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The CALP Network Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Quarterly Meeting
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CALP TAG quarterly meeting
CVA for Child Protection Outcomes: Case study from Cambodia
Video
Save the Children Cambodia and seven partner organizations are working to improve households’ ability to care for their children and achieve positive child protection outcomes. With support from USAID Cambodia and European Union in Cambodia, FCF|REACT is providing monthly cash transfers and supporting...
CVA for Health Outcomes: From evidence to practice in MENA
Webinar recording
Watch webinar recording here How can cash and voucher assistance be used to improve health outcomes for vulnerable people caught up in humanitarian crises? How is using CVA for health different to other forms of humanitarian cash programming? The CALP Network, with strong support from key stakeholders,...
Economic Relief, Recovery, And Resilience Assessment For Southern Iraq
Report
The profile of Southern Iraq varies from that of the Northern ‘conflict-affected’ governorates most heavily impacted by the conflict with the Islamic State between 2014-2017. Southern Iraq has seen chronic underinvestment since the 1980s, with cumulative impacts building across the Iran-Iraq War and...
Cash and Voucher Assistance for Education in Emergencies: Response Options Analysis and Targeting Methodologies
Members event
When: Wednesday 9 June 2021, 14:30 – 16:00 CET (90 minutes)
What: Response options analysis and targeting methodologies in cash and voucher assistance (CVA) for education in emergencies (EiE)
By whom: The Global Education Cluster Cash Task Team
The webinar will be moderated by Marco Grazia (Global...
Cash Hub Webinar 22: Fast Track Cash Preparedness – The use of Cash and Markets in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
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The COVID-19 response has been a catalyst for many Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies (NSs) to use Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). This Webinar will explain what Fast Track Cash Preparedness entails and how this differs from the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement standard Cash Preparedness. In this...
95 Organisations Sign Letter Calling for Strengthened Cash Coordination
News
Today a letter signed by 95 organisations was handed into the Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) urging the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) to take a decision on the leadership and scope of cash coordination in the coming year.
Call for Action: Resolution of Cash Coordination within the Humanitarian Architecture
Report
Global CWG Terms of Reference – 2021
Guidelines and Tools
The Global Cash Working Group (GCWG) (formerly the Geneva-based Cash Working Group (GbCWG)) was initially formed by practitioners in 2013 and led by ICRC and the CALP Network. In order to reflect a more inclusive and representative leadership arrangement and recognising the workload considerations from...
Eastern Africa Regional CWG Meeting on CVA for Health Outcomes: towards a regional action plan
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Workshop to facilitate exchange of learning on CVA for health outcomes, support improved coordination between cash and health actors and inform an action plan for CVA and health in the region. Participants will include both CVA and health practitioners in the region. Date and Time: 8 and 9 June, from...
Environmental checklist Review of environmental impact of Cash Based Interventions and in-kind assistance
Guidelines and Tools
This checklist has been developed based on the findings of the UNHCR study on
the Environmental Impacts of Cash Based Interventions (CBIs), to support multifunctional teams in charge of implementing cash assistance
Review of environmental impact of Cash Based Interventions and in-kind assistance
Report
This document presents the main findings and recommendations from an Arup review commissioned by UNHCR on the environmental impact of Cash-Based Interventions (CBIs) and in-kind assistance. It aims to fill a gap in humanitarian assistance knowledge, and to strengthen the ability of humanitarians to take...
CVA, the Environment and Climate Change
Collection
The potential role of Cash and Voucher assistance in addressing climate change and environmental degradation covers a broad range of issues and potential entry points. This includes how to appropriately integrate matters throughout the programme cycle.
Annex the CALP Network MENA study CVA for Health examples 2021
Guidelines and Tools
This protected spreadsheet is the accompanying Annex to the CALP Network study A ‘Stocktake’ of CVA for Health Outcomes in the MENA Region: Moving from Evidence to Practice’ and provides further details of the projects studied in the stocktaking exercise.
Looking Through an Environmental Lens – Implications and opportunities for Cash Transfer Programming in humanitarian response
Report
This study reviews the tensions between the use of cash-like assistance and negative environmental impacts in the humanitarian assistance process and defines a diagnostic framework for assessing these impacts to define how to make assistance transfers in a way which minimizes the potential for negative...
CVA for Health Outcomes: From evidence to practice in MENA
Webinar
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 15:00 AMM | 13:00 UK
Somalia CVA Case Study: Cash and Voucher Assistance and Gender-Based Violence Risk Mitigation
Report
In order to better understand the potential risks for women and girls that may be created by the provision of humanitarian cash assistance, Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) experts from Somalia worked closely together to evaluate existing CVA interventions in Somalia and...
June 2021 Global Cash Working Group Presentation Slides
Presentation
This slide deck is a combination of the slides presented by the Global Cash Working Group, as well as the slides from the presenters.
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Feasibility and Risk Analysis Sudan
Case Study
Summary findings UN agencies and NGOs are all in the process of starting up or scaling up cash transfers with many other agencies active in the Cash Working Group while WFP is considered as the biggest Cash actor. There is a strong direction from the government at the national level to use cash based...
Global Cash Working Group
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The Global Cash Working Group meeting will meet for 90 minutes Tuesday, 01 June at 8 am ET/2 pm CET/3 pm EAT. You can confirm your timezone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html The thematic focus of the meeting will be on “Response Planning.” A detailed agenda with speakers will...