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Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation: Case study South Sudan
Case Study
This case study accompanies CALP’s Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation. It is intended to illustrate the process of situational analysis, response analysis and response option selection presented in the Good Practice Review. The learning from this case...
Digital identity, biometrics and inclusion in humanitarian responses to refugee crises
Report
Digital identity and biometrics have long been divisive topics in the humanitarian sector. On the one hand, they have the potential to be more inclusive and reach people in need at scale due to perceived efficiency gains. A legal identity for everyone as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation
Report
What is this? A compilation of good practices to assist humanitarian actors designing and implementing cash programmes, including multipurpose cash (MPC) and cash for sectoral outcomes. The rationale for this document is the growing challenge of inflation and currency depreciation in contexts in which...
Cost-efficiency Analysis: Conditional cash for education and protection
Case Study
This case study summarizes an analysis conducted by CARE using the Dioptra tool to generate cost-efficiency estimates for Conditional Cash for Education and Protection in Jordan. The analysis revealed that: Conditional Cash for Education and Protection cost $1,474 per child on average, across nine...
Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Trust Fund: Linking humanitarian cash assistance and national social protection systems – Senegal case study
Case Study
The Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programme (SASPP) aims to help poor and vulnerable households become more resilient to the effects of climate change, and to expand the reach of shock-responsive cash transfer programmes in six Sahel countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal....
Oxfam’s humanitarian social protection approaches in the context of COVID-19
Report
A learning brief illustrating how responses can strengthen social protection systems
Mapping Financial Service Providers for CVA: Read this before you start!
Blog Post
Sharing the secrets to a successful FSP mapping exercise in Yemen.
Effectiveness of Cash-plus Programmes on Early Childhood Outcomes Compared to Cash Transfers Alone: A systematic review and meta-analysis in low- and middle-income countries
Report
To strengthen the impact of cash transfers, these interventions have begun to be packaged as cash-plus programmes, combining cash with additional transfers, interventions, or services. The intervention’s complementary (“plus”) components aim to improve cash transfer effectiveness by targeting...
Armenia Cash Transfer Standard Operating Procedures to support Government-led cash based programmes
Report
The sub-working group on humanitarian cash transfer programming, within the UN Coordination Steering Group, gathers more than 20 organizations – comprising UN agencies, humanitarian NGOs and development partners. The group is working together to develop common and aligned approaches to cash-based...
Moving the dial on participation via CVA
Blog Post
In search of ideas to improve participation? Here are four positive approaches drawn from a variety of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) programmes.
Being on the receiving end: Why vouchers lack dignity and are bad value
Blog Post
Innocent Tshilombo, who spent 10 years at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, describes how attaching conditions to cash and voucher assistance can seriously impact its effectiveness.
SPACE Adaptive social protection and decentralisation: a conceptual framework
Guidelines and Tools
The purpose of this paper is to provide an entry point for discussion of -and practical engagement with- the potential for linking the Adaptive Social Protection and Decentralisation agendas, in the first instance by technicians and practitioners within the German Development Cooperation. The need to...
Lessons Learnt Event on CVA Coordination In Kenya
Report
This event objective was to provide space for reflection and dialogue on the learning points of the overall CVA response during 2020 – 2021 with particular attention to coordination. The key questions included: Why was CVA coordination still a challenge in Kenya? What improvements were needed going...
Getting CVA right in the Humanitarian Response Plan: Blind Spots and Considerations
Blog Post
How can you ensure that Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) is adequately and coherently integrated into humanitarian response plans (HRP)? Recent changes to the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) certainly provide more opportunities to do this. Read on for some great ideas and practical steps for covering...
Meeting report and slides: Sept 2021 cash coordination meeting for humanitarian leaders
Webinar recording
Download meeting report and presentation.
Hand over exercise – Infographic
Guidelines and Tools
The following catalogue summarizes some key Regional CWG tools that were core to the structure during the period April 2020- September 2021 – co led by IFRC, WFP , UNICEF Technical Secretariat – Technical Adviser- CashCap- For more details, refer to https://www.r4v.info/en/cva
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG lead – 13/14 September 2021
Meeting minutes
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG lead – 13/14 September 2021 Day 1 Day 2
Market-Based Programming in WASH: Technical Guidance for Practitioners
Webinar recording
This webinar was co-hosted by the Global WASH Cluster, PRO-WASH, Oxfam, the German WASH Network and the CALP Network in September 2021. Over recent years, humanitarian aid organizations have increasingly used market-based programming (MBP) to deliver water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in emergencies....
Market-Based Programming in Wash – Technical guidance for humanitarian practitioners
Guidelines and Tools
The purpose of this document is to provide practical guidance on market-based programming (MBP) in humanitarian WASH responses. This guidance is intended for: Humanitarian WASH practitioners Cash and markets practitioners Humanitarian business support teams supporting WASH programmes WASH Cluster/Sector...
A Review of the CALP Network’s Work in the MENA Region and More Broadly 2018-2020
Report
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region exemplifies many of the successes and challenges for humanitarian CVA; programming ranges from large-scale initiatives such as the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) to NGO cash consortia to sector-specific initiatives. In this context, the CALP Network has...