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SPACE The Potential Role of Economic Inclusion Programmes to Respond to Those Affected by COVID-19
Guidelines and Tools
COVID-19 is accentuating the risks facing an increasing number of poor and vulnerable individuals and households in a myriad of ways. As the effects of the crisis evolve, many actors are considering whether and how to complement social assistance measures with additional inputs, components and linkages...
SPACE Social Protection in the COVID-19 Recovery: Opportunities and Challenges
Guidelines and Tools
This paper analyses the potential contribution of social protection in supporting poor and vulnerable populations over the medium term – defined loosely as the period from the present until end 2022. The decade prior to COVID-19 witnessed an increasing global focus on social protection, a phenomenon...
SPACE Programming Options: ‘Cash Plus’ Approaches in the Response to COVID-19
Guidelines and Tools
It is important to consider interventions that go beyond transferring cash or vouchers and to consider a range of complementary interventions that can be implemented alongside cash transfers. This not only provides the opportunity to maximise the benefits of the cash itself but enables a more...
SPACE Value for Money of Social Protection and Humanitarian Cash Transfers in the Context of COVID-19
Guidelines and Tools
Social protection and humanitarian cash responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have emerged globally within the last few months, with more responses to come as the early phases of lockdowns have in many places been replaced with the beginnings of L-shaped recessions and on-going extreme economic hardship for...
SPACE Identifying Practical Options for Linking Humanitarian Assistance and Social Protection in the COVID-19 Response
Guidelines and Tools
This short note examines the relationship between the humanitarian assistance sector and the routine social protection sector in response to COVID-19. Whilst a variety of guidance is being developed to support humanitarian practitioners around the response to the pandemic, less material exists that guides...
Joint Financial Service Providers mapping-Iraq 2020
Report
FSP mapping covering financial infrastructure and the environment in Iraq, FSP`s capacity to current and increased demand, FSPs presence and area coverage, transactions and payment approval process and fees, regulations and required documentations, advantages, disadvantages, challenges, risks and...
Cash Assistance Program For Families Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Report
In March 2020, the Philippines faced one of its toughest challenges yet: the Coronavirus Disease 2019, more popularly known as “COVID-19”. Declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic, the disease rapidly spread in the months that followed, bringing the confirmed cases to over...
Frequently Asked Questions
Presentation
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
1. What is the R4v?
2. Is there any Cash Working Group under the R4V?
3. Why is it important?
4. How can I contact the Coordination team? How frequently do members meet? How can I subscribe to the e-mailing list?
5. Who is a member of the RCWG?
6. How does the RCWG link up with...
Preguantas De Uso Frecuente
Presentation
PREGUNTAS DE USO FRECUENTE
1. ¿Qué es R4v?
2. ¿Existe un GTM regional para R4V?
3. ¿Por qué es importante tener un GTM?
4. ¿Cómo puedo contactar al Equipo Coordinador? ¿Con qué frecuencia se reúnen? ¿Cómo me puedo suscribir a la lista de difusión? 5. ¿Quién es miembro del GTM Regional?
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How to build a Humanitarian Response Plan that makes a difference: tips on accountability and cash
Blog Post
It’s humanitarian planning season once again! The CALP Network’s Sophie Tholstrup and Ground Truth Solutions’ Meg Sattler reflect on how to use the humanitarian planning process to build more effective, people-centred responses.
Livelihood Transition of the ESSN | Capacity Mapping and Understanding the Potential
Report
The Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme is reaching more than 1.7 million refugees with monthly cash assistance to help them cover their basic needs and providing them with freedom of choice while promoting dignity. On the other hand, the project aims to increase affected people’s economic and...
Stepping up CVA with COVID-19: Paving the way we respond to future crisis
Report
COVID-19 has thrown the world into lockdown and taken a tremendous toll on the health, social, and economic status of vulnerable communities, households, and individuals. Limitations on daily activities and an over-arching health crisis, restrictions on movement, closures of schools and businesses have...
CVA: Your Role as a GBV Coordinator (UNFPA / GBV AoR)
Guidelines and Tools
UNFPA’s Humanitarian Office and the GBV Area of Responsibility have developed this guidance on “CVA – Your Role as a GBV Coordinator,” for GBV coordination group leads and partners in humanitarian settings. Its purpose is to outline the practical ways in which GBV Coordinators should support GBV-...
Gaza Multi-Purpose Cash Programme: Endline Evaluation
Report
This report presents the key findings of the pilot Gaza Multi-Purpose Cash Program (GMPC) implemented by Mercy Corps Palestine in the Gaza Strip during 2019-20. The aim of the programme was to allow 1,227 poor and food insecure households to meet their varied basic needs, by delivering three cash...
Inclusion of Health Expenditures in the MEB
Guidelines and Tools
Technical note from the Global Health Cluster on methods to include health expenditures in the minimum expenditure basket. The note is meant for cash and cash practitioners alike, working together during the design of the MEB to ensure the health portion is reflected – as it is almost always reported as...
The Provision of Cash and Voucher Assistance in the Response to the Venezuela Refugee and Migrant Crisis: Findings and lessons learned – Main report
Report
This study, for which data was compiled between March and April 2020, seeks to document lessons and good practices in the delivery of CVA in Ecuador and Colombia by humanitarian organisations and governments, in response to migrants and refugees from Venezuela. The purpose of this analysis is...
OCHA internal guidance – cash in HRPs
Guidelines and Tools
The enhanced 2020 Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) approach offers a unique opportunity, through its focus on producing a joint inter-sectoral analysis, to provide a holistic understanding of the relationship between needs in the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO). Additionally, the strengthened focus on...
Use of Foreign Currency for Designing of Assistance Packages in Yemen_Fina
Guidelines and Tools
The Yemeni Rial (YER) during the course of 2020 has shown high levels of volatility in its value against foreign currencies, in particular, the United States Dollar (USD). As program budgets are calculated in USD or EUROs, but cash transfers are made in YER, the reduction in the value of the YER against...
Supporting the Linkages Between Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance and National Social Protection Systems
Report
This tipsheet aims to support country-level coordination efforts to strengthen the engagement between humanitarian coordination groups that implement cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and existing social
protection or disaster risk reduction coordination actors and groups. In particular, it seeks to...
Guidance Brief: How to incorporate cash and voucher assistance into a nutrition response
Guidelines and Tools
The Guidance Brief is the shorter version of the Evidence and Guidance Note on the Use of Cash and Vouchers for Nutrition in Emergencies. It provides easy to access operational guidance on considering and using cash and voucher modalities in nutrition in emergencies response. It further provides entry...