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When your Immediate Needs are Met, you can Fight Harder to Make a Living: Perceptions of aid in Burkina Faso
Report
Unstable governance and an intensification of armed violence, compounded by climate change and heightened food insecurity, continue to fuel humanitarian crises in Burkina Faso. At the time of this report’s publication, 4.6 million people need humanitarian assistance. According to the Inter-Agency...
CWG Learning Workshop: Report – Consolidate Knowledge
Report
On June 8th, the United Nations hosted a Learning Workshop on cash-based programmes in Sri Lanka. Led by the Cash Working Group (CWG) and supported by the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator (RCO), the workshop served as a platform for consolidating knowledge for cash-based interventions amid the...
USA & Canada Cash Working Group Meeting
Event
CALP will host a meeting with members of the US & Canada Cash Working Group on Wednesday June 7th, 2023, from 14:00 to 15:30 (EST). The event will be hybrid (face to face and online) and held in English. The overall objective of meeting is to create a space for exchange for CVA actors working in the USA...
MERS Standards: Easy Principles for Better Market Based Programming
Members event
جلسة أونلاين – معايير MERS، المعايير الدنيا للانتعاش الاقتصادي: مبادئ سهلة لبرمجة أفضل قائمة على السوق سيتم إجراء هذه الجلسة أونلاين باللغة الإنجليزية مع توفير ترجمة...
Global Education Cluster Cash Task Team webinar launching online training module on CVA for education in emergencies
Members event
The Global Education Cluster Cash Task Team is pleased to invite you to a webinar launching the first ever Cash and Voucher Assistance in Education in Emergencies online training, developed in partnership with Save the Children as part of the INEE-endorsed Education in Emergencies online pathway. This...
CALP Network Board Meeting
Members event
The Board provides strategic leadership and operational oversight of CALP. The CALP Board is comprised of between 7 and 13 voting members, who are drawn from CALP member organisations or are independent members of the CALP Network. The Board operates on the basis of the Operational Framework and Code of...
Cash & Voucher Assistance and Gender-Based Violence Online Training
Members training
On behalf of CARE and Task Team on Cash for Protection, we are pleased to share the registration announcement for the Cash and Voucher Assistance and Gender-Based Violence Online Training which builds on the existing CVA and GBV Compendium face-to-face training, developed alongside the CVA & GBV...
Shelter Considerations for Minimum Expenditure Basket Development and Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance Program Design: A Guidance Note
Guidelines and Tools
This tip sheet was developed by the Global Shelter Cluster and CRS, co-facilitator of the Shelter, Cash and Markets Community of Practice (CoP), and was reviewed by various coordinators and several CoP members, for use by country-level Shelter Cluster Coordinators and other practitioners who are requested...
Rachel Eichholz
Person
Market Functionality Index: Assessing the functionality of selected markets for cash-based assistance
Case Study
Markets are functional. While there remain variations from market to market, Sri Lanka’s markets currently have a wide range of products, adequate physical availability of essential goods, a resilient supply chain and sufficient levels of hygiene and cleanliness. Overall market functionality remains...
Alan Grundy
Person
Lucia Steinberg
Person
Lucia Steinberg has worked in the humanitarian sector since 2009, with a specific focus on Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) since 2015. She has worked across a diversity of settings, primarily in mass displacement, refugee contexts and with people on the move, with assignments mostly in the Middle East,...
Jonathan Brass
Person
Cash for Rent Guidelines for Yemen
Guidelines and Tools
Since the start of a civil conflict in Yemen in March 2015, the country has remained in a state of emergency. Ongoing fighting and military activities have made it challenging for humanitarian workers to reach affected populations and meet their basic needs, such as food, water, and shelter. Displaced...
Simon Wright-Lakin
Person
Steve Taylor
Person
Stephen Taylor is the Chief Delivery and Impact Officer at Simprints. Steve joined Simprints from World Vision where he was the Head of Office for Syria and Turkey. Steve has experience with other NGOs including as Country Director with Action Against Hunger in Pakistan and as Syria Response Director with...
“Aid is Inadequate because No One Consults us.” Perceptions of humanitarian aid in Chad
Report
Chad is a diverse and dynamic place. It is the fifth-largest country in Africa and is rich in gold, uranium, and oil. The country is home to a mixture of languages, ethnicities, and religions, creating a vibrant mosaic. However, it is also marked by protracted humanitarian, economic, and climate crises....
Cash Based Interventions: Implementation guidelines for light & medium repairs of houses & apartments
Guidelines and Tools
Cash-Based Interventions are a type of market-based intervention that use local markets and services to meet the needs of the people affected by the crisis, in this case, to carry out light and medium repairs to the houses and apartments affected by the conflict. They can be stand-alone or used in...
An Integrated Approach to Menstrual Hygiene Management: Awareness sessions and cash assistance for women and girls affected by crisis in Lebanon
Case Study
In 2022, UNFPA Lebanon worked with local partners to launch an integrated cash and awareness for menstrual hygiene management (MHM) initiative as a way to tackle the growing issue of period poverty amidst the country’s economic crisis. Through the pilot, over 2,600 vulnerable women and girls of...
Global Cash Working Group Meeting
Members event
The Global Cash Working Group will meet to hear the initial findings and provide feedback on research, supported by the Cash Advisory Group, to understand what constitutes quality cash coordination.