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Cash and Voucher Assistance Policy and Funding
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Explore cash and voucher assistance policy and funding, including its rapid growth and potential to reach 30-50% of humanitarian aid.
The Grand Bargain
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The Grand Bargain had a significant influence on humanitarian cash and voucher assistance. Find out what the Grand Bargain means and why it’s important.
Financial assistance for people in crisis
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In a crisis what financial flows are available to people? From remittance, microfinance, savings, loans and humanitarian cash and voucher assistance.
Cash for Work
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Learn how Cash for Work programmes can aid communities during a humanitarian crisis, as well as their objectives, activities and advantages.
Conditional Cash Transfers
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What are conditional cash transfers and when are they used in a humanitarian response? The Cash 101 explains the pros and cons and examples of conditional cash.
What are the benefits of Cash and Voucher Assistance in humanitarian action?
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Cash and voucher assistance is a popular and effective type of humanitarian aid. We explore the benefits of CVA including how it is usually preferred by crisis affected people.
Multipurpose cash assistance
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What is multipurpose cash assistance? We explore what this term means in the context of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance.
Cash, Vouchers and In-Kind Goods and Services
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What is better for a humanitarian response: cash transfers, in-kind assistance or vouchers? We explore the pros and cons of each type of aid.
Financial Inclusion
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Discover how humanitarian cash and voucher assistance can promote financial inclusion. What does financial inclusion mean and what are the benefits?
Unconditional Cash Transfers
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Learn about Unconditional Cash Transfers and how they offer flexible, dignified assistance in humanitarian crises.
What are Cash Transfers?
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Learn all about cash transfers with the Cash 101 including their purpose, examples of their use, types of cash transfer and why people tend to prefer them.
Disaster preparedness: Planning for emergency cash and voucher assistance
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Learn how Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) supports disaster preparedness, enabling people to cope and respond effectively during crises.
CVA and Development Programmes
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Discover the link between Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and longer-term development programmes. Explore examples and benefits of linking CVA with social protection.
Disaster relief: Emergency cash and voucher assistance
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Discover the value of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in Disaster Relief & Recovery efforts. Learn how CVA supports immediate needs and long-term resilience.
Social protection and cash and voucher assistance (CVA)
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Explore Social Protection & CVA: Understand social safety nets, cash assistance & humanitarian aid. Examples, linkages, challenges & benefits explained.
Event Report: The feasibility of a route-based approach with CVA: The case of Guatemala
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In 2022, CALP recognized the importance of human mobility and CVA and invited its network to contribute to the evidence and debate. CALP conducted the study People are on the move: Can the world of CVA keep up? Analysis of the use of CVA in the context of human mobility in the Americas examined the use of...
E-Cash Pilot: Digital Solutions for Rural Communities
Report
An innovative digital cash project piloted by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province has successfully demonstrated a new and more secure way of providing humanitarian assistance while significantly enhancing the inclusion and resilience of rural...
Pathways Toward a Green Humanitarian Response
Report
The humanitarian sector is grappling with the task of reducing its negative impacts upon the climate and environment. Despite growing awareness of the need to shift towards greener action, tangible change and outcomes have remained frustratingly limited, while the impacts of climate and environmental...
Webinar series: Exploring linkages between Cash and Voucher Assistance and Social Protection in West and Central Africa
Webinar
There was a lot of buzz on the need to link humanitarian assistance to social protection (SP) systems, especially during the COVID pandemic. The linkage should encompass various contexts from stable well-organised states, preferred context by development and social protection stakeholders, to conflict...
Addressing Negative Socioeconomic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic through Social Protection in Viet Nam – Supporting incomes and livelihoods with cash assistance in Dong Nai province
Case Study
In late April 2021, Viet Nam faced its fourth wave of COVID-19, with over 895 000 new cases reported. COVID-19 and related restrictions hindered livelihood options and vulnerable households faced financial stress to cover basic needs. Some of them lost their income and were unable to return to home...
