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CVA & COVID-19: Remote Market Assessment and Monitoring
Blog Post
As field practitioners adapt their programmes to COVID-19, colleagues across our membership and Cash Working Groups are identifying multiple challenges. The CALP Network is working with others to develop a series of short, field-focused recommendations for such practitioners. The purpose of this series is...
Global Remittances to Suffer a Blow From COVID-19
Blog Post
The CALP Network’s Future of Financial Assistance report highlighted the importance for CVA actors of working with and alongside other financial flows, which often dwarf volumes of humanitarian aid in crisis contexts. Of these flows, remittances are a critical lifeline for many crisis-affected...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) COVID-19 and Gender Aware Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Programming
Policy paper
This FAQ is prepared for the CVA professional to build their technical capacity in relation to use of cash and voucher transfers across the sectors particularly under COVID-19 response.
Gender Aware Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Programming Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Guidelines and Tools
This FAQ is prepared for the CVA Professional to build their basic concept on gender as well as to provide simple techniques on mainstreaming gender into CVA interventions. Please contact Aftab Alam (Aftab.Alam@plan-international.org) for further information and assistance.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Social Protection, Gender Equality and Humanitarian Cash under COVID-19 Context
Guidelines and Tools
This document is prepared for Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Program technical staff who are particularly working at Country Offices, and who still have limited experience on integrating a gender aware humanitarian cash approach within the Social Protection Programming. The document aims to provide...
COVID-19 Adaptation to Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Intervention
Guidelines and Tools
The aim of this technical guidance is to support the team in designing and implementing CVA programmes in both development and humanitarian settings to adapt interventions in response to the Covid19 outbreak, in order to:
1. Support adequate prevention and response to Covid19, and
2. Ensure that the CVA...
Why use cash transfers to respond to COVID-19?
Guidelines and Tools
It is a one pager document showing advantages of using cash transfers in COVID-19 response together with some examples of integrating cash with different sectors.
MPCA ‘Plus’ assistance to people on the move: the case of Venezuelans in Peru
Blog Post
Watch the video here This video documents the MPCA ‘Plus’ program implemented by Save the Children Peru in response to the Venezuelan crisis, and more specifically highlights the provision of assistance to families on the move, or ‘transiting’ through Peru. Beneficiaries were identified throughout...
Migrating with dignity: MPCA to Venezuelan families in Peru
Blog Post
Watch the video here In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Peru. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative...
10 Things you Wish you’d Always Known About Shock-responsive Social Protection
Guidelines and Tools
Download the publication file and the one-page summary here Improving the ‘shock-responsiveness’ of social protection—in other words, its relevance to large-scale natural, economic and political shocks—is an appealing prospect both for governments and for their partners working in social...
MPCA ‘Plus’ assistance to people on the move: the case of Venezuelans in Peru
Video
Watch the video here This video documents the MPCA ‘Plus’ program implemented by Save the Children Peru in response to the Venezuelan crisis, and more specifically highlights the provision of assistance to families on the move, or ‘transiting’ through Peru. Beneficiaries were identified throughout...
Migrating with dignity: MPCA to Venezuelan families in Peru
Video
Watch the video here In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Peru. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative...
CVA for COVID-19: Listen to people and act on what they say
Blog Post
Not everyone will be personally affected by the COVID-19 health crisis, but nearly every household will feel its effects economically. For many people in humanitarian crises, particularly those at the margins of society, the economic impact of COVID-19 will be greater and longer-lasting than the health...
Systematization document regional learning event: Linking cash and voucher assistance with social protection systems
Report
The purpose of this document is to systematize the process of organizing the Regional Learning Event on “Linking Cash and Voucher Assistance with Social Protection Systems”, convened by REDLAC and the Regional Cash Working Group -R4V for May 20th, 2021.
The Grand Bargain’s Working Cash Workstream,...
Q&A on the Call to Action Letter on Cash Coordination
Report
CVA & COVID-19: Adapting Delivery Mechanisms
Blog Post
As field practitioners adapt their programmes to COVID-19, colleagues across our membership and Cash Working Groups are identifying multiple challenges. The CALP Network is working with others to develop a series of short, field-focused recommendations for such practitioners. The purpose of this series is...
CashCap in a Meaningful Dialogue with Communities
Policy paper
This document capitalizes a journey CashCap decided to embark on during 2019, to answer to the following question: How can CashCap be more engaged with, and more accountable to the communities it serves? Special thanks to the 40+ women and men in Uganda and Colombia that engaged in a meaningful dialogue...
From Mistrust to Complementarity: The Partnership between NGOs and Private Companies in the Provision of Humanitarian Aid in the Form of Cash
Report
This article provides arguments to understand the rationale behind the use of cash transfers as a reference tool in humanitarian contexts. It seeks to offer more clarity about the roles and potential synergies between the traditional stakeholders of the sector (NGOs, international organisations), and the...
Returns from Iran and Pakistan Funding Needs
Report
As of 23 June 2018, 348,506 undocumented Afghan returnees have crossed back into Afghanistan from Iran. The months of April and May have witnessed an average of 20,000 returns each week. The total represents a 50% increase of returns over the same period in 2017. The larger return is associated with a...
The Impact of The COVID-19 Development on Beneficiaries of Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) Program
Report
As of 19 April 2020, the Ministry of Health reported more than 86,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases with almost 2,000 deaths in Turkey. The Government of Turkey has introduced a series of containment
measures, including closing of schools, shopping malls and businesses; a curfew for individuals above 65 or...