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Lifeline at Risk: Supporting Markets through Cash in Sudan
Members event
Lifeline at Risk: Supporting Markets through Cash in Sudan
Nearly one year into the conflict that plunged Sudan into a humanitarian catastrophe, the international community is facing the humbling realization that the response has so far failed to match the severity and scale of people’s needs. In a...
CVA, Climate and Environment Community of Practice – Anticipatory Action and Cash
Event
Anticipatory Action and CVA: Understanding and Exploring Key Concepts, Issues, Approaches, and Perspectives. The webinar will be delivered at times friendly to the Americas and Asia Pacific regions.
Empowering Communities: Post-earthquake small business recovery in Hatay, Turkey
Case Study
On February 6, 2023, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria, following by numerous aftershocks. The Turkish areas of Hatay, Adıyaman, Kahramanmaraş and Malatya were the hardest hit. Immense infrastructure damage—including roads, medical centers, and houses—over 108,000 injured...
From Feasible to Life-Saving: The urgent case for cash at scale in Sudan
Case Study
About 18 million people are currently facing crisis (IPC 3) or emergency (IPC 4) levels of food insecurity across Sudan. This means more than one in three people are suffering from acute hunger in the country. As the conflict rages on, food insecurity is rapidly deteriorating, and communities in many...
CVA, Climate & Environment CoP Anticipatory Action and CVA
Webinar recording
Understanding and Exploring Key Concepts, Issues, Approaches and Perspectives.
Rampant inflation and climate crisis: can cash cope? – Community perceptions of cash assistance and resilience in northeast Nigeria
Report
Nigeria is currently experiencing its worst financial crisis in almost 30 years. Economic reforms such as the floating of the naira and the fuel subsidy’s removal have contributed to rising inflation, which reached almost 30% in February 2024. The volatile financial climate is having a real and...
Integrating Livelihoods Support into Emergency Assistance Programming
Guidelines and Tools
This report draws on research and learning to advocate for broader consideration of expanded humanitarian response programming, especially in situations of prolonged crises. Livelihoods programs have a crucial role to play in emergency settings, especially when combined with and aligned with cash...
From Emergency to System Strengthening: WFP Caribbean cash transfer responses through social protection (2018-2023)
Report
This document presents an overview of the World Food Programme’s efforts from 2018 to 2023 in the Caribbean, focusing on enhancing social protection systems through cash transfers in response to emergencies, highlighting key lessons learned and the path forward. This paper provides an overview of WFP...
Colombia and Lebanon Evaluation Report: Measuring the impact of cash on child protection outcomes
Report
As humanitarian crises break down traditional protection mechanisms and the loss of income restricts access to basic resources, children become increasingly vulnerable to abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) is a critical modality that is increasingly being adopted...
Aligning Aid: Recipient perspectives on humanitarian cash and social protection in Ukraine
Report
In January 2023, Ground Truth Solutions and the CCD set out to understand the
experiences and perceptions of people who had applied for or received cash
assistance in Ukraine, both from humanitarian organisations and through government
social protection schemes. The Ukrainian cash response is the...
Cash and Vouchers Assistance (CVA) and Child Protection: Summary of practice and evidence from Save the Children programmes 2023 Edition
Report
In an effort to increase global knowledge and learning, Save the Children conducted a global review of twenty Country Offices and their programs in order to assess and highlight the impact that different forms of Cash and Vouchers Assistance (CVA) have on Child Protection (CP) outcomes, to identify...
Local leadership is what it took to make a CVA breakthrough in Sudan
Blog Post
When it came to the cash distribution in Sudan, local actors’ understanding of the target neighbourhood contexts and fast changing dynamics were central to success. Without local leadership there would have been no way forward for effective cash programming in Khartoum. NIDAA’s Sara Elgieli and...
Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) & Child Protection (CP) Global Study – Research Report in the DRC, Egypt, Lithuania and the Philippines
Report
Since 2022, Save the Children has been scaling up its use of CVA for Child Protection (CP) programming through various pilot projects.
Research was commissioned in four countries in 2022-23 to generate evidence and learning to inform the design of future programming but also to design a robust...
Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) for Health Outcomes: a case study in Peru
Case Study
This case study is drawn from Save the Children CVA operations in Peru between 2021 and 2023, focusing on the achievement of health outcomes for vulnerable Venezuelan migrants.
Following an overview of the contexts and of the needs, it deep dives into the technical design of the integrated program,...
Empowering Communities: Delivering rental assistance to conflict-affected households in Ukraine
Case Study
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. The active conflict continues two years on, with 3.67 million Ukrainians displaced internally and 5.97 million Ukrainians displaced across Europe. Given continued shelling, extensive damage to over 1.4 million homes, an estimated $10.5...
2024 ICVA Annual Conference Session 1 – Summary report
Report
Session One explored the importance of trust between NGOs to develop and agree approaches to humanitarian dilemmas and upholding the humanitarian principles, and how these very approaches can build or erode trust. The session used survey software to engage the audience on a variety of questions with 157...
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Social Protection as a Pathway to Sustaining Peace
Policy paper
Global crises are becoming the new normal. From climate change to the contemporary food price crisis, vulnerable populations – and especially rural people – are facing increasingly difficult odds of flourishing. Such challenges are even more pronounced where there is conflict, whose multidimensional...
Americas Regional Cash Working Group
Event
This is a Save the Date for the next Regional Cash Working Group meeting that will take place on Thursday, March 7th 2024, from 9 am to 11 am (Panamá local time) via online. The meeting will be conducted in Spanish with no translation: CALP strategy for 2024 (15 minutes) Presentation on the research...