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Cash and Voucher Assistance and Gender-Based Violence Online Training: English module
Members training
The Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) online training is a 7-week facilitated online training targeting protection, gender and GBV specialists who are planning to or are encouraged to use CVA in their program to deliver their responses. Dates: 10 Jan to 27 Feb, 2022....
CashCap case study: Regional deployment to Latin America
Report
This case study highlights the importance of having independent, operational and technical cash and voucher support at the regional level, as in the past years the humanitarian action has evolved to respond to the spread of crises across multiple countries. It gives a hint on how Jimena helped to build a...
CashCap case study: Country mission to South Sudan
Report
This case study walks us through a context where initial the humanitarian actors didn’t engage or trust the CWG’s achievements. Where a key challenge was balancing the power dynamics and ensuring the voices of national NGOs in particular got heard at the table dominated by bigger players. Until...
Next Level Integration with Financial Service Providers in Kenya and The Netherlands
Report
When collaborating with Financial Service Providers (FSP) it might be challenging to oversee the process, especially when having to scale up. By using software-based integrations, often with the use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), NGOs can now provide Cash-Based Aid more efficiently and at...
Global Insight
Member
Global Insight brings together academics and independent researchers using empirical evidence to identify and measure the gendered causal mechanisms behind conflict, displacement and vulnerability. We work across sectors to support evidence-based decision making and innovative programs...
Enablers and Challenges when Integrating Cash, Nutrition and WASH Interventions in Humanitarian Contexts: A case study from South Sudan
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 South...
Côte d’Ivoire: Providing cash transfers for vulnerable people living with HIV and key populations
Case Study
In 2020, WFP and UNAIDS piloted a joint initiative to mitigate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on marginalized populations often left behind by providing cash transfers to vulnerable people living with HIV, key populations and their households in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Niger....
Anticipatory action and cash transfers for rapid onset hazards: Practitioners note for field testing
Report
This report is a collaboration between Asia-Pacific Regional Cash Working Group (RCWG) and Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action (TWGAA) who have joined forces to understand cash’s relationship with anticipatory action and come up with initial answers. Findings in this study reveal...
Burkina Faso: Providing cash transfers for vulnerable people living with HIV and key populations
Case Study
In 2020, WFP and UNAIDS piloted a joint initiative to mitigate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on marginalized populations often left behind by providing cash transfers to vulnerable people living with HIV, key populations and their households in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Niger....
Livelihoods Policy Brief No. 2: Conditional Cash Grants during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iraq, January 2022
Policy paper
The Iraqi economy faces a long road to recovery from several recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted labour markets and private sector functioning throughout 2020, 2021 and continuing into 2022. Options available to policy makers to invest in the Iraqi private sector include...
Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Trust Fund: Linking humanitarian cash assistance and national social protection systems – Burkina Faso Case Study
Case Study
The Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programme (SASPP) aims to help poor and vulnerable households become more resilient to the effects of climate change, and to expand the reach of shock-responsive cash transfer programmes in six Sahel countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal....
Cameroon: Providing cash transfers for vulnerable people living with HIV and key populations
Case Study
In 2020, WFP and UNAIDS piloted a joint initiative to mitigate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on marginalized populations often left behind by providing cash transfers to vulnerable people living with HIV, key populations and their households in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Niger....
Applying the Common Approach ‘Resourcing Families for Better Nutrition’ in Humanitarian Responses. Cross-Country Learning Report
Report
From 2021 to 2022, Save the Children implemented ‘Cash + for Nutrition’ in programming in three countries at risk of famine: Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Yemen.
With funding from Save the Children Italy and technical support from Save the Children UK and the consulting firm InformEd International,...
The CALP Network Annual Report 2021-22
Report
Having ridden the first waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of us thought 2021/22 would be better. But, once again, it proved a very challenging year from a humanitarian perspective. Fuelled by the impact of the pandemic, climate change and conflicts in every region of the world, needs continued to grow....
GBV Risk Mitigation in Cash and Voucher Assistance
Guidelines and Tools
This GBV-CVA Coordination Toolkit is a collection of handy tools to support humanitarian actors to mainstream gender-based violence (GBV) in cash and voucher assistance (CVA). Field oriented and pragmatic, these tools have been developed based on requests from CVA and GBV practitioners and have been...
Humanitarian Cash Transfer: A reference guide for practitioners in the Philippines
Guidelines and Tools
This reference guide strives to provide parameters for context-adapted cash transfers. It includes a set of minimum operating standards, discussed with the CWG membership. In particular, the following themes were the subject of detailed discussions and considered as key issues for CVA practitioners in a...
Improving Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) and the RFP Process
Report
Over the last two decades, governments as well as humanitarian and relief organizations have dramatically expanded the use of cash and cash equivalent transfers to combat poverty, improve health outcomes and expand access to basic goods and services. Both academic research and on-the-ground experience...
Niger: Providing cash transfers for vulnerable people living with HIV and key populations
Case Study
In 2020, WFP and UNAIDS piloted a joint initiative to mitigate the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on marginalized populations often left behind by providing cash transfers to vulnerable people living with HIV, key populations and their households in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire and Niger....
Cash for Work: Standard Operation Procedures
Guidelines and Tools
The humanitarian crisis in Iraq is one of the largest, with the fastest displacement rate since 2014. Vulnerable population in Iraq include both the recent and long-term displaced, those who remained in conflict areas, those who returned to newly liberated areas (NLAs), and communities hosting displaced....
DIGNIFYING, DIVERSE AND DESIRED: CASH AND VOUCHERS AS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FOR MIGRANTS
Report
This report looks at the use of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in supporting migrants. This report includes a baseline review of the use of CVA in the IFRC’s past and current operations assisting migrants, finding that in a 42-month period between 2018 and 2021, CVA was used in 25 per cent of the...