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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...
The Impact of Conditional Education Assistance
Policy paper
This Policy Brief by World Vision Laos PDR, World Vision Taiwan, Lao Ministry of Education and Sport, FCDO (through the British Embassy Vientiane) highlight the impact of conditional education assistance (cash transfers) supporting transition of vulnerable children from primary to lower secondary...
Good Practice Brief: 8 key actions to implement adolescent-responsive cash and voucher assistance
Guidelines and Tools
Adolescents are chronically overlooked in humanitarian responses. While humanitarian practitioners are increasingly accountable to adolescents, adolescents continue to be forgotten or neglected because they don’t fit neatly into child- or adult-focused assistance. Neither child nor adult programming...
You asked, we acted: Lots going on in the Americas on CVA and Social Protection
News
Sometimes it’s good to pause and take stock and realise just how much progress is being made! Responding to clear demand, in recent months, we’ve been working with many of you to refresh and develop resources on linkages between CVA and social protection. Lots has been achieved drawing on the...
Pilot Project Report on Cash for Protection Assistance to Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons in Chuiba and Eduardo Mondlane, Pemba, Cabo Delgado
Case Study
It is estimated that around 800,000 people have been displaced in Cabo Delgado because of armed conflict and violence since 2017. Of these, 71.1% are in the host community leaving with their relatives or/and in rented houses, 21.5% in relocation sites and 7.3% in communal transit shelter (UNICEF, 2022)....
Eight top tips for the 2023 humanitarian planning season
Blog Post
As disasters spiral globally and inflation increasing vulnerability for millions more, effective humanitarian planning has never been so important. But where to start? The CALP Network offers its top tips for humanitarians, ranging from CVA practitioners to leadership.
Pacific Cash Learning Event 2022
Members event
Pacific Cash Learning Event 2022
Save the Children & the PRCWG
How do we deliver cash assistance in the Pacific? How we can do it better? These are questions we invite you to help us explore at the Pacific Cash Learning Event 2022.
From 17 October to 21 October 2022
Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition Projects in Humanitarian Settings. A Case Study from Yemen
Case Study
This case study is one of a series of three. They were produced by Save the Children UK within the cross-country learning initiative on ’Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition (RF4BN) in humanitarian settings’, implemented in 2021 and 2022 in Afghanistan, South Sudan and Yemen.
Focused on the RF4BN...
Cash and Voucher Assistance for GBV Outcome in the MENA Region
Members event
With support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) and CARE, on behalf of the Global Protection Cluster Task Team on Cash for Protection (TTC4P), are convening a workshop for Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Gender-based Violence (GBV)...
CVA for people on the move: Time for a new vision?
Webinar recording
This event presented the main findings of our recently released study People are on the move: Can the world of CVA keep up? Analysis of the use of CVA in the context of human mobility in the Americas. Additionally, invited guests discussed key issues on facing the topic of human mobility and CVA and...
CVA for people on the move: Time for a new vision?
Event
If you are interested in deepening your understanding of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in the response to people on the move, including migrants, refugees and displaced persons, this event should be on your agenda. We invite you to explore our recent study, “People are on the move: can the world of...
IHRR Annual Conference 2022
Members event
Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) Annual Workshop and Lectures to support the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, 12th & 13th October 2022, Ustinov Room, Van Mildert College, Durham & Zoom Before and After: Building Resilience to Manage Disasters and Save Lives This conference...
MENA Webinar Series: Tackling Gender-Based Violence via Cash and Voucher Assistance
Webinar
Gender-based violence (GBV) is rampant — globally, one in three women experiences some form of violence or abuse. GBV is pervasive in humanitarian settings and anecdotal evidence points to the increase in GBV since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moldova: Rapid GBV Risk Assessment in CVA
Case Study
Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022, more than 606,000 refugee individuals have entered Moldova. Among these refugees, 90,745 Ukrainian refugees currently remain in the country. In an attempt to respond to the basic needs of these individuals, 62,785 have received emergency...
Group Cash Transfer Thematic Working Group – Meeting
Event
The next meeting of the Group Cash Transfer Thematic Working Group on Monday 10th of October from 2h00 to 3h00 pm (CET) / 8h00 to 9h00 am (EST). The agenda will be the following: 1-Welcome and review of the ToR objectives and meeting frequency with reminder on categories of membership and their levels of...
Maximilla Omengo
Person
Maximilla joined CALP in October 2022. She has over 8 years of experience implementing CVA interventions. Prior to joining CALP, she worked as a Cash Based Intervention Programme Officer and Cash for Work Officer at FAO Somalia among other roles. These roles have exposed her to crucial elements of cash...
The changing landscape of cash preparedness: Time to adjust
Blog Post
When drought strikes, we’d all like to see money flowing seamlessly, at the push of a button, from donors, through the system and onto communities in crisis. As we call for change, we need to understand what is possible and the hills that still need to be climbed.
Tracking cash and voucher assistance
Report
(CVA) is seen as a success story of the Grand Bargain. Progress has also been made through the Grand Bargain 2.0 in endorsing a new cash coordination model. However, the most recent independent Grand Bargain monitoring report pointed out that the ‘tracking of the funding for CVA is still not optimal’....
Integrating Cash Assistance into Gender-based Violence Case Management to Support GBV Survivors and Individuals at Risk in Jordan Snapshot
Case Study
Jordan is home to the second largest refugee population per capita in the world. The country’s population of 10,571,602 includes more than 760,000 refugees registered with the UN refugee agency. More than 80 percent live in urban areas rather than in refugee camps.
A recent assessment by CARE Jordan...
Calculating the Minimum Expenditure Basket: A Guide to Best Practice
Guidelines and Tools
If you play a role in developing or revising MEB, then this tool is for you. This guidance is the revised and restructured version of the 2020 Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) Decision Making Tool. The MEB has emerged as a key tool in humanitarian action in situations where cash and voucher assistance...