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CASH PROGRAMME REVIEW FOR IDPs IN KABUL INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS 57equipment, and at least three months of running costs before the enterprise becomesprofitable.Focusing on potentially productive members of the household: data from this survey showedwomen possess skills and are willing to work. Conditional commodity vouchers provided towomen based on the skills they already possess for them to purchase the material requiredfor their activity, and complementing them with trainings in communication and basicbusiness skills to ensure the activity is income-generating.Involving neighbouring markets/ small businesses in training programmes to generateemployment after graduation form the training and foster acceptance and greater integrationof IDPs outside the camps.4. Going further: cash transfers for human capitalOn a general basis, if coupled with complementary interventions (health, hygiene, education, childlabour), cash-based approaches are more likely to act as a recovery instrument. Findings showedthat respondents in our sample do not exchange assistance, consume the food they are provided asin-kind, and still spend the highest proportion of their income on food. This means in-kind assistanceis needed but is not sufficient to address their basic needs, let alone to allow them accumulateassets.Complementary interventions including in-kind distributions of food, cash and awareness trainings onmanagement of expenses and savings could prove adequate in raising their living standards andhelping transition to recovery. In multi-dimensional situations of vulnerability like that of the KIS,complementing the cash transfer with in-kind transfers addressing acute needs, or binding cashgrants to conditionalities such as preventive health visits or school attendance, can prove useful byallowing recipients to allocate cash transfers on longer-term strategies – and call for a multidimensionalapproach through coordination with humanitarian actors across different sectors.Two elements from the data collected for this survey can help shaping cash transfer modalities in theKIS: 1) Health and hygiene are serious concerns respondents are willing to spend on; 2) Childprotection is a major issue. Based on these observations, two types of conditionalities can beconsidered in the perspective of a cash-approach with long-term impact in the KIS:Conditional health vouchers or cash grants, conditioned to a determined number of visits tohealth facilities per month, and to participation in sensitization trainings about health andhygiene.Conditional educational grants for a minimum school attendance per week and under thecondition of not repeating the same grade twice, coupled with awareness trainings formothers on hygiene and child protection.