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Linking Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Social Protection – Lebanon: Country Summary
Report
This country summary is part of a larger resource set, providing practitioners with examples of different approaches to linking CVA
and social protection.
Cash Transfers: Past, present and future – Evidence and lessons learned from the Transfer Project
Report
Since 2009, the Transfer Project has generated rigorous evidence on the impacts of cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa and has supported their expansion. The Transfer Project is a collaborative network comprising UNICEF (Innocenti, Regional and Country Offices), Food and Agriculture Organization of the...
World Food Programme Strategy for Support to Social Protection
Policy paper
In July 2021 WFP launched its Strategy for Support to Social Protection. It explains how WFP will contribute to the development of high quality national social protection systems and programmes in contexts of food insecurity, as a complement to its work responding directly to food security-related...
SPACE Deciding when and how to link humanitarian assistance and social protection: guidance and tools for response analysis
Policy paper
This short paper presents two complementary ‘Tools’ to guide thinking and decisionmaking on humanitarian programme design, providing the basis for conducting a comprehensive response analysis to inform decisions on linking HA-SP. These can be used to determine the likely feasibility and...
SPACE Key considerations for monitoring shock-responsive social assistance: A guiding framework
Policy paper
This Brief presents a guiding framework with key questions and key issues to consider when monitoring Shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) to understand how the intervention contributes to broader crisis response. It’s a guiding framework that includes the key domains of coverage and effectiveness,...
The Receipt
Report
Save the Children Australia: Pacific Cash Preparedness and Response Program
Integrating gender and inclusion in social protection response to COVID-19: What have we learnt?
Policy paper
COVID-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities for women and girls and persons with disabilities. During the pandemic, women have been more likely than men to drop out of the labour force, have shouldered an unequal burden of unpaid care work, and are facing increased threats from gender-based violence...
Evaluation of the Cash Plus Project’s Contribution to Reducing Vulnerability amongst Adolescent Girls & Young Women to HIV in Turkana County
Case Study
The Cash Plus programme aimed to influence change in several factors that increase the vulnerability of AGYW to HIV in Turkana County. The project design promoted combination prevention programming. Biomedical, behavioural and structural interventions targeting AGYW were implemented over approximately...
SPACE Overcoming barriers to coordinating across social protection and humanitarian assistance – building on promising practices
Policy paper
The importance of strong coordination between actors preparing, designing and implementing shock responses is well accepted. This has been highlighted specifically concerning shock responsive social protection (SRSP) as well as linking humanitarian action and social protection (HA-SP). However, despite...
SHARE SPACE Do child grants lead to increased pregnancies? An evidence view from Asia and the Pacific
Policy paper
Despite strong evidence showing that broad-based cash transfers targeting pregnant women and young children reduce poverty, improve health, nutrition and education and increase economic growth, concerns are often raised among policymakers that these payments may increase incentives to have children, in...
Financial Inclusion in Fragility: Wealth, Saving, Borrowing and Lending in Iraq – Summary Report
Report
Access to credit and savings are critical to a household’s resilience to shocks. Socio-economically vulnerable populations in Iraq often bear the brunt of the crises and respond by using accessible financial coping mechanisms. By having access to useful and affordable financial products and services...
Financial Inclusion in Fragility: Wealth, Saving, Borrowing and Lending in Iraq
Report
Access to credit and savings are critical to a household’s resilience to shocks. Socio-economically vulnerable populations in Iraq often bear the brunt of the crises and respond by using accessible financial coping mechanisms. By having access to useful and affordable financial products and services...
Transfers with Impact – Pathway to Link Humanitarian Cash to Social Protection through Social Accountability
Policy paper
In response to the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, governments have introduced over 1,600 social protection measures in almost all the world’s countries and territories. Cash assistance – a critical intervention in supporting the world’s most vulnerable people – also grew by 240% during...
Market-based programming: Challenges and Recommendations from across CALP’s network
Blog Post
When it comes to market-based programming what's the best approach? CALP's members have some great ideas including widening the scope of market monitoring, and making longer term market forecasts.
Cash Distribution Process Monitoring Observation Checklist
Guidelines and Tools
This observation checklist is intended to help Plan International staff to monitor cash transfer distribution processes that have a bearing on quality, security and access of beneficiaries to aid. One observation checklist should be completed per distribution monitored. The monitoring staff should...
Infographic-CVA in Plan International
Report
This infographic reflects the growth of CVA in Plan International (as of May 2019)
Cash and Voucher Assistance in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Lessons Learned from a CARE Multi-Country Program
Report
CARE implemented a multi-country program with the aim of reducing the negative impacts of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations, especially women and girls, using complementary and multimodal approaches, including the provision of cash and voucher assistance (CVA). Given the nature and scale of this program...
The Key to Fairness is Inclusion: Understanding Perceptions of Fairness and Aid Modality Preferences in Northeast Nigeria
Report
The use of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is increasing in Nigeria: CVA currently makes up around 50% of the food security response, and was received by 1.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in 2020. Following-up on a quantitative survey that we conducted in 2020, this report contains...
English Version: GOAL’s use of cash transfers in response to Hurricane’s Eta and Iota, Honduras 2021
Video
English Version: GOAL’s use of cash transfers in response to Hurricane’s Eta and Iota, Honduras 2021. Communications video. Watch video here
CVA for Child Protection Outcomes: Case study from Cambodia
Video
Save the Children Cambodia and seven partner organizations are working to improve households’ ability to care for their children and achieve positive child protection outcomes. With support from USAID Cambodia and European Union in Cambodia, FCF|REACT is providing monthly cash transfers and supporting...