UNICEF Afghanistan Country Office is conducting market research to understand market dynamics related to cash transfer services and about financial service providers.

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1. Background UNICEF implements humanitarian and resilience-building programs across Afghanistan, using cash transfers as a key modality to support children, women, and vulnerable households. Building on approaches widely adopted by UNICEF and the broader humanitarian community, cash assistance enables families to meet their most urgent needs with dignity, while strengthening household resilience, supporting local markets, and reducing negative coping mechanisms such as child labor, school dropout, child marriage, indebtedness, and other harmful survival strategies. UNICEF regularly uses humanitarian cash transfers as an effective mechanism to help children, women, and vulnerable families access food, health care, education, shelter, winterization support, and other essential services. UN