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Considerations for Cash and Voucher Assistance in Education in Emergencies Needs Assessments
Guidelines and Tools
This document presents some of the main considerations to keep in mind pertaining to Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) when conducting Education in Emergencies (EiE) needs assessments. Section 1 introduces some key CVA concepts within the needs assessment process and Section 2 serves as a checklist for...
Cash and Voucher Assistance Essentials for WASH Cluster Information Managers
Guidelines and Tools
CVA refers to all programmes where cash transfers or vouchers for goods or services are directly provided to recipients. In the context of humanitarian assistance, the term refers to the provision of cash transfers or vouchers directly to individuals, household or community recipients; not to governments...
CVA for Health Outcomes – Position Paper
Policy paper
The RCRCM CVA for Health Outcomes Technical Working Group Position Paper on Cash for Health Outcomes explores how CVA (a form of demand side financing) can be used to support health outcomes, as a complement to supply side interventions, and highlight some of the key considerations.
Digital Currency Governance Consortium White Paper Series
Report
The Digital Currency Governance Consortium (DCGC) convenes more than 85 organizations from the public sector, private sector, civil society and academia to provide a global perspective towards addressing high priority policy and governance issues surrounding new forms of digital currency. DCGC has focused...
The Learning Brief: Cash assistance for mitigation of gender-based violence in Somalia
Report
In 2021, Somalia witnessed a catastrophic increase in the number of vulnerable women and girls exposed to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) risks. Natural disasters and armed conflicts resulted in multiple displacements, forced evictions, and the destruction of livelihoods, health facilities, GBV service sites...
Basic Needs and Food Security Sector COVID-19 Emergency Response Standards for Non-camp Refugee Response
Report
The Basic Needs Working Group (BNWG), made up of more than 30 humanitarian organizations and agencies, has put into action its model for emergency response which encourages coordination of assistance, shares best practices, and provides a collaborative response. The COVID Response Task Force kicked off on...
Tip sheet on integrating cash and markets in HNOs and HRPs
Guidelines and Tools
The humanitarian programme cycle (HPC) aims to achieve stronger efficiency, improved targeting, increased funding and provide greater accountability to affected people. Market Based Programming (MBP), including Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) is now recognized as an effective tool to achieve the same...
Global Education Cluster Strategy Package: Cash and voucher assistance checklist
Guidelines and Tools
This checklist provides guidance for considering cash and voucher programme delivery modalities throughout the Cluster Strategy document and development process on an equal footing with in-kind distributions. Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is an intervention that targets households or individuals and...
“We are all vulnerable here”: Kenya’s pandemic cash transfer program riddled with irregularities
Report
This report is based on Human Rights Watch research in 11 of the 14 informal settlements in Nairobi county. Nairobi is among the 21 counties the Kenyan government selected, out of the country’s 47 counties, to implement cash transfers to cushion the most vulnerable households against the impact of the...
Cash and Voucher Assistance for Health Outcomes
Policy paper
The RCRCM CVA for Health Outcomes Technical Working Group Position Paper on Cash for Health Outcomes explores how CVA (a form of demand side financing) can be used to support health outcomes, as a complement to supply-side interventions, and highlight some of the key considerations.
Tip Sheet on Integrating Cash and Voucher Assistance in HNOs and HRPs
Guidelines and Tools
The use of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) has increased considerably in the past years from 10.6 per cent of international humanitarian assistance in 2016 to 19 per cent in 2020. Today, CVA is widely recognized as a more flexible and dignified modality for providing humanitarian assistance and is...
The Unblocked Cash Experience in Vanuatu
Case Study
This report provides details of the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council’s (VBRC) role and approach to supporting the businesses in the Oxfam UnBlocked Cash humanitarian programme in 2020-2021 in Vanuatu. While this report documents the learnings using blockchain technology, by sharing the key details...
Cash and Voucher Assistance Guidelines for Lao PDR
Guidelines and Tools
Cash and voucher assistance is becoming increasingly popular in Lao PDR in delivering humanitarian assistance, rehabilitation and development focused projects. In supporting the cash and voucher assistance agenda in Lao PDR, the Cash Working Group was established as a working group for local and regional...
The CALP Network Annual Report 2020-21
Report
This annual report describes the CALP Network's main activities, challenges and achievements from 2020-2021.
Cash and Voucher Assistance Essentials for Nutrition Cluster Information Managers
Guidelines and Tools
CVA refers to all programmes where cash transfers or vouchers for goods or services are directly provided to recipients. In the context of humanitarian assistance, the term refers to the provision of cash transfers or vouchers directly to individuals, household or community recipients; not to governments...
Somalia Social Protection Donor Working Group – Terms of Reference (ToR)
Guidelines and Tools
Large-scale cash and voucher transfers have long formed the basis of the humanitarian response to crises in Somalia and successfully so. While sporadic small scale cash transfer projects in the past lacked coordination and coherence, this time a great deal of effort has been expended by donors and...
WVI Cash and Voucher Programming Indicator Compendium
Guidelines and Tools
This indicator compendium was designed to support World Vision field offices to design and monitor quality cash and voucher programmes. Specifically, the compendium will enable colleagues responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring cash and voucher programming to select appropriate indicators...
Cash Transfers and Women’s Economic Inclusion: Experimental evidence from Zambia
Case Study
This paper investigates whether an increase in exogenous income through the Child Grants model of the Social Cash Transfer programme in Zambia fosters economic inclusion among rural women. We conceptualize economic inclusion as a transformative process comprised of four pillars: productive capacity,...
“Pinning down moving targets”: Adapting humanitarian cash programmes to the multi-pronged crises in Lebanon
Report
Whilst most humanitarian responses across the globe have had to navigate the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, in Lebanon the challenges related to COVID-19 emerged on top of an unprecedented protest movement, political instability, a rapid deterioration of the economy and the increasingly protracted...
Cash and Voucher Assistance for Protection Outcomes in Mine Action
Report
Despite growing evidence that Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) can be a useful tool, where appropriate, to enhance the protection and resilience of individuals, households, and communities affected by crisis, Cash and Voucher Assistance is not widely used within Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA). This study...