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Social Protection and Humanitarian Action: An Overview of Oxfam’s Approach
Video
This short video tells the story of Amina as a way to provide an introduction to social protection in humanitarian response. Focusing on the linkages to cash and voucher programming and Oxfam’s rights-based approach to social protection, this simple video aims to build awareness of and start discussions...
Cash Transfer Mapping Report
Policy paper
In response to COVID-19, governments across the world have been working with varying success to protect the vulnerable from the adverse effects of the pandemic. The number of measures adopted across countries worldwide since the onset of the pandemic is unprecedented. However, as countries have stepped up...
Integrated Cash and Gender-Based Violence Programming for IPV Survivors in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Case Study
Migrant and refugee women and girls are vulnerable to a range of risks before, during, and after humanitarian crises. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a type of gender-based violence (GBV) and is among the many protection-specific risks they face. As a result of the conflict in Venezuela, an estimated...
Philippines Case Study: Cash Assistance to Access Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Reduce Maternal Deaths
Case Study
As part of the humanitarian response to large displacements due to internal conflict in the Lanao del Sur province, in 2019 and 2020, UNFPA Philippines piloted the provision of cash assistance as an incentive for pregnant women to access SRH services. Against the backdrop of exacerbated poverty due to...
A roadmap for collective action to enhance the integration of cash and voucher assistance within gender-based violence programming in Northwest Syria
Case Study
This case study highlights the practical importance of coordination between CVA and GBV actors at all levels and shows how working in silos is detrimental to assisting to the fullest extent possible women and girls affected by GBV. It documents the conditions that led to the creation of a joint taskforce...
Digital Feast and Famine: Digital Technologies and Humanitarian Law in Food Security, Starvation and Famine Risk
Report
This working paper presents the findings of a brief exploratory study into the role of digital technologies in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and its implications for starvation and famine risk. It is a work in progress, intended to raise issues rather than reach definitive conclusions (given the...
Philippines Case Study: Cash for Protection for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Women at Risk of GBV
Case Study
As part of the humanitarian response to a series of earthquakes in the Philippines, UNFPA Philippines piloted the integration of cash assistance within GBV case management services and as support to women and girls at risk of GBV, including women and girls with mental health and psychosocial support...
A Gendered Analysis on Cash for Work Programming in Lahj Governorate
Case Study
Cash for Work (CFW) programmes are designed to help the most vulnerable people meet their essential and basic needs. In Yemen, CFW interventions are responding to an ever-growing proportion of the Yemeni population that are in need of humanitarian assistance. Working with communities in the targeted areas...
Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB): A guide to calculate the transfer value
Guidelines and Tools
The Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) for the Philippines outlines the minimum culturally-adjusted items for survival of a household of five for one month, post Typhoon. The basket comprises the basic energy requirements of 2,100 kilocalories per day, shelter needs for disaster-affected households,...
“Case Management Integrated with Cash Transfers is one of the Best Responses we can Use”
Case Study
With support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC), CARE, and the Corporación de Profesionales para el Desarrollo Integral Comunitario [Corporation of Professionals for Comprehensive Community...
The Receipt
Report
Save the Children Australia: Pacific Cash Preparedness and Response Program Newsletter
Geotargeting Analysis for Seasonal Assistance: Case study Chad
Case Study
This paper describes the methodology that was developed to address targeting gaps using remote sensing data, presents the results obtained using the methodology, and discusses the challenges in its utilisation.
MPCA Referral Mechanism to Sectoral Services in Iraq
Guidelines and Tools
This is a harmonised and inter-agency mechanism that allows referring MPCA beneficiaries to 5 critical sectors and its activities: Agriculture, Livelihoods, Health, Protection and Shelter. The aim is to provide more holistic support and enhance the impact of MPCA to vulnerable population.
Technical brief: Key Principles and Recommendations for Inclusive Cash and Voucher Assistance in Ukraine.
Guidelines and Tools
A technical brief on inclusive cash and voucher assistance in Ukraine, developed together with the European Disability Forum. The brief is intended to provide general guidance for humanitarian agencies operating in Ukraine on how to implement Disability Inclusive CVA.
Common Barriers to Accessing Inclusive Cash and Vouchers Assistance
Guidelines and Tools
A short list of the most common barriers to ensuring disability inclusive CVA programming
A Global Mapping of GOAL’s Cash, Vouchers and Social Protection Interventions Linked with Health
Report
This mapping identified ways GOAL are providing financial assistance (including CVA and social protection assistance) to support access to health related goods/services and improve people’s health/nutrition status. It reviewed GOAL projects in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the...
IOM Cash-based Interventions – Annual Report and Case Studies 2021
Case Study
The IOM CBI Annual Report and Case Studies 2021 highlights the increasing use of cash and voucher assistance in IOM and efforts to build capacity and knowledge on CBI within the organization. The report also features case studies from more than 30 IOM missions where CBI modalities were used to implement...
Cash and Covid-19 – Lessons for the future
Webinar recording
Necessity is the mother of invention. During two years of the pandemic, Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA), has proved to be a flexible and effective mode of assistance, lending itself to remote delivery and supporting recipients to meet varied needs. As organisations raced to adapt, CVA was scaled up or...
Women-Led Cash During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Haiti Case Study
Case Study
This case study reviews how ActionAid adapted this cash project to the challenges posed by Covid-19 in 2020. It reviews the outcomes of cash support in the light of the Covid-19 crisis and the role of women in leading and participating in the response and offers learnings and recommendations for future...
Feasibility study on cash and voucher assistance programming in the Borena zone, Oromia, and Zone One, Afar regions in Ethiopia
Report
OCHA reports close to seven million people living in the lowlands of Oromia, Somali, SNNP and Southwest regions continue to experience the effects of drought (including 3 million people in So-mali Region, 2.4 million in eastern Oromia and 1 million people in southern Oromia).
Following three consecutive...