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Rosa Akbari
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Rosa Akbari is a Senior Advisor with the Technology for Development team at Mercy Corps. She helps teams leverage lowest common denominator technologies throughout Mercy Corps’ field work, with special focus on humanitarian cash and voucher assistance. Rosa has worked at the intersect of humanitarian...
Tim McInerny
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Tim is Global Advisor – Cash & Markets with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Tim provides technical and strategic support on cash and markets across NRC’s programmes worldwide. Tim has over a decade of experience in the humanitarian sector, working with both response, recovery and DRR with the Red...
Louise Gentzel
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Worked with the UN in different capacities since 2002, including with OCHA, WFP, UNICEF and DPKO at HQ and field level (Sudan / Syria Crisis, Amman). Focusing on OCHA’s role in integrating cash into coordination structures and processes since 2016, including through support to field offices and as OCHA...
Ethiopia Cash Working Group
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The Ethiopia Cash Working Group brings together actors involved in Cash and Voucher Assistance in Ethiopia on a monthly basis. The Cash Working Group is co-chaired by UNOCHA and an NGO, with the NGO co-chair role rotating among group members. For more information, please contact the Chair, Jennie...
South Sudan Cash Working Group
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The Inter-Agency Cash Working Group South Sudan (IACWG SS) is an active coordination body in South Sudan, established in 2015. It serves as a medium for coordination, communication, information sharing, technical discussions and acts as a platform which provides an opportunity to various Cash and Voucher...
Uganda Cash Working Group
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The Uganda Cash Working Group brings together actors involved in Cash and Voucher Assistance in Uganda. The CWG was launched in December 2016. The country currently hosts more than 870,000 refugees, and increasingly agencies are looking at how to provide quality humanitarian assistance through cash...
Malawi Cash Working Group
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Asia and Pacific
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The CALP Network provides coordination, technical and policy support for organizations implementing or considering cash and voucher assistance in the Asia Pacific region. The CALP Network’s regional office is at Action Against Hunger in Manila, Philippines.
Asia Cash Working Groups
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Americas Cash Working Groups
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Countries with an asterisk* currently do not have an established Cash Working Group, however a CVA focal point is listed.
Middle East and North Africa Cash Working Groups
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Core CVA Skills for Supply Chain, Finance and ICT Staff
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The Fritz Institute in collaboration with IRC, have produced modules based on the content of the 5-day face-to-face training for the Core CVA Skills for Supply Chain, Finance & ICT Staff course.
West and Central Africa
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The CALP Network supports actors working in cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in West and Central Africa. The CALP team supporting this region are based in the Action Against Hunger office in Dakar, Sénégal. The CALP Network provides support for CVA coordination, capacity building and knowledge...
West and Central Africa Cash Working Groups
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Somalia Cash Working Group
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The Somalia Cash Working Group brings together actors involved in Cash and Voucher Assistance in Somalia. It guides the community of practice on recommended transfer values pegged to the Somalia Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) which is updated and published by FSNAU. With support from REACH, they compile...
Introduction to Market Analysis
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This 30 minute online course provides an introduction to the analysis of markets in emergency contexts, with input from some of the world’s leading thinkers on the topic.
A Practical Guide to Market Analysis in Humanitarian response
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A three to four hour online course designed to provide future humanitarian market assessment team members with a solid understanding of theory and steps of market assessments so that they can join assessment teams prepared with a basic understanding of what they will be doing and why.
The Remote Cash Course
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This course is for any humanitarian staff who may be involved in delivering cash remotely. It is designed for partner and field staff in hard to reach areas where sticking to normal best practice is impossible.
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) – The Fundamentals
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This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn more about cash and voucher assistance in humanitarian contexts, and will introduce you to the fundamentals of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). No knowledge of CVA is required to do this course, so if you a complete beginner don't worry, you are in...
Practical Scenario: Monitoring and Adapting Cash and Voucher Assistance
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This scenario based course takes around 2 hours to complete and allows learners to practice using their Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) knowledge and skills in a programmatic setting.