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Tunaydbah Cash and Market Assessment – International Rescue Committee
Case Study
Following the influx of refugees from the Tigray region of Ethiopia into Sudan in late 2020, the IRC launched an emergency response focused on primary healthcare, environmental health, and protection. To ensure people can meet their basic needs and avoid negative coping strategies, the IRC secured funding...
What are future financing options for shock responsive social protection? A technical primer
Guidelines and Tools
This paper aims to advance these discussions in a number of ways. As ‘financing for SRSP’ is understood differently by different people, it starts by providing greater clarity on what this term constitutes, and its relation to disaster risk finance. It acknowledges the broad potential remit of...
SPACE Gender and Social Protection in the COVID-19 Economic Recovery: Opportunities and Challenges
Policy paper
This paper analyses the potential contribution of social protection to a gender-transformative economic recovery over the medium term, defined as running from the present to the end of 2022. It builds on the existing Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19 Expert (SPACE) advice publication; SPACE Social...
SPACE Summary Brief: What are future financing options for shock responsive social protection?
Guidelines and Tools
This paper, and the longer Technical Primer that accompanies it, are designed to inform discussions around financing shock-responsive social protection (SRSP). It starts by clarifying terms and providing a framing to guide approaches to SRSP financing. It then provides a high-level overview of current and...
GBV Risk Mitigation: An Analysis of the CARE Somalia Integrated Relief &Recovery Program (ISRP) Multipurpose Cash.
Report
This is a learning brief that highlights the GBV risk mitigation analysis of CARE’s ISRP Project (Economic Recovery Sector ) funded by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), The CARE Project was applied as one of the case studies for the inter-agency Somalia GBV Risk mapping in CVA projects.
SPACE Social protection and climate change: scaling up ambition (Summary Brief)
Policy paper
Climate change, once perceived as a long-term environmental issue, is now an immediate threat to safety and prosperity, especially for the most vulnerable people that are hit hardest by increasing weather extremes. The impacts cannot be managed just by reducing greenhouse gas emissions or by small tweaks...
Social protection and climate change: scaling up ambition
Policy paper
Social protection can be a strategic tool for climate risk management and provides an important answer to the current calls for climate action and for increased resilience as we recover from COVID-19. The Paris Agreement demands rapid action to keep the average temperature from rising above 1.5 degrees,...
SPACE What are future financing options for shock responsive social protection? (Summary Brief)
Policy paper
This paper, and the longer Technical Primer that accompanies it, are designed to inform discussions around financing shock-responsive social protection (SRSP). It starts by clarifying terms and providing a framing to guide approaches to SRSP financing. It then provides a high-level overview of current and...
SPACE Better responding to shocks through social protection: COVID-19 insights on identifying and responding to dynamic poverty
Policy paper
The Coronavirus pandemic has affected substantial proportions of the population raising questions about how social protection systems could be used to respond. One of the key policy questions emerging is how to deal with a sudden, large-scale increase in poverty levels. This paper relies on pre-existing...
SPACE Drivers of Timely and Large-Scale Cash Responses to COVID-19: what does the data say?
Guidelines and Tools
This note compares the experiences of 53 low- and middle-income countries to identify drivers of timely and large-scale government social assistance responses to COVID-19. The analysis covers cash responses only and focuses on the capacity of the social protection sector and beyond. It compares response...
Forecast based financing – lessons learned on early actions with cash transfers
Report
The objective of the document is to present the lessons learned related to the implementation of early actions with cash transfers as part of the forecast-based financing mechanism implemented by the World Food Programme in the Yaque del Norte watershed in the Dominican Republic.
Cash and vouchers can improve health outcomes – but you must understand the challenges first
Blog Post
In this blog, we focus on the challenges related to achieving health-related outcomes through Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in humanitarian response. Using CVA to advance health outcomes is different from using CVA in other contexts and challenges practitioners to work in new...
Cash and Voucher Assistance for Clearance, Land Release and Survivor Assistance
Members event
This event will take place as part of the 24th International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and United Nations Advisers. The event will look at findings from research on the extent to which CVA has been leveraged to improve protection outcomes in Mine Action. It will flag institutional...
Pauline Pérez
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Location: United Kingdom
Confidence and usage of ATMs
Report
For the reports click here The World Food Programme (WFP) supports Syrian refugee families living in extreme poverty in Lebanon by providing them with multi-purpose cash (MPC) transfers to meet their basic needs. WFP loads the assistance on an e-card, called the Red Card, each month and programme...
CALP Board Meeting
Members event
CALP Board Meeting – quarterly
Cash Hub Webinar 21: Contracting and Working with Financial Service Providers – The Use of Cash & Markets in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
Members event
Financial Service Providers (FSPs) are often critical to allow cash and voucher assistance (CVA) at scale. In this Webinar we will introduce some of the experiences, challenges and learning from contracting and working with FSPs. ICRC will share its experience on this topic from Nigeria and Ethiopia. The...
World Humanitarian Forum 2021
Members event
World Humanitarian Forum (WHF) is the largest and most inclusive nonpartisan forum in humanitarian aid and international development. WHF brings together decision-makers and opinion-formers in the public, private and non-profit sectors, as well as the next generation of partnership-builders.
Minding the (financial and digital) gap! – How informal social safety nets leverage digital & cash enablers in COVID-19 pandemic
Presentation
Minding the (financial and digital) gap! – How informal social safety nets leverage digital & cash enablers in COVID-19 pandemic: In every context, strengthening the links between cash transfers, savings groups and digitisation contributes to resilient recovery from COVID-19. Representatives of...
Human-centred design and humanitarian cash programming
Members event
In this interactive webinar we will share highlights from the recent GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation report Mobile money enabled cash assistance: User journeys in Burundi. Additionally, in conversation with representatives from Concern Burundi, Cassava Fintech Burundi and Ground Truth Solutions,...