المساعدات النقدية والقسائم الخاصة بقطاعات معينة
يمكن أن تساعد المساعدات النقدية والقسائم الأشخاص في الأزمات على تلبية احتياجاتهم ضمن قطاع إنساني محدد، مثل المياه أو الغذاء أو الصحة أو المأوى أو سبل العيش أو الحماية. يمكن تقييد المساعدات النقدية والقسائم الخاص بقطاع معين أو عدم تقييده، ومشروطًا أو غير مشروط، وسيتم توفيره عادةً كجزء من حزمة شاملة قد تتضمن أيضًا المساعدة العينية والقائمة على الخدمة.
يتعين على كل قطاع النظر في مختلف الأسئلة والتحديات والمزايا والمخاطر عندما يتعلق الأمر بدعم تعافي الأشخاص في مجال خبرتهم. وهذا يتطلب أدلة وأدوات وإرشادات وقدرات. يتطلب تحقيق النتائج الخاصة بالقطاع من خلال المساعدة النقدية والقسائم أيضًا فهمًا متعدد القطاعات للاحتياجات والأمن الاقتصادي للأسرة، راجع المساعدة النقدية متعددة الأغراض. في حين أن بعض القطاعات تتمتع بخبرة كبيرة في تنفيذ المساعدات النقدية والقسائم وقد فعلت ذلك لسنوات عديدة، فإن البعض الآخر يواكب التطورات. تلتزم معظم القطاعات الإنسانية وتعمل على تكثيف جهودها في مساعدات نقدية وقسائم خاصة بقطاعات محددة. تقوم المجموعة العالمية لتنسيق القطاعات أيضًا بتنسيق العمل عبر المجموعات لتحسين القطاع القطاعي المستخدم من المساعدات النقدية والقسائم.
الأولويات الحالية
تعمل شبكة CALP بشكل وثيق مع المجموعات / فرق العمل الفنية الخاصة بالنقد داخل المجموعات العالمية، والتي كانت تحدد أولوياتها وخطط عملها لعام 2020 خلال اجتماعاتها المنتظمة. نظرة عامة وتفاصيل محددة لهذه الأولويات عبر كل مجموعة عالمية متاحة هنا.
Sector-specific CVA subpages
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Camp Coordination, Camp Management and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Education and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Food Security and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Health and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Protection and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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Shelter and Cash and Voucher Assistance
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WASH and Cash and Voucher Assistance
Thematic lead
Beyond Basic Needs: Using Cash and Voucher Assistance to Support the Transition from Basic Survival to Livelihoods Recovery in a Resource-Strapped World
Guidelines and Tools
Do you think of yourself as a “cash” person OR as a “livelihoods” person? An “emergency” practitioner OR a “recovery” practitioner? Or do you find yourself unsatisfied with the often narrow implications of these terms? We’ll never have enough funding to provide basic needs support to everyone who needs it for the entire time they are in need, even if we take advantage of the...
Looking into 2020: short overview on global clusters, CVA and the CALP Network
Presentation
Overview as 2020 begins:
• Significant progress and commitment from all global clusters on integration of CVA into their work.
• Significant interest in different regions and by some donors on sector-specific CVA.
• Challenges that remain:
o Dialogue: 1) Ensuring CVA specialists understand sector specificities and successfully bank on the technical expertise emanating...
Building Evidence to inform the Effective Use of CASH and Voucher Assistance in Emergency Sanitation and Hygiene Programming
Report
An analysis of 5 case studies of utilization of CASH/Voucher Assistance are presented and analysed in the attempt of building evidence on their utilization in emergency WASH Sanitation and HP programming. Findings and recommendations are provided on Coordination, Situation and Response Analysis, Program Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation.
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