About Us
Welcome to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement platform for humanitarian cash assistance. Find out more about the Cash Hub platform and team below.
About the Cash Hub
The Cash Hub, hosted by British Red Cross, aims to accelerate the use and increase the scale-up of cash assistance in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian action.
The Cash Hub supports a programme of activities, in collaboration with Movement partners, including:
- Programme and technical support to National Societies’ cash preparedness
- Operational support to cash programmes
- Cash School and programme of training activities
- Online platform to provide access to information, tools, data, evidence and learning for cash practitioners (cash-hub.org)
- Policy, research and advocacy on cash programming
- Innovation and use of new technologies for cash programmes
The online platform (cash-hub.org) enables knowledge sharing and information exchange among the network of cash practitioners in the Movement. The platform provides access to tools, data, programme evidence, learning, case studies, and technical advice. A short video and a basic presentation are available to help staff and volunteers of the Movement to promote the Cash Hub platform in English, Arabic and French, to let others know about this resource and how to access and use its different tools.
Management of the Cash Hub
As host, the British Red Cross is responsible for the oversight of the Cash Hub and supports the programme of activities with a dedicated Cash Team sitting within its International Directorate.
Meet the Team
Find out more about the members of the Cash Hub below
Emma Delo
Cash Hub Head
Emma is the Head of the Cash Hub, supporting the increased scale up of quality cash assistance across the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Emma has over 20 years’ experience in the humanitarian sector working for the British Red Cross, IFRC, VSO, CaLP and UNESCO in a wide range of emergency contexts across Asia, Africa and the Pacific as well as in headquarter positions. Building on a background in programme coordination and management and a Masters in Community Development, Emma has technical expertise in recovery, livelihoods and food security, community participation, cash assistance and market based interventions. Emma is currently the Co-Chair of the Movements Cash Peer Working Group and the Cash Cap Steering Committee.
Agnès (Inès) Dalmau
Senior Cash Hub Advisor
Agnès (Inès) joined the British Red Cross on April 2017 as a Cash and Markets technical adviser. She is aligned with Asia Pacific, East and South Africa, and OSBs Regions and has a particular focus on cash preparedness. She has been a humanitarian aid professional working mostly for Red Cross for the last 18 years, mainly as a country coordinator in big recovery operations covering conflict, post-conflict, slow-onset and sudden disasters. She managed programmes with cash assistance for the first time during the Tsunami response. She has developed cash trainings for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, UNHCR and other organisations and is a member of CaLP’s roster of trainers. She has a background on Sociology and Political science and holds an MBA and Postgraduate degrees in Humanitarian Aid and Social Research.
Marta Alejano
Senior Cash Hub Advisor
Marta is an Economist with a Master’s degree on Disabilities and Inclusion. She has worked for the Red Cross Movement since 2002, first as a Livelihoods and Recovery delegate and then as Country Manager and Regional Manager in Asia and Southern Africa. She has worked for the Spanish Red Cross, the IFRC Livelihoods Centre and in 2018 she joined British Red Cross as Food Security and Livelihoods Strategist. She became BRC Country Cluster Manager for Southern Africa in 2019 and then joined the Cash Hub in October 2022.
Andra Gulei
Senior Cash Hub Advisor
Andra has joined the Cash Hub on March 2022 as Cash and Markets Adviser with a focus on Emergencies, Migration and Learning. Andra has worked with the RCRC Movement for the past 15 years and has extended experience on livelihoods and CVA in emergency, recovery and development in Latina America, Africa and Asia as well as leading capacity building proceses. Andra has a background on Social Science, holds a Master degree on Migration and Asylum and Postgraduate degrees on Humanitarian Aid and Development .
Azim Noorani
Senior Cash Hub Advisor
Azim has supported humanitarian responses since 2007, working in country-based, regional and global roles with the British Red Cross, the IFRC and the ICRC; he also has cash advisory experience working with the Danish Refugee Council, International Rescue Committee, and as a cash and markets expert with CashCap. Areas of expertise include supporting organisational cash preparedness and strengthening capacity, strategy development, advocacy, understanding and analysing community needs and preferences, design of humanitarian assistance programmes, meeting basic needs in emergency responses, economic recovery and graduation to sustainable livelihoods, and the developing uses of digital and data in humanitarian response. Azim holds a Master’s in Human Rights and has also worked on asylum and refugee policy in the UK, and as a protection specialist on behalf of civilians affected by armed conflict.
Cara Kennedy
Senior Cash Learning & Data Adviser
Cara’s role supports the Cash Hub’s work on data, evidence, and learning, driving initiatives that support the scale-up of quality Cash Assistance across the Movement. Since joining the Cash Hub in 2018, Cara has supported the work of the team in a range of roles including as a Cash Programme Officer and the Cash Hub Helpdesk Manager. Cara completed her MA in Education and International Development at University College London, with her dissertation focusing on the impact of unconditional cash transfers on educational outcomes. She also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Sussex and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Nottingham.
Jenny Harper
Senior Cash Hub Manager
Jenny Harper is leading on the development of technical expert deployment capacity, by providing opportunities and supporting the expansion of knowledge, skills and expertise of humanitarian professionals through the Cash School. Jenny works on building the pool of competent, confident and qualified individuals to design and implement cash based programmes through trainings, individual capacity building pathways and learning deployments. Jenny has over 6 years’ experience working as an L&D professional for the British Red Cross.
Hannah Rutledge
Cash School Manager
Hannah moved into the Cash School Manager role in Feb 2025 and primarily leads the implementation of the Cash School strategy developing a robust network of Cash Champions to enhance cash assistance capabilities across the Movement. She works directly with cash practitioners throughout their ‘Cash Practitioner Development Programme’ (CPDP) journey and facilitates CVA deployments that meet the practitioners specific learning needs. Hannah comes with 20 years experience in Learning and Development, working across the Humanitarian sector and has come from the British Red Cross International Learning and Development team.
Aisha Yusuf
Web Content Manager
Aisha joined British Red Cross as Cash Hub Web Content Manager in 2022; previously Aisha worked in the third sector as Content Designer for St John Ambulance, working on website digital transformation and development and in the healthcare industry as Marketing Executive for a rare disease start-up. She holds a degree in Business Management and English Language from Aston University.
Adam Lark
Programme Officer
Adam serves as the focal point for the Cash Hub as the Programme Officer. Supporting the strategic workplans, corporate and donor reporting, budgeting, and the team’s administrative coordination. After qualifying in international development and sports management, he pursued a Master’s in Health Policy Planning and Financing. Adam has spent most of his career working in the humanitarian sector and has spent some time coaching various youth sports along the way!
Athene Jackson
Programme Associate
Athene joined the Cash Hub as part of her Programme Associate journey. In November 2024, she began her internship run by Jersey Overseas Aid, spending six months with the institutional donor before transitioning to the British Red Cross for a year. She initially worked with the Institutional Partnerships fundraising team before moving into her current role. Athene previously also interned with Innovest Advisory, an impact investment advisory firm, and holds a degree in Environmental Geoscience, which sparked her interest in nature‑based solutions programmes.
Adriana Heath
Digital Communications Officer
Adriana is a digital media specialist with experience in content production, digital strategy, and communications across advocacy, educational, and cultural organisations. She holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA in Government from Dartmouth College. Previously, she worked at the LSE as Communications and Digital Media Assistant for the Eden Centre for Education Enhancement, as well as Project Administrator for the cultural collective Hard Art.
Explore the Cash Hub
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