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Camp Coordination, Camp Management and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Find out more about Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) in relation to Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). For the most up to date information visit the Global CCCM Cluster’s website.
Education and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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A brief introduction as to how Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) can support education outcomes. For the most up to date information please visit the Global Education Cluster’s website.
Protection and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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How can Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) support protection outcomes? Please find a brief summary below, and for the very latest information, refer to the Global Protection Cluster Task Team on Cash for Protection.
Shelter and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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How can Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) support shelter outcomes? Please find a brief summary below, and for the very latest information, refer to the Shelter and Cash Working Group.
WASH and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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How can Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) support WASH outcomes? Please find a brief summary below, and for the very latest information, refer to the WASH Cluster’s Cash and Markets Technical Working Group.
Mapping social protection and cash and voucher assistance
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In early 2019, the British Red Cross, in collaboration with students from the London School of Economics, conducted a mapping of a humanitarian cash initiatives that have linked to social protection in the context of humanitarian crises.
Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN)
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The Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network (ELAN) was active from 2016 to 2019 with the goal of improving the impact of humanitarian cash transfers through the appropriate use of payments technology. The network comprised service providers, humanitarian practitioners, and donors who research and...
Beneficiary Data Protection
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Data protection is the systematic application of a set of institutional, technical and physical safeguards that preserve the right to privacy with respect to the collection, storage, use, disclosure and disposal of personal data. Personal data includes all information that can be used to identify...
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.
Middle East and North Africa
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The CALP Network provides coordination, technical and policy support for organizations implementing or considering cash and voucher assistance in the MENA region. The CALP Network’s regional office for MENA is at Oxfam International, Amman, Jordan.
Mitigating risks of abuse of power in cash and voucher assistance
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Since July 2018, UNHCR and WFP are jointly identifying and mitigating risks of abuse of power by private sector service providers in the delivery of cash assistance to vulnerable populations. The project involves work with financial service providers (FSPs), traders and national regulators, as well as...
A guide to Cash and Voucher Assistance at Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week
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Don’t miss any of the sessions on cash and voucher assistance during the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week, which takes place in Geneva from 3 to 7 February 2020. On Monday 3 February, dive into the week with a session from the CALP Network on the Future of Financial Assistance: Supporting...
South Sudan Joint Market Monitoring Initiative (JMMI)
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In an effort to better inform cash-based interventions and understand market dynamics in South Sudan, the Joint Market Monitoring Initiative (JMMI) was created by the South Sudan Cash Working Group (CWG) in August 2019. The initiative is guided by the JMMI Technical Working Group (JMMI-TWG), led by REACH...
Recommendations on Leveraging Existing Protection Programming to Facilitate Access to ESSN
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At the request of the Inter Sector Working Group in Gaziantep and the Protection Working Group, the Cash-Based Interventions Technical Working Group (CBI TWG) produced an analysis of the need for cash-based interventions for people living under temporary protection (TP) or international protection (IP) in...
Americas
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The CALP Network provides capacity building, technical and coordination support to strengthen the community of practice in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. The CALP Network team working in the Americas are based in Washington, D.C. and Colombia.
Tracking Cash and Voucher Assistance
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We have committed to strengthening the scale and quality of cash and voucher assistance (CVA), but to measure our progress against this commitment, we must agree to a shared approach to collecting and analyzing data.
Monitoring and Evaluation
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The flexible and multisectoral nature of cash presents unique challenges when it comes to monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of humanitarian responses. Agreeing and using common indicators will help to ensure we are working together to improve the quality of cash and voucher assistance (CVA).
Multipurpose Cash Assistance
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Multipurpose cash assistance offers people affected by crises the flexibility and dignity to choose how to cover their needs. But humanitarian actors must find new ways of working together to ensure it is incorporated effectively into the humanitarian system.
Operational Models
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Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) can be delivered to people in crises more efficiently, effectively, and with more accountability, if responding agencies work together. But we need to generate evidence around which operational models work best for collaboration in different contexts.
Sector-specific Cash and Voucher Assistance
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As part of a sector-specific intervention, such as helping people affected by crises to access healthcare, or rebuild their livelihoods, cash and voucher assistance (CVA) may be provided as part of a package. But each sector requires different skills and considerations to ensure CVA is used and monitored...