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Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 1 April 2020
Meeting minutes
Meeting on CVA and COVID19
CCD Social Protection Working Group: Advocacy in response to COVID-19
Policy paper
The need for social protection in response to COVID-19: COVID-19 has an unprecedented impact globally in terms of access to and the capacity of healthcare systems to respond. The health crisis is yet to peak in many countries and in low income contexts, the concern is that its impact will be severe where...
Mercy Corps’ tipsheet No 4: CVA and Social Protection Systems
Guidelines and Tools
Mercy Corps’ Tipsheet 4 – CVA and Social Protection Systems
Tipsheet: CVA and social protection systems (COVID-19)
Guidelines and Tools
Building on the Covid-19 and CVA, the Payments and Digital Data Management, Door-to-Door Distributions and Group Distributions tipsheets, this fourth guidance note offers a brief summary on how to approach anticipated or planned scale up in government-led efforts to combat the economic impacts of Covid-19...
MERS Guidance in Response to COVID-19
Guidelines and Tools
Markets play a critical role in how people survive, as well as being physical places where people meet to buy and sell goods. As COVID-19 disrupts the normal activities and relationships of communities we can look to the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards for some guidance on what to do. Now, when social...
COVID-19 and CVA: how are operational actors responding?
Blog Post
“The COVID-19 pandemic will have devastating consequences on people’s livelihoods and employment, especially in post-fragile, crisis and post-crisis environments.” Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19 We don’t yet know exactly how the COVID-19 pandemic will be experienced by the world’s...
Looking into 2020: short overview on global clusters, CVA and the CALP Network
Presentation
Overview as 2020 begins:
• Significant progress and commitment from all global clusters on integration of CVA into their work.
• Significant interest in different regions and by some donors on sector-specific CVA.
• Challenges that remain:
o Dialogue: 1) Ensuring CVA specialists...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – COVID-19 and Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Programming
Guidelines and Tools
This document has enlisted some key questions and their possible solutions in relation to COVID-19 response through cash and/or vouchers. This is a live document, which will be updated periodically.
Mercy Corps Tipsheet No 3: Door to Door Distributions
Guidelines and Tools
Mercy Corps Tipsheet No 3: Door to Door Distributions
WFP – Guidance for Cash-based Transfers in the Context of the Covid-19 Outbreak
Guidelines and Tools
The objectives of this document are:
1- Provide guidance and advice on operational continuity while reducing the risk of contamination.
2- Communicate clear changes/simplification in required procedures for planning, designing, implementing, sustaining and scaling up CBT operations in the field (With a...
Sphere: Humanitarian Standards and Coronavirus 2020
Guidelines and Tools
Coronavirus is spreading globally. How can individuals, communities,
humanitarian actors, local and national authorities best respond to uphold the rights of all affected people?
Mercy Corps Tipsheet: CVA payments and digital data management
Guidelines and Tools
Building off the COVID-19 and CVA tipsheet , this guidance helps you think through considerations to be making alongside your current payment providers. This also includes tips on if/when/how to anticipate
transitions to newly viable forms of transfer mechanisms/technologies in a given context.
Cash and Voucher Assistance and the Covid-19 Outbreak, Syria
Guidelines and Tools
This documents intents to provide guidance and advice on how to best adapt Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) programming during the current Covid-19 outbreak and specifically how to manage CVA during the outbreak and how to operate while reducing the risk of contamination
This document is a compilation of...
CVA and COVID-19
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We hope that you are all staying well in these uncertain times. As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, it seems every community will be touched in some way – whether directly by the virus or by the economic and other impacts it is having. There has been a significant amount of...
ICRC Tipsheet: Cash and Voucher Assistance and COVID-19
Guidelines and Tools
This tipsheet serves as guidance to help field teams think through different ways:
1) to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 through ongoing Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA);
2) inform the adaptation of CVA in the context of COVID-19;
3) promote sensitivity to evolving markets dynamics.
This tipsheet is...
The CALP Network Venezuela Scoping Mission Findings
Report
In December 2019, a the CALP Network team interviewed operational actors involved in the implementation and coordination of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in Venezuela. Given the unique challenges of the Venezuela context and the perception globally that risk is the primary barrier to the greater use...
CVA and Gender in West and Central Africa
Event
Presentation of the Draft of the CALP Network’s 2020+ Strategy (Americas/Europe/Africa time zones)
Webinar
Presentation of the draft of the CALP Network’s 2020+ strategy (East Africa/MENA/Asia Pacific time zones)
Webinar
Mercy Corps Tipsheet: COVID-19 and CVA
Guidelines and Tools
This tipsheet serves as guidance to help field teams think through different ways to mitigate the spread and impact of Covid-19 through ongoing cash and voucher assistance (CVA), inform the adaption of CVA programming in the context of Covid-19, and promote sensitivity to changing market dynamics and...