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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...
COVID-19, sanctions, counterterrorist financing and CVA
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Are anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing or know your customer requirements hampering your ability to reach vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic? This is what we know so far. Do you have examples which can be used to influence policy? The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it...
الحماية الاجتماعيّة والمساعدات الإنسانيّة النقديّة
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لم يسبق أن كانت قضيّة الحماية الاجتماعيّة لمساعدة الناس على مواجهة الصدمات أوضح ممّا هي عليه خلال أزمة فيروس كورونا المستجدّ الحاليّة. وتجري هذه القضايا حاليًّا في...
The $90Bn Question: Can we reach 700 million people in response to COVID-19?
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As COVID-19 impacts on the health, livelihoods and wellbeing of people around the world, governments and societies are faced with impossible choices. The impacts on the world’s most vulnerable are starting to bite, with an estimated 130 million additional people facing acute food insecurity by the end...
كوفيد-19 والتحويلات النقدية في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا: ما الممكن؟
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تقع بعض أكثر الأزمات الإنسانية تعقيدًا وطولًا في العالم في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا. كانت هذه الأزمات تعاني أصلاً من نقص التمويل وتفاقم نقاط الضعف. الآن، مثل...
Why is tracking CVA considered a challenge, and will applying minimum requirements help to make progress?
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How much humanitarian aid is delivered as cash and voucher assistance (CVA)? An innocent enough enquiry, which may not have quite opened Pandora’s box, but has released a few cans of worms. This is a very technical topic and has a lot to do with the complexities and limitations of organizational and...
Impossible Choices – questioning assumptions behind lock-down in low income and fragile contexts
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“The COVID-19 pandemic will have devastating consequences on people’s livelihoods and employment, especially in post-fragile, crisis and post-crisis environments.” Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19 Over the last few weeks we’ve seen significant discussion on the CALP Network d-groups and...
COVID-19 and CVA: how are operational actors responding?
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“The COVID-19 pandemic will have devastating consequences on people’s livelihoods and employment, especially in post-fragile, crisis and post-crisis environments.” Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19 We don’t yet know exactly how the COVID-19 pandemic will be experienced by the world’s...
مسرد مصطلحات المساعدات النقدية والقسائم باللّغة العربية: فهم مشترك وتناسق أكبر
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تم نشر أول نسخة من مسرد مصطلحات المساعدات النقدية والقسائم لشراكة التعلم النقدي في عام 2011. وذلك بهدف التشجيع على الفهم المشترك، وزيادة التنسيق والوضوح فيما يتعلق...
Cash Week 2019: How cash is driving change across the system
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Cash Week 2019 aimed to provide a space to reflect, learn, and look ahead, to ensure quality in our use of CVA at scale. The CALP team reflects on the key takeaways from the events that took place around the world, and what they mean for actors within and beyond the humanitarian sector.
A guide to Cash and Voucher Assistance at Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week
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Don’t miss any of the sessions on cash and voucher assistance during the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week, which takes place in Geneva from 3 to 7 February 2020. On Monday 3 February, dive into the week with a session from the CALP Network on the Future of Financial Assistance: Supporting...
CVA and Risks: What happens in the field, stays in the field?
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In October 2019 in Douala, Cameroon, the CALP Network facilitated a learning event exploring the risks to beneficiary protection in Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). This closed-door workshop, held as part of series of meetings and webinars on theme of CVA and risk in different regions, convened 25...
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning: how to ensure efficiency, effectiveness and accountability
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What are the key issues these and other emerging models are facing as they design to deliver better for people in crisis? What are the opportunities and challenges presented by working together differently?
The Future of Financial Assistance: Why we wrote it, and where next
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The world is changing rapidly. The way we deliver assistance is not. The CALP Network and IARAN’s new report on the Future of Financial Assistance makes clear that (i) significant change is urgently needed – new partners, new tools, new modes of collaboration, (ii) change must be drive by what’s...
Consent and Ownership in the Shift to Digital Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Part of committing to cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is committing to going digital and collecting data. While they are two different things, they are deeply intertwined. And while an organisation can ‘go digital’ without cash programmes, it’s nearly impossible to commit to cash programmes in the...
Harmonising Data Systems for Cash Transfer Programming: Three key steps for Somalia
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Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is gaining traction as a transformative tool for addressing humanitarian needs in Somalia, with people living in crisis reporting that transfers of this kind helped to build resilience and diversify livelihoods. Delivery, however, is plagued by data challenges around the...
Towards Organizational Readiness for Data Responsibility: A simple framework for responsible data champions
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This blog is the third in a series on cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and risk. While the first blog busted some myths around misappropriation and fraud in CVA, the second blog looked into a specific risk for recipients of CVA: the risk of misuse of personal data. This third, guest blog from Linda...
An ABC for MPC: What multipurpose cash can and cannot do
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Terminology Matters From cash coordination workshops in Dakar to market-based programming sessions in Geneva, anyone who has ever discussed cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in a meeting can tell you that terminology is a challenge – especially when it comes to multipurpose cash. However, speaking the...
It’s Planning Season Again – What CVA actors need to know about changes to the Humanitarian Programme Cycle
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This time last year we wrote a planning season call to arms, urging Cash Working Groups (CWGs) and Clusters to work together for better inclusion of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in the Humanitarian Response Plans (HRP). Well planning season has rolled around again, this time with some significant...
How Will Financial Assistance Look in 2030? Here are your thoughts so far
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In 2030, humanitarian crises and the ways in which humanitarian needs are met will look very different from today. The role of financial assistance is growing: it is estimated that $4.8 billion was delivered in cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in 2018, as well as $686 billion in remittances, while 2.5...
