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Cash and Voucher Assistance and Risk: Perception vs Reality Grand Bargain Cash Workstream Annual Virtual Meeting
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You are invited to a webinar hosted by the CALP Network and WFP under the Grand Bargain cash workstream annual virtual meeting umbrella. Is cash assistance riskier than in-kind? All the evidence says no, but we still act as if it is. Join us for this important conversation diving into the world of CVA and...
The State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Full report
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Since the first State of the World’s Cash report we have seen huge developments in cash and voucher assistance (CVA), with a continued increase in scale driving changing roles and partnerships, and a growing emphasis on quality. This new report, State of the World’s Cash 2020, examines progress,...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 Chapter 9: Covid-19 and CVA: Impacts and implications of the crisis and response
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CVA SCALE-UP, NEEDS, AND FUNDING CVA is being scaled up significantly in response to COVID-19, but the gap between needs and funding is growing rapidly. There is no evidence that the scale up of CVA to date has impacted the quality of programming. However, within a context of tightening budgets,...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Chapter 7: CVA integration with local systems
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For a relevant and sustainable response , the role of local actors and local systems is critical. There is a growing consensus regarding the importance of localisation within CVA, but little clarity on how to drive this forward in practice. Progress on localisation requires humanitarian actors to be...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 Chapter 2: Mainstreaming CVA – progress; risks & challenges
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PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES CVA, including multipurpose cash, is an increasingly common and well-understood tool in humanitarian response, but barriers remain to its use. To ensure that CVA is used wherever it is the most appropriate tool, there is a need for stronger response analysis, but this faces...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Chapter 5: Coordination
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There has been very limited progress on cash coordination since 2017. Cash continues to challenge the established coordination and funding architecture, and efforts to resolve outstanding questions around cash coordination have failed. Despite the lack of global agreement, Cash Working Groups are pushing...
Analysis of key value chains (wheat and wool), with a special focus on the light manufacturing sector in Mosul
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DRC has commissioned this study with the end objective of providing access to market opportunities for privately-owned small and medium enterprises and job opportunities for conflict-affected men, women and youth. For that purpose, DRC has taken a marketsystem and value-chain approach to development and...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 Chapter 7: CVA integration with local systems
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MAIN FINDINGS There is a growing consensus on the importance of localisation within CVA. But this broad agreement is yet to evolve into a common understanding of what localisation means in practice and which aspects to prioritise. Perceptions of the capacity of local organizations...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Chapter 4 summary: Build sufficient capacity for Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Since 2018 individual and organisational CVA capacities have improved, and are having a positive impact on the timeliness and scale of CVA. But dedicated funding for CVA capacity building is generally insufficient and unpredictable and recruiting and retaining skilled staff remains a challenge. This...
State of the World’s Cash 2020: Introduction and methodology
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Since the first State of the World’s Cash Report was published in February 2018, the use of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) has grown and diversified within a rapidly shifting humanitarian landscape. This new report examines progress, changes, and challenges over the last two years.
State of the World’s Cash 2020 Chapter 3 summary: Quality programming
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67% of practitioners report that the quality of CVA has increased in the last two years. The focus for improving CVA has gradually shifted from increased scale, to improved quality and more recently towards quality as defined by outcomes for recipients. This chapter asks: ‘How can we continue to...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Chapter 2 summary: Mainstreaming CVA – progress; risks & challenges
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CVA is an increasingly common and well-understood tool in humanitarian response – 85% of practitioners perceive that there has been more systematic consideration of CVA over the last 2 years.This chapter asks: ‘How can ambitions for scaling up CVA be met whilst also pushing for better, more...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 Chapter 6B summary: Investing in innovation for CVA
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Since 2017, the appetite for CVA innovation has decreased slightly as has the percentage of practitioners (46%) who agree that humanitarian agencies and private sector actors are developing effective working relationships in CVA programmes. Despite this, digital finance and the use of mobile money has...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 Chapter 9 summary: Covid-19 and CVA: Impacts and implications of the crisis and response
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CVA is being scaled up significantly in response to COVID-19, but the overall gap between needs and funding is growing rapidly. The pandemic has incurred an extraordinary human cost, but also presents an opportunity to redefine the humanitarian system to better serve the needs of crisis-affected people....
State of the World’s Cash 2020 Chapter 5 summary: Coordination
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There has been very limited progress on cash coordination since 2017. Cash continues to challenge the established coordination and funding architecture, and efforts to resolve outstanding questions around cash coordination have failed. Despite the lack of global agreement, Cash Working Groups are pushing...
The State of the World’s Cash 2020
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The State of the World’s Cash 2020 provides a comprehensive snapshot of cash and voucher assistance (CVA), with significant recommendations for anyone interested in humanitarian action. This report follows on from the first report, a seminal piece, published in 2018. Since then CVA has continued to grow...
The State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Executive summary
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The State of the World’s Cash 2020 provides a comprehensive snapshot of cash and voucher assistance (CVA), with significant recommendations for anyone interested in humanitarian action. This report follows on from the first report, a seminal piece, published in 2018. Since then CVA has continued to grow...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Chapter 6B: Investing in innovation for CVA
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Since 2017, the appetite for CVA innovation has decreased slightly as has the percentage of practitioners (46%) who agree that humanitarian agencies and private sector actors are developing effective working relationships in CVA programmes. Despite this, digital finance and the use of mobile money has...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 Chapter 6A: Evidence, learning & information sharing
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FILLING THE EVIDENCE GAPS CVA research and learning has moved from proof of concept to a focus on programme quality and filling evidence gaps. Lack of evidence is not generally perceived as an immediate inhibitor of quality programming, though it remains a more significant issue at sectoral...
State of the World’s Cash 2020 – Chapter 4: Build sufficient capacity for cash and voucher assistance
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Since 2018 individual and organisational CVA capacities have improved, and are having a positive impact on the timeliness and scale of CVA. But dedicated funding for CVA capacity building is generally insufficient and unpredictable and recruiting and retaining skilled staff remains a challenge. This...