Editing World Food Programme (section)

===Cash assistance===
[[File:Cash Simon Pierre Diouf.jpg|thumb|A beneficiary shows the humanitarian assistance card she used to receive money at a WFP cash transfer point in Niger. Photo: WFP/Simon Pierre Diouf]]
WFP uses [[cash transfer]]s such as physical banknotes, a [[debit card]] or vouchers, aiming to give more choices to aid recipients and encourage the funds to be invested back into local economies. During the first half of 2022, WFP delivered US$1.6 billion in cash to 37 million people in 70 countries to alleviate hunger.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Edward |date=September 15, 2022 |title=Global Food Crisis: Cash Offers Hope to the World's Most Vulnerable |url=https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/sustainability/food-security-nutrition-sustainable-agriculture/5596-global-food-crisis-cash-offers-hope-to-the-world-s-most-vulnerable |website=InDepth News}}{{primary source inline|date=October 2022}}</ref> A 2022 study by the [[Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative]] concluded that the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) cash programme "significantly reduced the incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty" among the people receiving cash transfers.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Robson|first1=Matthew|last2=Vollmer|first2=Frank|last3=Berçin Do˘gan|first3=Stevis-Gridneff|last4=Grede|first4=Nils|date=August 2022|title=Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN Programme in Turkey|language=en|work=The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative|url=https://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/OPHIWP142.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010151602/https://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/OPHIWP142.pdf|archive-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>