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The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) is dedicated to improving assessments of humanitarian needs in complex emergencies and crisis through the provision of context-specific information and analysis.
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Events, webinars and training from our members.
Multi-Purpose Cash Transfer ‘Plus’: Maximizing impact on children through integrated cash-based programming
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In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Colombia. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative coping strategies,...
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To ensure cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is routinely considered by humanitarian actors when designing an intervention, we must address the perceptions and myths that it is a riskier form of response than others.
Coordination
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As multipurpose cash disrupts traditional divisions of responsibility in the sector-based humanitarian sector, disagreements remain around how cash and voucher assistance (CVA) should be coordinated.
Webinar: Data sharing in CVA: ethics, ownership and privacy
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The CALP Network hosts regular events to advance debates around cash and voucher assistance. CALP members can advertise events via the link below. Adverts usually go live within 48 hours.
Capacity building
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Through our capacity building activities, the CALP Network aims to provide the humanitarian community with the skills needed to deliver quality CVA. The CALP Network provides opportunities for individuals to build knowledge and expertise and works with humanitarian organisations to promote innovation and...
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In this section learn about the CALP Network, our purpose, history, staff, governance and strategy.
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The most useful tools, reports, guidance and research related to cash and voucher assistance in humanitarian response. As well as the CALP's own publications, we link to other useful resources. You can submit your own resource for publication on the CALP Network library here.
Themes
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Progress in the scale and quality of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) cuts across a range of thematic areas. The CALP Network works across the priority themes listed below.
Blogs & Recordings
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The latest views and analysis from experts in cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and related topics.
What does Gender-Sensitive Cash and Voucher Assistance Look Like?
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CARE commissioned a study on gender-sensitive CVA from its own project participants and took place in Haiti, Niger, Jordan, Malawi and the Philippines.
The study aimed at understanding the:
-Extent to which women, men, boys, and girls have been involved in the design of CVA and the implications of
this...
Gender, Cash Assistance, and Conflict: Gendered Protection Implications of Cash and Voucher Assistance in Somalia/Somaliland
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The goal of this report is to further understand protection issues in Somalia/land and the implications of CVA on gendered protection issues in the region. This report is structured in reflection of that goal. Following the executive summary, a brief introduction was offered. The section that follows the...
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Towards Organizational Readiness for Data Responsibility: A simple framework for responsible data champions
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This blog is the third in a series on cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and risk. While the first blog busted some myths around misappropriation and fraud in CVA, the second blog looked into a specific risk for recipients of CVA: the risk of misuse of personal data. This third, guest blog from Linda...
Cash Transfer Programming and Child Protection in Humanitarian Action: Review and opportunities to strengthen the evidence
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As prevalence of cash transfer programming in humanitarian response has grown, so too has the recognition that the child protection sector must learn how to use case transfer programs to achieve better results for children. This report summarizes the evidence for cash transfer programming and child...
UnBlocked Cash: Piloting Accelerated Cash Transfer Delivery In Vanuatu
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Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are among the most
promising innovations to have emerged during the last decade,
with the potential to fundamentally transform existing economic,
institutional and social systems. Often referred to as ‘Blockchains’
in honour of the first example developed by...