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How Targeting Mechanisms Can Identify People With Disabilities for Inclusion in Social Protection Programmes
Guidelines and Tools
Persons with disabilities have worse education, health and employment outcomes and are more vulnerable to shocks than persons without disabilities. At the same time, they are less likely to be enrolled in social protection programmes, including those for which they are eligible. They can face significant...
COVID-19 and the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) and Conditional Cash Transfers for Education (CCTE) programmes
Guidelines and Tools
FCDO Turkey commissioned SPACE to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the principal cash vehicles active in Turkey: Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) and Conditional Cash Transfers for Education (CCTE) programmes, both funded by the EU through the EUR 6 billion Facility for Refugees in Turkey (FRiT)...
Data simplified. Protection amplified. An essential conversation for CVA practitioners.
Webinar recording
As humanitarian aid becomes increasingly remote and digitized in the pandemic, and data is both a commodity and a weapon, how do we protect those we aim to help? More than ever, data must be treated as an extension of the individual and as an essential part of humanitarian protection. the CALP...
Provisional Impact of Repeat MPCA on Meeting Basic Needs and Supporting Food Security in North-West Syria
Policy paper
In the North-West Syria response, cash assistance is mostly once-off or else for a maximum of 3 months. GOAL Syria is delivering a large-scale value voucher or food kit response to support food security needs. However, needs assessment repeatedly show that households have high non-food needs along with...
Case study: Responsible data sharing with governments
Report
The COVID-19 crisis, widespread economic downturns and the loss of formal and informal employment have all contributed to accelerated linkages between CVA and social protection. Quarantines and lockdowns have also pushed humanitarians to incorporate more digital modalities into their work. As...
Data Responsibility Toolkit: A Guide for CVA Practitioners
Report
This updated toolkit builds on ELAN’s widely-used 2016 Data Starter Kit, which was one of the first resources providing orientation on data privacy and security in humanitarian work. The new toolkit offers a range of ways to work data responsibility into programme planning, design,...
Case study: Data responsibility and digital remote targeting during COVID-19
Report
Challenges due to the pandemic have led to all kinds of innovations and adaptations focused on remote targeting, enrolment, verification and delivery. While required for the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, these new approaches might be useful in future responses that require remote targeting and delivery, such...
Data responsibility toolkit and case studies – Guidance for cash and voucher practitioners
Collection
While all humanitarian programmes collect large amounts of data, this is particularly true in Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). Much of the data collected is highly sensitive and private, and is collected from very vulnerable people. Now more than ever, it is important to design our programmes so...
Brief: Towards shock-responsive social protection: lessons from the COVID-19 response in Ethiopia
Policy paper
COVID-19 and national and international measures to curb its spread, may have pushed 15 million more people below the poverty line in Ethiopia. This policy brief draws on key learnings from the Ethiopia country case study, focused on the social protection response to COVID-19 and identifies...
Towards shock-responsive social protection: lessons from the COVID-19 response in Kenya
Report
The stringent lockdown measures and global economic slowdown, due to COVID-19, are likely to push more than 2 million people into poverty in Kenya. This study documents the Government of Kenya’s social protection response to mitigate the negative impact of the pandemic on vulnerable households and...
Towards shock-responsive social protection: lessons from the COVID-19 response in Pakistan
Report
The stringent lockdown measures and global economic slowdown, due to COVID-19, are likely to increase the poverty rate in Pakistan by 35 percentage points in urban areas and 32 percentage points in rural areas. The report documents the Government of Pakistan’s social protection response to mitigate the...
Brief: Towards shock-responsive social protection: lessons from the COVID-19 response in Pakistan
Policy paper
This policy brief draws on key learnings from the Pakistan research report and microsimulation report on the social protection responses to COVID-19. The brief provides analysis of the factors that enabled and constrained the effectiveness of the delivery of social protection in Pakistan and also provides...
Digital economy in KRI: A market study
Report
The objective of the research was to assess the opportunities and challenges for digital technologies to promote economic growth and employment creation for host communities and refugees in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The findings of this report will then be used to design curricula for digital skills which...
Sudan – Gedaref Joint Cash Risk assessment
Report
Since the crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in November 2020 over 60,000 people have sought refuge in neighbouring Sudan and were mostly accommodated in camps re-established in Gedaref State. Cash is has been utilised as a response modality and is being considered further by several agencies. This...
Linking the Rapid Response Mechanism to the Provision of Cash Assistance and Women’s Protection: UNFPA Yemen Case Study
Report
The rapid response mechanism (RRM) in Yemen aims to provide a minimum package of critical life-saving assistance for newly displaced persons. This is led by UNFPA in partnership with WFP and UNICEF. The RRM serves as an entry point for the provision of multi-purpose cash assistance and to address...
Demystifying the Minimum Expenditure Basket
Blog Post
Reflections from the CALP Network and WFP’s joint webinar series on MEBs.
Considering & incorporating CVA into nutrition programming – a 3 step programming tool
Guidelines and Tools
This tool is intended to support nutrition practitioners with how to assess appropriateness of cash and vouchers assistance (CVA) in emergency nutrition programming, to support, complement, maximize other modalities more routinely considered in nutrition programming. This tool takes the user through the...
Market Assessment Tool
Guidelines and Tools
Market Assessment (Observation and Traders’ Survey)
Sample PDM Tool
Guidelines and Tools
POST DISTRIBUTION MONITORING (PDM) FORM-CASH AND VOUCHER ASSISTANCE Use this form only if digital platform Kobo/ Poi mapper is not accessible. This form is to be administered 2 weeks within the cash distribution and should be contextualized based on the modality of support
Sample beneficiaries criteria
Guidelines and Tools
Sample beneficiaries criteria for the cash or voucher distributions