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Data Responsibility in Cash and Voucher Assistance – a toolkit for 2021
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Linda Raftree, author of the CALP Network’s ‘Data Responsibility Toolkit for CVA Practitioners’, tells us about this new publication and what it means for people working in the field of cash and voucher assistance (CVA).
CVA, plus information: what happens when cash recipients are kept in the loop?
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Max Seilern and Hannah Miles from Ground Truth Solutions reveal the positive impacts of simply being more open about cash programming with cash recipients.
Demystifying the Minimum Expenditure Basket
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Reflections from the CALP Network and WFP’s joint webinar series on MEBs.
Share, news, research, jobs and more with other cash specialists
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If you need to reach out to an audience of cash and voucher assistance professionals, CALP can help. The CALP Network’s website is a great place to share your cash related blogs, jobs, events, research plans and publications. 1. Share your jobs (CALP members only) Advertise CVA-related...
Cash assistance: how design influence VfM?
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In a context where the needs are increasing and funding is likely to drop, how do we make sure that every penny is bringing value to the users?
This short video presents the main findings of the Key Aid report on the question of how specific design decisions related to cash assistance...
Transferring power to local CVA actors : Rhetoric vs Reality
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One of the major changes we’ve seen between the publication of the first State of the World’s Cash report in 2018 and this year’s report is an increased focus on the importance of localisation. If taken seriously, localisation could shake the foundations of the humanitarian system and radically...
When recipients of aid are in the driving seat – everything changes for the better – here’s why….
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Imagine living under a government with largely benevolent intentions which believes itself to be a democracy and wants to do better. However, at the same time they fail to institute effective mechanisms for citizen participation in decision-making and have a habit of making selective use of the data...
As Cash and Voucher Assistance scales up, can quality keep pace? Four systemic changes needed.
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A decade ago, the use of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) was a fringe activity limited to small, scattered projects. Five years ago, CVA was still viewed with scepticism by many and comprised less than eight percent of international humanitarian assistance (IHA). Today, while critics remain, cash is...
Is cash transforming the humanitarian system or is the system limiting how cash is used?
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At the State of World’s Cash 2020 launch event, Sorcha O’Callaghan, Director of Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI warned that, “Cash offers a huge transformative potential, but as far as the system is privileging the interest of the agencies over people in crisis, we won’t be able to see...
Five practical insights on linking humanitarian assistance and social protection
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With COVID-19 increasing interest in the concept of linking humanitarian assistance with national social protection systems, Gabrielle Smith shares some practical tips for humanitarian practitioners on how this can be achieved. Gabrielle is an expert on the FCDO- and GDC-funded SPACE initiative which is...
How to build a Humanitarian Response Plan that makes a difference: tips on accountability and cash
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It’s humanitarian planning season once again! The CALP Network’s Sophie Tholstrup and Ground Truth Solutions’ Meg Sattler reflect on how to use the humanitarian planning process to build more effective, people-centred responses.
المساعدات النقدية والقسائم وكوفيد-19: تقييم السوق عن بُعد ومراقبته
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بينما يقوم العملون الميدانيون بتكييف برامجهم مع كوفيد-19، يقوم الزملاء عبر أعضائنا ومجموعات العمل النقدي بتحديد تحديات متعددة. تعمل شبكة CALP مع الآخرين لتطوير سلسلة من...
Global Remittances to Suffer a Blow From COVID-19
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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...
Migrating with dignity: MPCA to Venezuelan families in Peru
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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...
MPCA ‘Plus’ assistance to people on the move: the case of Venezuelans in Peru
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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...
CVA for COVID-19: Listen to people and act on what they say
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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...
مساعدات النقد والقسائم وفيروس كورونا المستجدّ: تكييف آليّات التسليم
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بينما يقوم العاملون الميدانيون بتكييف برامجهم مع فيروس كورونا المستجد، يقوم الزملاء عبر المنظمات ذات العضوية في شراكة التعلم النقدي ومجموعات العمل النقدية بتحديد...
So COVID-19, there’s an app for that…
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In an earlier blog we explored the implications of COVID-19 adaptations in CVA response on an individuals’ right to privacy. We also argued that data portability in CVA could be explored as part of an opportunity to build back better. In this guest blog from Alesh Brown, founder at TrustWorks.io, we...
The Caribbean is ‘cash ready’ – but are humanitarian actors?
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The Caribbean Atlantic hurricane season starts today, amidst the unprecedented COVID-19 response. At the launch of the CALP Network’s “Winds of Change” briefing note on the use of CVA in the Caribbean, Ms. Andria Grosvenor, Acting Deputy Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency...
CVA response – COVID-19, privacy, carrots and open banking
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Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, there has been heightened interest in the use of technology for humanitarian assistance provision, both to help fight the spread of the pandemic through a plethora of tracing apps, and to help reach people who have been worst hit economically with remote registration...