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SPACE – Options for rapid delivery (payment) of cash transfers for COVID-19 responses and beyond
Guidelines and Tools
This note describes the main strategies used by, and available to, countries to deliver cash support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of the note is to inform both ongoing responses to COVID-19 and medium to long term investments in delivery mechanisms that could be used to respond to...
Cash Crash: Syria’s economic collapse and the fragmentation of the state
Report
The Syrian economy is currently witnessing unprecedented volatility. To date, analysts have predominantly focused on the impact this crash has had on Syrian households, which are now facing acute financial pressure as poverty rates climb toward 90 percent, food insecurity skyrockets, and famine becomes an...
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) & Housing, Land, and Property Rights
Report
The right to adequate housing has been recognized as an essential component to an adequate standard of living.1 The centrality of the right to adequate housing, which encompasses concepts such as security of tenure, affordability and habitability, are intimately related to livelihood building.2...
Linking Humanitarian Cash and Social Protection for an Effective Cash Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Report
The Grand-Bargain (GB) Sub-group on Linking Humanitarian Cash and Social Protection issues a 1-pager calling on all GB signatories to use all means at their disposal to deliver on their commitment to link humanitarian cash and social protection where appropriate for an effective cash response to the...
Cash and Voucher Assistance Case Studies – Yemen and Afghanistan
Report
Evidence and feasibility of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) for sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian emergencies. There is limited evidence about the effectiveness and feasibility of CVA, and about its overall effect on SRHR outcomes, particularly in humanitarian settings. Therefore,...
A Call for Action: Increase the Uptake of Cash Transfers to Ensure Rapid Response in case of Shocks
Guidelines and Tools
Despite a growing global interest in cash and voucher assistance since the beginning of the pandemic, the modality is still insufficiently used to limit the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in West and Central Africa, both by governments and humanitarian actors. This call to action, developed...
Busting myths and addressing assumptions against CVA in the region in the COVID context
Guidelines and Tools
Linking Social Protection and Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance
Report
There is a growing momentum and body of work around the idea of developing stronger links between humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and social protection (SP). This Briefing Paper for the CALP Network, based on a literature review, a survey, and interviews, is intended to inform the CALP...
COVID-19 & Urgent Need for Child-Sensitive Social Protection
Policy paper
The COVID-19 pandemic is negatively affecting children’s lives in a myriad of ways. Well-intentioned government containment and response efforts such as movement restrictions and school closures have disrupted education for more than 1.5 billion students, leaving some of the most vulnerable children...
COVID-19: Invest now in cash/voucher-social protection scale-up or children pay the price later
Report
Read the article here. Only socially accountable Social Protection Assistance beyond humanitarian cash/voucher programmes – if properly and quickly implemented – will protect generations of children from the aftershocks of COVID-19. Despite cash and voucher transfers becoming the tool of choice of...
Collaborative Cash Delivery Network – Grand Bargain – Collaboration Agreement Accomplishments 2020
Report
The Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network is pleased to present its achievements against the commitments made by our global members’ CEOs at the 2019 Grand Bargain Summit as part of our global collaboration agreement. We know we are better together, and in this time of increasing pressure on the...
CVA & COVID-19: Remote Market Assessment and Monitoring
Blog Post
As field practitioners adapt their programmes to COVID-19, colleagues across our membership and Cash Working Groups are identifying multiple challenges. The CALP Network is working with others to develop a series of short, field-focused recommendations for such practitioners. The purpose of this series is...
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The CALP Network, working with a range of organisations, has developed a series of short, field-focused recommendations for practitioners.
Global Remittances to Suffer a Blow From COVID-19
Blog Post
The CALP Network’s Future of Financial Assistance report highlighted the importance for CVA actors of working with and alongside other financial flows, which often dwarf volumes of humanitarian aid in crisis contexts. Of these flows, remittances are a critical lifeline for many crisis-affected...
YCash (National Cash Transfer Company)
Member
National Cash Transfer Company (YCash) is the first company specialized in the provision of social cash transfer services in Yemen partnering with financial service providers and NGOs
Why use cash transfers to respond to COVID-19?
Guidelines and Tools
It is a one pager document showing advantages of using cash transfers in COVID-19 response together with some examples of integrating cash with different sectors.
COVID-19 Adaptation to Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Intervention
Guidelines and Tools
The aim of this technical guidance is to support the team in designing and implementing CVA programmes in both development and humanitarian settings to adapt interventions in response to the Covid19 outbreak, in order to:
1. Support adequate prevention and response to Covid19, and
2. Ensure that the CVA...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Social Protection, Gender Equality and Humanitarian Cash under COVID-19 Context
Guidelines and Tools
This document is prepared for Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Program technical staff who are particularly working at Country Offices, and who still have limited experience on integrating a gender aware humanitarian cash approach within the Social Protection Programming. The document aims to provide...
Gender Aware Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Programming Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Guidelines and Tools
This FAQ is prepared for the CVA Professional to build their basic concept on gender as well as to provide simple techniques on mainstreaming gender into CVA interventions. Please contact Aftab Alam (Aftab.Alam@plan-international.org) for further information and assistance.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) COVID-19 and Gender Aware Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Programming
Policy paper
This FAQ is prepared for the CVA professional to build their technical capacity in relation to use of cash and voucher transfers across the sectors particularly under COVID-19 response.