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title: "FRC - Feasibility study: Vouchers in food assistance"
description: "The French Red Cross wanted to assess whether cash transfers could be added to its food assistance in French Guiana, after demand tripled in 2020. Our experts…"
url: https://reliefapplications.org/projects/frc-feasibility-study-vouchers-in-food-assistance/
lang: en
updated: 2026-11-11
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# FRC - Feasibility study: Vouchers in food assistance

The French Red Cross wanted to assess whether cash transfers could be added to its food assistance in French Guiana, after demand tripled in 2020. Our experts in emergency needs assessment, social work and information management visited facilities, contacted partners and analysed questionnaires on consumption habits gathered by volunteers to design a pilot phase.

- **Client**: French Red Cross
- **When**: 4 months
- **Team**: 2 people
- **Services**: [Info management & MEAL](https://reliefapplications.org/services/info-management/)
- **Industry**: Risk prevention; Disaster management
- **SDGs**: 1. No poverty, 2. Zero hunger, 6. Clean water and sanitation
- **Client website**: [croix-rouge.fr](https://www.croix-rouge.fr/)

The French Red Cross is an independent charity working alongside governments and public authorities. As a key player in society, they provide humanitarian, health, social, welfare and training services thanks to the work of 18,000 employees and 56,000 volunteers.

Since 2011, Croix-Rouge française supports food assistance distribution to the most vulnerable in French Guyane, operating in most of the littoral areas (Cayenne, Kourou, St Laurent du Maroni, Rémire-Montjoly, Mana, Matoury).

Mostly due to the COVID outbreak, and its economical impact on the population, the Food Assistance Platform (PFA) of French Red Cross in French Guiana (Guyane) saw the volume of food distributed multiplied by 3 in 2020 (140 tons in 2019 to 490 tons in 2020 = equivalent 840.000 meals).

Relief Applications supported the organization with experts in emergency need assessment, social work and transversal approach, cash transfer and Information Management to deliver to integrate cash transfer solutions in the programme.

The distribution and analysis of a questionnaire was among the tasks executed. This questionnaire captured the consumption pattern of beneficiaries (which items are most needed, which market they use to shop...), to take their preferred practices in consideration, and discover main constraints.

## The challenge

- Conduct a feasibility study to implement cash transfer strategies
- Design of a pilot phase for the French Red Cross Territorial Direction in French Guiana
- Integrate cash transfer solution(s) to the assistance package for population living in economic and precariousness situation

## What we did

- Contacts with partners and visits to facilities to analyse aid distribution capacities
- Distribution of questionnaires to food assistance recipients through volunteers
- Integration of cash transfer solution(s) to the assistance package

![Feasibility study: Vouchers in food assistance, French Red Cross: screen 1](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p058/01.webp)

![Feasibility study: Vouchers in food assistance, French Red Cross: screen 2](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p058/02.webp)

![Feasibility study: Vouchers in food assistance, French Red Cross: screen 3](https://reliefapplications.org/images/projects/slides/p058/03.webp)

- [French Red Cross website](https://hub.croix-rouge.fr)

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