaccessible areas
due to their
isolation,
insecurity or
limited
infrastructure.
KACHE” is composed of:
• points of sale (POS)
deployed at locations
offering goods
/services;
• large number of smart
cards, easily configured
at the beginning of a
response and handed to
beneficiaries for use in
the above-mentioned
POS.
Advantages:
• MOBILITY:
physical and rapid
deployment in any
operation
• AUTONOMY:
ability to be used
“offline” in places
with limited
connectivity
• SECURITY: using
“digital money”
for improved
security,
monitoring and
reduced fraud
Innovation
The absence or inadequacy of local services for
e-payment will no longer be a limitation for the
use of efficient delivery mechanisms in
humanitarian settings.
KACHE provides an autonomous and effective
delivery network for e-payment
Indicators of success
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User-friendliness
Reliability & security
Rapid deployment
Offline features
are among the key aspects that will provide this
system a comparative advantage over other systems
that are only able to operate in a specific context
Funded for 14 months under WFP’s
“Cooperating Partner’s Innovation Fund”
• Four phases:
1. The launch of ACF project Steering Committee, including
Terms of Reference for the technical solution, integrating
the latest technical developments.
2. Development of the e-transfer kit as a beta version including
all pre-defined requirements.
3. Field test of the kit: train, test and review the kit in a reallife scenario.
4. Final version of the kit is ready for emergency deployment,
and the Community of Practice is aware of the kit.
Thank you !
Julien JACOB
[email protected]