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What are the benefits of Cash and Voucher Assistance in humanitarian action?
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Cash and voucher assistance is a popular and effective type of humanitarian aid. We explore the benefits of CVA including how it is usually preferred by crisis affected people.
Multipurpose cash assistance
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What is multipurpose cash assistance? We explore what this term means in the context of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance.
E-Cash Pilot: Digital Solutions for Rural Communities
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An innovative digital cash project piloted by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province has successfully demonstrated a new and more secure way of providing humanitarian assistance while significantly enhancing the inclusion and resilience of rural...
Event Report: The feasibility of a route-based approach with CVA: The case of Guatemala
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In 2022, CALP recognized the importance of human mobility and CVA and invited its network to contribute to the evidence and debate. CALP conducted the study People are on the move: Can the world of CVA keep up? Analysis of the use of CVA in the context of human mobility in the Americas examined the use of...
Pathways Toward a Green Humanitarian Response
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The humanitarian sector is grappling with the task of reducing its negative impacts upon the climate and environment. Despite growing awareness of the need to shift towards greener action, tangible change and outcomes have remained frustratingly limited, while the impacts of climate and environmental...
Webinar series: Exploring linkages between Cash and Voucher Assistance and Social Protection in West and Central Africa
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There was a lot of buzz on the need to link humanitarian assistance to social protection (SP) systems, especially during the COVID pandemic. The linkage should encompass various contexts from stable well-organised states, preferred context by development and social protection stakeholders, to conflict...
Addressing Negative Socioeconomic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic through Social Protection in Viet Nam – Supporting incomes and livelihoods with cash assistance in Dong Nai province
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In late April 2021, Viet Nam faced its fourth wave of COVID-19, with over 895 000 new cases reported. COVID-19 and related restrictions hindered livelihood options and vulnerable households faced financial stress to cover basic needs. Some of them lost their income and were unable to return to home...
RedRose presentation to Payments group – Notes, 13th February 2024
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These meeting notes give details to the Special Session held with RedRose on 13th February 2024, hosted by the Payments group.
The session began with RedRose presenting on its history, guiding principles, partners and five-year strategy. The group then posed a series of curated questions to understand...
Special session: Payments group, RedRose
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This special session of the Payment Solution Seekers roundtable group is part of a series of events that seeks to increase the surface area between private sector payment companies and Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) implementing organisations.
This event gives implementing organisations a chance to...
Caritas Westminster
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Tamdeen Youth Foundation
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Cash Plus and Integrated Programming
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Discover the value of Cash Plus, Complementary and Integrated Programming in humanitarian assistance. Learn how cash works alongside other approaches.
Roeland Hemsteede
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Dr. Roeland Hemsteede brings expertise on how stakeholder dynamics and power relations affect the design and implementation of humanitarian CVA. He has extensively studied CVA in Lesotho, Malawi, and Nepal and published his research in international journals.
Corinna Kreidler
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Independent Consultant, Humanitarian Assistance
Cash and Voucher Assistance: Breaking down barriers to SRH care in humanitarian settings
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Global commitments to universal health coverage mean that all people should have access to a full range of quality health services without financial hardship. Despite these commitments, populations affected by emergencies often face heightened barriers to accessing health services due to disruptions to...
The Risks of Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Is cash and voucher assistance risky? We examine this question and debunk some of the myths surrounding this form of humanitarian aid.
Increasing the use of cash – part of the answer to humanitarian funding cuts?
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CALP’s Director Karen Peachey argues that in the face of humanitarian funding cuts we need to be using the most cost-efficient tools available to us – and that cash fits the bill.
Year-End Post-Distribution Monitoring Report: UNHCR’s multi-purpose cash assistance to refugees in Egypt – 2023
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UNHCR uses cash-based interventions to provide protection, assistance, and services to the most vulnerable. From January to December 2023, UNHCR Egypt provided regular multipurpose cash assistance (MPCA) to 20,944 refugee and asylum seeker households from all nationalities, including new arrivals from...
Post-Distribution Monitoring of MCPA to Sudanese New Arrivals – Egypt 2023: A two-time UNICEF-funded cash assistance programme implemented by UNHCR
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UNHCR provided a multipurpose cash assistance funded by UNICEF to the most vulnerable new arrivals from Sudan, who were on UNHCR waiting list, to support them in covering their immediate needs, and mitigate potential protection risks, and also to reduce their resorting to negative coping strategies. The...
Community Insight Survey for Cash-Based Programs in Afghanistan
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The Community Insight Survey for Cash-Based Programs by iMMAP Inc. in Afghanistan provides critical insights into the effectiveness of cash-based humanitarian assistance in the country. Conducted across diverse regions of Afghanistan, the survey highlights the positive impact of cash assistance on...