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Migrating with dignity: MPCA to Venezuelan families in Peru
Video
Watch the video here In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Peru. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative...
MPCA ‘Plus’ assistance to people on the move: the case of Venezuelans in Peru
Video
Watch the video here This video documents the MPCA ‘Plus’ program implemented by Save the Children Peru in response to the Venezuelan crisis, and more specifically highlights the provision of assistance to families on the move, or ‘transiting’ through Peru. Beneficiaries were identified throughout...
Migrating with dignity: MPCA to Venezuelan families in Peru
Blog Post
Watch the video here In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Peru. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative...
10 Things you Wish you’d Always Known About Shock-responsive Social Protection
Guidelines and Tools
Download the publication file and the one-page summary here Improving the ‘shock-responsiveness’ of social protection—in other words, its relevance to large-scale natural, economic and political shocks—is an appealing prospect both for governments and for their partners working in social...
MPCA ‘Plus’ assistance to people on the move: the case of Venezuelans in Peru
Blog Post
Watch the video here This video documents the MPCA ‘Plus’ program implemented by Save the Children Peru in response to the Venezuelan crisis, and more specifically highlights the provision of assistance to families on the move, or ‘transiting’ through Peru. Beneficiaries were identified throughout...
Jo-Anne Witcombe
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Location: United Kingdom
CVA for COVID-19: Listen to people and act on what they say
Blog Post
Not everyone will be personally affected by the COVID-19 health crisis, but nearly every household will feel its effects economically. For many people in humanitarian crises, particularly those at the margins of society, the economic impact of COVID-19 will be greater and longer-lasting than the health...
Systematization document regional learning event: Linking cash and voucher assistance with social protection systems
Report
The purpose of this document is to systematize the process of organizing the Regional Learning Event on “Linking Cash and Voucher Assistance with Social Protection Systems”, convened by REDLAC and the Regional Cash Working Group -R4V for May 20th, 2021.
The Grand Bargain’s Working Cash Workstream,...
Q&A on the Call to Action Letter on Cash Coordination
Report
CVA & COVID-19: Adapting Delivery Mechanisms
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...
CashCap in a Meaningful Dialogue with Communities
Policy paper
This document capitalizes a journey CashCap decided to embark on during 2019, to answer to the following question: How can CashCap be more engaged with, and more accountable to the communities it serves? Special thanks to the 40+ women and men in Uganda and Colombia that engaged in a meaningful dialogue...
From Mistrust to Complementarity: The Partnership between NGOs and Private Companies in the Provision of Humanitarian Aid in the Form of Cash
Report
This article provides arguments to understand the rationale behind the use of cash transfers as a reference tool in humanitarian contexts. It seeks to offer more clarity about the roles and potential synergies between the traditional stakeholders of the sector (NGOs, international organisations), and the...
Returns from Iran and Pakistan Funding Needs
Report
As of 23 June 2018, 348,506 undocumented Afghan returnees have crossed back into Afghanistan from Iran. The months of April and May have witnessed an average of 20,000 returns each week. The total represents a 50% increase of returns over the same period in 2017. The larger return is associated with a...
Webinar sobre Género, Programas de Transferencias Monetarias y COVID-19
Webinar
Grabación | Presentación Jueves, 4 de junio 2:30-4pm (hora de Ciudad de Panamá/Bogotá) Nos complace invitarle a asistir a un webinar sobre el tema de género y los programas de transferencias monetarias (PTM) en el contexto de COVID-19 organizado conjuntamente por la CALP Network, WFP, CARE...
The Impact of The COVID-19 Development on Beneficiaries of Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) Program
Report
As of 19 April 2020, the Ministry of Health reported more than 86,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases with almost 2,000 deaths in Turkey. The Government of Turkey has introduced a series of containment
measures, including closing of schools, shopping malls and businesses; a curfew for individuals above 65 or...
So COVID-19, there’s an app for that…
Blog Post
In an earlier blog we explored the implications of COVID-19 adaptations in CVA response on an individuals’ right to privacy. We also argued that data portability in CVA could be explored as part of an opportunity to build back better. In this guest blog from Alesh Brown, founder at TrustWorks.io, we...
The Caribbean is ‘cash ready’ – but are humanitarian actors?
Blog Post
The Caribbean Atlantic hurricane season starts today, amidst the unprecedented COVID-19 response. At the launch of the CALP Network’s “Winds of Change” briefing note on the use of CVA in the Caribbean, Ms. Andria Grosvenor, Acting Deputy Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency...
Introduction to Market Based Programming in Emergency WASH
Webinar
Examples and Good Practices on the Use of Multi-Purpose Cash in the Food Security Sector
Guidelines and Tools
This global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) document was produced by the Cash and Markets Working Group (CMWG) to highlight the role and engagement of food security actors through different country experiences and good practices.
In recent years, multi-purpose cash (MPC) has been adopted more widely to...
Interim Guidance note on the role of Cash and Voucher Assistance to reduce financial barriers in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in contexts targeted by the Global Humanitarian Response Plan COVID-19
Guidelines and Tools
This paper provides general guidance on identifying financial barriers, and considering supply side financing options and complementary CVA within the broader response interventions to Covid-19.