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Cash and Voucher Assistance – COVID-19 Toolkit – One pager
Guidelines and Tools
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Toolkit (with hyperlinks) provides an overview on Plan International’s key technical resources developed around the COVID-19 response.
Cash Transfers and Social Protection: From Alignment to Integration
Policy paper
As the use of cash transfer programming grows in response to COVID-19, demands on the aid community’s own interventions and capacity to support state-led measures continue to grow in equal measure. Originally envisioned as a means of better coordinating parallel and remarkably similar humanitarian and...
CVA in COVID-19 Contexts: Guidance from the CALP Network
Guidelines and Tools
This is a summary of the key points from the many resources you shared on CVA and COVID through this document. This is a living document and we will continue to update this summary as new resources are added. The below is intended to help organisations understand and prepare for likely impacts of COVID-19...
Ep. 3. What does the future of financial assistance mean for your work today?
Podcast
In this episode of the CashCast we speak to Meg Sattler from Ground Truth Solutions, Lars Peter Nissen from ACAPS, and Jenny Caswell from GSMA about the changes we should be seeing today, to effectively meet the humanitarian needs of the future.
Water, Markets, Cash and Drought Resilience in Somaliland
Report
This learning brief looks Cash to Access Water (CAW) in Somaliland. Water markets exist, and they exist everywhere. In Somaliland, these markets are the ‘first responders’ to critical water needs during severe dry seasons and droughts. For decades, humanitarian agencies have been focusing on the use...
Case Study: Documentation of experiences using cash and voucher assistance (CVA) for nutrition outcomes in Somali
Case Study
This case study was conducted as part of the wider initiative to develop guidance on the use of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) for nutrition outcomes. The case study reflects experiences and lessons learned in the context of Somalia. It further explores opportunities to apply a stronger nutrition lens...
Cash Crash: Syria’s economic collapse and the fragmentation of the state
Report
The Syrian economy is currently witnessing unprecedented volatility. To date, analysts have predominantly focused on the impact this crash has had on Syrian households, which are now facing acute financial pressure as poverty rates climb toward 90 percent, food insecurity skyrockets, and famine becomes an...
Cash and Voucher Assistance Case Studies – Yemen and Afghanistan
Report
Evidence and feasibility of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) for sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian emergencies. There is limited evidence about the effectiveness and feasibility of CVA, and about its overall effect on SRHR outcomes, particularly in humanitarian settings. Therefore,...
SPACE – Options for rapid delivery (payment) of cash transfers for COVID-19 responses and beyond
Guidelines and Tools
This note describes the main strategies used by, and available to, countries to deliver cash support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of the note is to inform both ongoing responses to COVID-19 and medium to long term investments in delivery mechanisms that could be used to respond to...
Linking Humanitarian Cash and Social Protection for an Effective Cash Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Report
The Grand-Bargain (GB) Sub-group on Linking Humanitarian Cash and Social Protection issues a 1-pager calling on all GB signatories to use all means at their disposal to deliver on their commitment to link humanitarian cash and social protection where appropriate for an effective cash response to the...
Programming Guidance: Embedding Localisation in the Response to COVID-19
Guidelines and Tools
This guidance note describes key considerations for integrating local actors into the COVID-19 social protection and/or humanitarian cash response. Local actors are defined as national and sub-national entities and can include civil society organisations (CSOs), government, private sector actors, and...
Currency in Crisis: Ways forward for GOAL Cash and Voucher Assistance in North-West Syria
Report
FULL STUDY VERSION Currency depreciation and price inflation are two of the main factors that influence Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) programming in North-West Syria. Between August 2019 and July 2020, the Syrian Pound (SYP) has dropped 161% against the US Dollar (USD), and the current trend of rapid...
Social Protection Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis in the MENA/ Arab States Region
Policy paper
This paper reflects on an ongoing initiative of the Regional UN Issue-Based Coalition on Social Protection (IBC-SP). The Group, co-chaired by ILO and UNICEF, was established in June 2020, bringing forward the activities started under the previous Regional UNDG group. The IBC-SP gathers regional experts...
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) & Housing, Land, and Property Rights
Report
The right to adequate housing has been recognized as an essential component to an adequate standard of living.1 The centrality of the right to adequate housing, which encompasses concepts such as security of tenure, affordability and habitability, are intimately related to livelihood building.2...
A Call for Action: Increase the Uptake of Cash Transfers to Ensure Rapid Response in case of Shocks
Guidelines and Tools
Despite a growing global interest in cash and voucher assistance since the beginning of the pandemic, the modality is still insufficiently used to limit the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in West and Central Africa, both by governments and humanitarian actors. This call to action, developed...
Busting myths and addressing assumptions against CVA in the region in the COVID context
Guidelines and Tools
Linking Social Protection and Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance
Report
There is a growing momentum and body of work around the idea of developing stronger links between humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and social protection (SP). This Briefing Paper for the CALP Network, based on a literature review, a survey, and interviews, is intended to inform the CALP...
COVID-19: Invest now in cash/voucher-social protection scale-up or children pay the price later
Report
Read the article here. Only socially accountable Social Protection Assistance beyond humanitarian cash/voucher programmes – if properly and quickly implemented – will protect generations of children from the aftershocks of COVID-19. Despite cash and voucher transfers becoming the tool of choice of...
COVID-19 & Urgent Need for Child-Sensitive Social Protection
Policy paper
The COVID-19 pandemic is negatively affecting children’s lives in a myriad of ways. Well-intentioned government containment and response efforts such as movement restrictions and school closures have disrupted education for more than 1.5 billion students, leaving some of the most vulnerable children...
Collaborative Cash Delivery Network – Grand Bargain – Collaboration Agreement Accomplishments 2020
Report
The Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network is pleased to present its achievements against the commitments made by our global members’ CEOs at the 2019 Grand Bargain Summit as part of our global collaboration agreement. We know we are better together, and in this time of increasing pressure on the...