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Tariq Riebl
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Tariq Riebl is the Global Programme Strategy and Innovation Director at the Norwegian Refugee Council. He is an experienced Humanitarian Response Director, having worked on conflicts, natural disasters and epidemics in more than fifteen countries around the world since 2006 for the United Nations, the...
CVA & GBV Outcomes MENA Series – Webinars, Workshops, and the Way Forward
Webinar recording
With support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and CARE, and the CALP Network in MENA collaborated on the Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Gender-based Violence (GBV) focusing on CVA for GBV outcomes within and outside of GBV case...
Food Security Interventions among Refugees around the Globe: A scoping review
Report
There are 26 million refugees globally, with as many as 80% facing food insecurity irrespective of location. Food insecurity results in malnutrition beginning at an early age and disproportionately affects certain groups such as women. Food security is a complex issue and must consider gender, policies,...
Roadmap to Safer Biometrics in the Humanitarian Sector
Members event
🔔 📅 Save the date: 21st November, 4pm UK. Join the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC and Simprints Technology for the webinar launch of our new joint initiative that aims to develop an open source biometric toolset for the humanitarian sector. The qualities which make biometric data...
Overview of Revision Process for IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility
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Outlines process for revising the IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility
Cash, Environment and Climate Change by ECHO – CALP Network
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Cash and Locally Led Response Working Group meeting
Event
This is a Save the Date for the next Cash and Locally Led Response Working Group meeting that will take place on Thursday 10 November 2022, at 8 am (UTC time). For 1.30 hour we will discuss about relevant CVA and locally led aspects. The group is currently co-led by Women´s Right to Education Programme...
New Cash Coordination Model: All You Need to Know about the New Model
Presentation
The Cash Advisory Group developed a presentation to disseminate information about the new cash coordination, endorsed by the IASC in 2022.
Regional Cash Working Group – WCAF
Event
This is a Save the Date for the next Regional Cash Working Group meeting that will take place on Wednesday 9 November 2022, from 9am to 11am (GMT) face to face and online. The meeting will have simultaneous interpretation in English and French. The draft agenda for this meeting will be: National CWGs...
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 9 November 2022
Meeting minutes
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 9 November 2022
Dr. Miriam Opwonya Laker
Person
Miriam is the Global Director of Research at GiveDirectly and a Senior Research Scientist and Epidemiologist with nearly two decades of experience conducting research. Amongst her extensive experience, she led the design of the evaluation plans for GiveDirectly’s recently launched Yemen Refugees...
The Global Launch of The RISE Report
Members event
RISE is a joint initiative from Bixie, Catholic Relief Services, and UBx (Unionbank) to empower women-owned SMEs with cash grants, and insurance. This event, we will share the insights data from our program about women-owned SMEs behaviours during our grants.
MARKET DIALOGUE for SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ‘MoVAP FOR HEALTH’
Members event
Are you an individual, organisation, entrepreneur, startup, or research institution working on solutions (any form of science or innovation which provides solutions) for Increasing Access to and Engagement with healthcare outside of medical settings?
If yes, this is your opportunity to present your...
Rory Crew
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Location: New York, USA
Guidance Note on Cash and Voucher Assistance for Child-headed Households (CHH) and Unaccompanied Children (UAC)
Guidelines and Tools
This guidance sets out how to design and adapt cash and voucher assistance so it can be used as an intervention to address the needs of child-headed households (CHH) and unaccompanied children (UAC) in humanitarian action. The guidance goes through each step of the programme cycle – including...
Operational research on GBV risk mitigation in relation to CVA in humanitarian settings – UNFPA/GWI collaborative research
Case Study
The Global Women’s Institute at George Washington University and UNFPA have launched a collaboration to examine GBV risk mitigation in relation to CVA in humanitarian settings in order to: (a) further corroborate the presence of GBV risks to women and girls in current CVA programming; and b) develop...
Cash and Voucher Assistance – Feasibility Study
Case Study
The feasibility study aims to understand the general CVA landscapes in Nepal and its feasibility. Since the earthquake response in Nepal in 2015, cash and voucher assistance has increasingly become popular as a modality of assistance in emergencies, especially during COVID-19. The study was conducted in...
Listening is not enough: People demand transformational change in humanitarian assistance
Report
“Our accountability to [affected people] is paramount and must be acted upon. It is non-negotiable, at all times.” This pledge reiterates prior commitments to accountability to affected people (AAP), such as those made in the Grand Bargain and the Secretary-General’s Agenda for Humanity. In light of...
Web3 and Communities at Risk: Myths and Problems with Current Experiments
Report
The report demonstrates 3 key areas where Web3 experimentation from start-ups, humanitarian and development aid organisations, and other non-traditional commercial partners is targeting marginalised groups: Payment, Currency, and Identification.
Evidence of impact research study: Cash and voucher assistance in Niger
Case Study
While in-kind assistance constitutes the bulk of humanitarian aid globally, Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is quickly gaining ground among donors and practitioners. Between 2014 and 2020, the share of CVA-based support within the overall humanitarian assistance portfolio) increased 4.5 times — from...