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Launch of Joint Donor Principles on Interoperability of Data in Humanitarian Cash Programmes
Members event
Despite considerable leaps forward in cash programming in recent years – including a significant scale-up in volume and ground-breaking agreement on cash coordination – many barriers remain to realising the true potential of humanitarian cash. One such barrier is poor interoperability: the inability...
BEYOND TICKING THE BOX: GBV Risk Mitigation in Cash and Voucher Assistance
Members event
As cash quickly becomes the go-to modality in many humanitarian responses, actors must ensure that it does not put women and girls at further risk. Building on two years of engagement with Cash and GBV actors in various contexts, this webinar will highlight field learning as well as share a pragmatic...
Human Mobility
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Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) is frequently used to meet the needs of migrants in crisis. This page serves as a space to house materials connected to CVA and migration.
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 7 September 2022
Meeting minutes
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 7 September 2022
Webinar: Beyond Ticking the Box – Toolkit for GBV Risk Mitigation in Cash and Voucher Assistance
Webinar recording
Drawing from field learning and a close engagement with CVA and GBV actors in various contexts, the GBV AoR and UNFPA have developed a user-friendly GBV-CVA Coordination Toolkit to guide and support CVA and GBV practitioners in identifying and mitigating potential GBV risk in Cash programming. Using a...
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 7 September 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: Roundtable of...
Donor Cash Forum Statement and Guiding Principles on Interoperability of Data Systems in Humanitarian Cash Programming
Policy paper
The DCF’s ten guiding principles on data interoperability in cash programming are relevant across the spectrum of sector and sub-sector programming along the Humanitarian- Development-Peace Nexus. The guiding principles outlined in this statement will build upon existing interoperability commitments to...
CALP Network Board Meeting
Event
Cash and Voucher Assistance in Burkina Faso: CVA feasibility study key findings
Case Study
The study conducted by Plan International in May 2022 in Burkina Faso adopted a mix of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to gather data across the communities in Ouahigouya, Kongoussi, Fada N’Gourma and Kaya municipalities. A total of 28 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) was undertaken with...
Cash and Voucher Assistance in Niger: CVA feasibility study key findings
Case Study
A mixed qualitative and quantitative data gathering was conducted by Plan International in August 2022 in Niger through market survey, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) in Tillabery (Ouallam and Torodi) and Tahoua regions. A total of 131 traders from the major markets...
Cash and Voucher Assistance in Mali: CVA feasibility study key findings
Case Study
A mixed qualitative and quantitative data gathering was conducted by Plan International in August 2022 in Mali through market survey, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) in the regions of Gao, Menaka, Mopti, Segou, and Timbuktu. A total of 225 traders from the major market...
CALP Online: Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff – Key Aid Consulting
Members training
The Donor Cash Forum
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The Donor Cash Forum (DCF) is an informal body for donors to discuss and develop shared positions that will advance and improve humanitarian cash programming. The DCF currently comprises representatives from Canada, DG ECHO, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US (BHA and BPRM).
Improving the Prospects for Peace in Nigeria: Spotlight on cash-based transfers
Case Study
This report aims to provide a better understanding of how the World Food Programme’s (WFP) cash-based transfer (CBT) interventions in Nigeria make peace contributions and looks at how these contributions could be further enhanced. The findings are based on a desk review of programme documents, in-depth...
Transitioning out of Humanitarian Cash Assistance in Iraq: Critical Actions to Ensure Gender-based Violence Risks are Mitigated and Prevented throughout the Transition
Case Study
In light of ongoing efforts to transition away from humanitarian Cash assistance in Iraq, a two-day workshop took place in Erbil on June 22 which gathered more than 32 gender-based violence (GBV) and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) actors with the goal of identifying priorities for the transition period...
Operational Guidance for Use of Cash and Voucher Assistance to Improve Nutrition Outcomes in Northwest Syria
Guidelines and Tools
This Operational guidance was developed collaboratively with NWS Nutrition sector member agencies with close collaboration with the Cash Working Group (CWG) and Food Security Cluster. The guidance aims at providing a set of operational guidance, using lessons learnt across the sector and NWS humanitarian...
Independent evaluation of CAMEALEON
Report
CAMEALEON is an independent initiative to provide monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning support to the World Food Programme (WFP)’s multi-purpose cash (MPC) programme for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Established in 2017, CAMEALEON’s main purpose is to bridge evidence gaps, strengthen...
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
Report
This study proposes a new vision for the implementation of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in contexts of human mobility in the Americas region.
Inter-Agency Humanitarian Cash for Work Guidelines: Afghanistan
Guidelines and Tools
Forty years of war, recurrent natural disasters, chronic poverty, drought, and the COVID-19 pandemic have left more than 24 million people in Afghanistan in need of humanitarian assistance . Over the years Afghanistan has experienced massive destruction of basic infrastructure, health and educational...
UNHCR Cameroon – UNHCR feasibility review of using cash for shelter interventions in Far North Cameroon
Report
This report presents a feasibility review of using cash for shelter interventions in Far North Cameroon, commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa (RBWCA). The report first introduces the study and the context, it then spells out...