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Collecting and using data – coffee shop lessons!
Blog Post
No finger print ID – no coffee! How much data would you volunteer in exchange for a cuppa? And what if the stakes were higher, and your ID was needed in exchange for some much needed humanitarian assistance? After jumping through hoops to get her daily brew, the CALP Network’s director shares a few...
Meeting Needs Index – guidance note
Guidelines and Tools
The Meeting Needs Index, or MNI, is a proxy measure of household welfare, providing a single-figure composite indication of how able a household is to meet multiple basic needs. It was first developed and utilized by Mercy Corps in the Gaza Strip, then at larger scale by the Gaza Protection Consortium, as...
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 17 November 2021
Meeting minutes
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 17 November 2021
Pathways from CVA to long term financial inclusion: A framework for success
Blog Post
CVA programs can provide a springboard to financial inclusion. But spotting the right opportunity, and good programme design, are key. GSMA and Mercy Corps share a simple tool to understand which contexts offer the best pathways from CVA to financial inclusion.
Toolkit for Engaging Adolescents in Child Protection and CVA Monitoring and Evaluation – Tool 2 Activity for Mapping CVA Risks and Protective Factors with Adolescents
Guidelines and Tools
This tool describes an activity for mapping cash and voucher
assistance associated risks and protective factors with adolescents.
It must be used along with the other tools in the “Toolkit for Engaging
Adolescents in Child Protection and Cash and Voucher Assistance
Monitoring and Evaluation”. In...
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in COVID-19 context: Case studies from Nepal
Case Study
With the first and second surge of COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal, followed by lockdown with mobility restrictions imposed by the government to reduce the spread of the virus, most vulnerable people witnessed impacts on their lives and livelihoods-affecting food security, health and nutrition, and education,...
Assessment of Financial Service Providers – Cash and Voucher Assistance in Uganda
Case Study
Under the Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2018-2022, both international partners and local government place a strong emphasis on shifting the response paradigm “from care and maintenance to inclusion and self-reliance.” In pursuit of this objective, cash-based interventions are marked as a modality...
How do great ideas scale? Learning from successes in humanitarian innovation
Report
Scaling innovations in the humanitarian sector is notoriously difficult, and existing research highlights the many barriers and challenges to scaling humanitarian innovations. This study sought to fill an important gap in the literature by identifying and outlining key lessons from humanitarian...
Micro-enterprise in Humanitarian Programming: Impact evaluation of business grants vs. unconditional cash transfer
Report
How can unconditional cash transfers (UCT) be leveraged to boost household incomes beyond addressing short-term food insecurity in a prolonged humanitarian crisis setting? Using a randomised control trial in Somalia, we test additional benefits of changing UCT into business grants while also varying the...
Cash Coordination Caucus – Proposed Strategy
Policy paper
The strategy document was developed by the EP’s office to delineate the objectives, composition and engagement structure of the cash coordination caucus in the Grand Bargain 2.0 process...
Slides for the Global CWG meeting – Oct 2021
Presentation
The enclosed slides for the 28 October meeting feature presentations from WFP, the Uganda and CAR CWGs and GSMA , as well as key links to key resources discussed.
Responding to Shocks Using Social Protection: Principles and a Framework for NGOs
Guidelines and Tools
This overview provides an initial operational framework to guide decision-making as NGOs engage with SP systems and programmes. It outlines key guiding principles and specifies the value-add of NGOs engaging with systems of SP. It aims to complement and balance the considerable existing work aimed at,...
Cash Coordination – Selected Resources
Collection
Effective coordination can prevent gaps and overlaps in humanitarian responses, ensure the impact of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is optimised for the benefit of crisis affected populations, whilst also making the most of limited humanitarian funding. However disagreements remain around how (CVA)...
Turning the page on traditional learning: Why the CALP Network’s new online course is so exciting
Blog Post
The CALP Network is entering a new era of inclusive online learning, and there are lots of reasons to get excited about it.
Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation
Collection
The challenge of inflation and currency depreciation in the context of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance is growing. The need to document existing practice has been underscored by COVID-19, which has exacerbated economic volatility in many humanitarian contexts, and increased humanitarian needs.
Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation: Case Study Yemen
Report
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 GPR. The learning from this case study has also...
Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation: Case Study Lebanon
Report
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 GPR. The learning from this case study has also...
Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation: Case Study Zimbabwe
Report
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 GPR. The learning from this case study has also...
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)...