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Ethiopia Acceptance And Security And Safety Overview
Report
This overview was created by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) with input by the Ethiopia Cash Working Group (ECWG) and as such is part of the overall effort to create an evidence base of the feasibility and appropriateness to use and scale-up cash transfer programming (CTP)...
Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium – Ethiopia: Building an evidence base on operational models for the delivery of CTP
Report
The Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium for the Uptake of MPGs is formed by Save the Children, the CALP Network, Danish Refugee Council, Mercy Corps, and OCHA with ECHO financing. Its primary aim is the improvement of capacity, coordination and evidence for multi-purpose cash grants through the...
Help Us to Improve the CALP Network
Blog Post
We need your feedback to help us continue to improve our work. Please spare 10 minutes to complete this survey telling us how we can more effectively help improve the scale and quality of cash transfer programming as a tool for humanitarian assistance. The survey is open until Monday 2nd April 2018....
New Thematic Page on Gender, Protection and CTP
Blog Post
To realise the potential benefits of cash based assistance for everyone, there is need to foster dialogue between cash, gender and protection actors. Actors from different sectors need to work together, share experiences and learning, and address gaps and overlaps. This also requires improving...
Cash Based Assistance PQ Toolbox Now Live!
Blog Post
The CALP Network has developed a programme quality toolbox for cash-based assistance. The toolbox provides a set of common standards and acions for quality CBA. Each action is supported by a set of guidelines and ready to use tools and templates on 'how' to acheive quality CBA. It can be used across CBA...
My Needs, Our Future
Report
Since the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year in Jordan, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Child Cash Grant (CCG) launched its new phase, an equity-driven, integrated social protection programme for all children in Jordan called Hajati, or ‘my need’ in Arabic. The new programme built on...
Seven Steps to Scaling Cash Relief: Driving Outcomes and Efficiency
Guidelines and Tools
As we approach the mid-point of our five-year strategy, this briefing explores the way in which the IRC has embraced cash relief programming and is seeking to drive efficiencies and maximise impact. It defines seven steps that the IRC has taken to scale cash relief. It goes on to argue that...
Greece Cash Alliance: Building an Evidence Base on Operational Models for the Delivery Of CTP
Report
The primary aim of this case study is to map out aspects of the Greece Cash Alliance (GCA) operational model influencing key drivers of quality (effectiveness, efficiency and accountability) in the delivery of multipurpose cash grants (MPGs). The GCA was launched in April 2017 with funding from ECHO, in...
Emergency Response Capacity (ERC) Consortium – Nigeria: Building an evidence base on operational models for the delivery of CTP
Report
This case study aims to review and map out how aspects of the Enhanced Response Capacity (ERC) consortium model have influenced key drivers of quality (effectiveness, efficiency and accountability) in the consortium’s Nigeria pilot. Formed at the global level in 2015, the ERC Consortium is comprised of...
Nigeria Cash Working Group (CWG) Inter-Sector Working Group (ISWG) Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) Presentation, March 2018
Presentation
Presentation to the Inter-Sector Working Group (ISWG) advocating for the use of Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) in the response in Borno state, north-east Nigeria
Gender and Cash Based Assistance in Humanitarian Contexts: An Agenda for Collective Action
Guidelines and Tools
In February 2018, a symposium in Nairobi on “Gender and Cash Based Assistance” brought together 100 senior managers, technical advisors, researchers and other disaster management practitioners with national, regional and global mandates. An agenda for immediate action was identified.
Existing gender...
The CALP Network East Africa Members Consultative Discussion
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Mission Wrap-Up: Ten Key Findings
Guidelines and Tools
Joint Donor Mission on cash programming to Jordan and Lebanon 4-8 February 2018
Cash and Markets Working Group Strategic Workshop Report – Libya
Report
On the 6th and 7th of February 2018, a two days meeting opened to the members of the CMWG, Sector Leads, World Bank, UNSMIL, OCHA and Donors was held in Tunis to review the achievements, gaps and challenges of cash programing and articulate the 2018 humanitarian Cash Strategy for Libya. Supported by a...
Geneva-based Cash Working Group – Presentation 2018
Presentation
Geneva-based Cash Working Group – Presentation 2018
Humanitarian Cash Transfers and Financial Inclusion
Report
A case study on Kenya Red Cross Humanitarian Cash Transfers and Financial Inclusion along the Kenyan Coast. The study examines the extent to which humanitarian e-transfer beneficiaries increase their access and use of formal financial services and products such as payments, savings, credit or insurance.
Targeting in social protection systems: comparative study on two “HEA” methods and a “PMT” targeting method for cash transfer programmes in Gao circle, Mali, 2016-17
Report
Social safety nets are becoming a key instrument of povery reduction policies in Sub-Saharan Africa; they are a basic element of social protection systems that include adaptive social protection. Social protection systems aim to target both chronically poor households and those who are slightly better off...
Geneva-based Cash Working Group Meeting – 6th February 2018
Guidelines and Tools
Geneva-based Cash Working Group Meeting – 6th February 2018
The State of the World’s Cash – Executive summary
Report
This report critically analyses the current state of CTP in humanitarian aid, and the extent to which commitments have been achieved, in order to provide shared insights that can accelerate progress.
The report is structured according to the six Global Objectives set out in the CALP Network’s Global...
The State of the World’s Cash Report
Report
This major publication from the CALP Network aims to provide a neutral and critical analysis of the current state of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) globally, including the extent to which it is contributing to quality in programming and outcomes for people in need.