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Food Security and Cash and Voucher Assistance

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A brief introduction as to how Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) can support food security outcomes. For the most up to date information please visit the Food Security Cluster Cash and Market Working Group web page.

17 March 2020

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...

17 March 2020

Jenny Coneff

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Abigael Baldoumas

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Alex Jacobs

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The Case for Cash in Responding to Humanitarian Crises in Malawi

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A policy paper by the Malawi INGO Cash Consortium which makes the case for cash assistance as a response modality to humanitarian crises. It gives a brief overview of global evidence for cash and previous cash experience in Malawi, and makes several key recommendations. One of these key recommendations is...

12 March 2020

Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff

Training

The Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff course is a 5-day training for programme staff responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring cash and voucher assistance.

9-13 March 2020 9:00-17:00 / New York City, United States / English

Submit a blog idea

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Do you have an idea for a blog related to humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA)? If so please send it our way. CALP regularly publishes guest blogs from a wide variety of sources covering new perspectives, research, stories, advice and news. Publishing a blog on CALP's website is a great way to...

5 March 2020

East and Southern Africa Cash Working Group Leads meeting

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4 March 2020 / Nairobi / English

The Potential Mortality Effects of Physical Currency

Policy paper

The extent to which banknotes may or may not play a direct role in ‘the chain of communicable disease transmission’ has been questioned during the Covid-19 response. Whether they do or they don’t is perhaps less relevant than the belief among ‘at risk’ populations that they do. And this belief...

2 March 2020

Plan International: COVID-19 Adaptations to Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Interventions

Guidelines and Tools

The aim of this technical guidance is to support the team in designing and implementing Cash & Voucher Assistance (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,...

March 2020

Cash Working Group Leads Meeting Report – March 2020

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The Cash Working Group leads/co-leads meeting is a forum intended to provide a space for reflection, peer learning and developing solutions to shared challenges. This year’s meeting agenda and content were guided by requests from and contributions by participants. This report summarizes the discussions...

March 2020

Oxfam cash distribution in Iraq

The CALP Network Glossary in Arabic: A common understanding and greater consistency

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The first version of the CALP Network Glossary of Terms was published in 2011. This aimed to encourage mutual understanding, and increase coordination and clarity when it comes to the terms and definitions used in the world of cash and voucher assistance (CVA). Since our work began in the MENA region,...

27 February 2020

Benjamin Sivasima

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Benjamin K. SIVASIMA joined UNICEF in 2013 as a social policy specialist in Mali, focusing on social protection, child poverty analysis and Cash Transfer programming activities. In 2017, he joined the social policy section in West and Central Africa Regional Office in Senegal as a social policy and...

Boukari OUEDRAOGO

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Boukari OUEDRAOGO has over 13 years of experience in the development sector, with 11 years of spent at the Ministry of Social Affairs. Since 2016, Boukari is the Child-sensitive Social Protection Technical Adviser at Save the Children International Burkina Faso, where he focuses on designing,...

Boureima Lionel OUEDRAOGO

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Lionel has been the CVA Focal Point in FAO Burkina since 2013 and Head of FAO Sub-Office in the North Central Region, Co-lead of the Working Group on CVA in Burkina Faso since 2014. He has a total of 15 years of experience, including 5 years in the Ministry in charge of Agriculture in Burkina Faso and 10...

Cedric Regede

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Cedric is a seasoned Food Security and Livelihoods Specialist with knowledge and practical experience in project design and implementation. He also has experience in Project resources management wwith excellent report writing and team building skills.

Floride Tankalet

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Florida Tankalet is Food Security and Livelihood Coordinator at the NGO World Vision International CAR since July 2018.

Mouhamadou Hamadjoda

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Hamadjoda is a Humanitarian Cash Transfer Specialist with an extensive background in Food Security, Economy, Environment and Cash Transfer Programming. Graduated in International Development, Project Management and International Governance and Diplomacy – MSc, BSc, BA, he spearheaded several Cash...