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Cash & Voucher Assistance Design and Delivery
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At the heart of impactful humanitarian cash and voucher assistance, is effective programme delivery. Find out more about how and when CVA is delivered and by whom.
Cash For Education in Akkar
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This research aims to explore the effects of cash assistance on the ability of girls and boys in Akkar, Lebanon, to access and stay in education. It delves into the complex crisis in Lebanon, which involves economic decline, disruptions in education, and adverse impacts on vulnerable groups like girls and...
Lessons Learned Workshop Report: Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) in Response to Ukraine and Impacted Countries Crisis Emergency Appeal
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Since the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine at the end of February 2022, approximately one-third of people from Ukraine have been displaced, leading to one of the largest displacement crises in the world. From the period of 24 February 2022 until 20 November 2023, 182,047 displaced people from Ukraine...
CALP Network Annual Plans – 2024-25
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Cash is not only more efficient than other forms of humanitarian assistance in most cases, but it’s also the preferred form of support for most people in situations of crisis – creating a compelling need to increases both the use and quality of CVA. CALP’s latest Annual plan, April 2024 to March...
CVA, Climate & Environment Community of Practice: A greener response?
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Mitigating the environmental impacts of CVA
“Stop the war and let me return to my home, even if it is destroyed.” Community priorities and perceptions of aid and support in Gaza
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In early November, Ground Truth Solutions (GTS) and Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) set about talking to people in Gaza to find out what the humanitarian situation looked like from their perspective. Access challenges for large agencies are well known, but how have communities been...
Cash Feasibility Snapshot Report – Site Assessment (Round 34) and Village Assessment Survey (Round 17), August – September 2023
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Between August and September 2023, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Data and Research Unit (DRU), through its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) methodology, deployed the Site Assessment (SA) and Village Assessment Survey (VAS) tools to assess the mobility, needs and vulnerabilities of...
Concept Note: A purpose-driven global fund for scaling digital cash transfers to accelerate progress on ending extreme poverty by 2030
Policy paper
Advances a call for the creation of a new global fund dedicated exclusively to scaling digital cash transfers across low-income countries to accelerate progress on ending extreme poverty by 2030—a structure that would be very similar to GAVI. The working group is building on ideas put forward by...
“No-one has ever helped me like this.” User journeys of cash recipients in Ukraine
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Russia‘s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has caused a severe
humanitarian crisis – with widespread displacement, destruction of infrastructure, and
an urgent need for humanitarian assistance. In response, the humanitarian community
has supported the Ukrainian government to initiate...
Common Principles for Linking Humanitarian Assistance and Social Protection
Policy paper
The Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B) Working Group on Linking Humanitarian Assistance and Social Protection aims to strengthen links between humanitarian assistance (HA) and social protection (SP), with cash transfers as the main entry point. Our membership brings together...
Framework for Greening Humanitarian Action in the Pacific
Guidelines and Tools
The Pacific region is highly vulnerable to the increasingly frequent and severe disasters caused by natural hazards, including extreme weather and climate change. Whilst humanitarian responses to these disasters are increasing proportionally, their own negative impacts must be reduced. Incorporating...
Just in Time: Advancing anticipatory cash in Pakistan
Guidelines and Tools
Cash and voucher assistance in humanitarian response has grown significantly in recent years, with evidence showing that it supports the agency of recipients, reduces harmful coping strategies, supports local economies, and is a cost-effective form of humanitarian assistance.
The use of cash as a form...
Tenzin Manell
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Tenzin is CORE’s Senior Cash and Markets Advisor. Her current portfolio includes technical support and learning on CVA and livelihoods. Tenzin has a background in humanitarian and development settings and has worked for the past 13 years on economic empowerment and protection programming in Brazil,...
Inès Dalmau Gutsens
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Agnès (Inès) is currently a Cash and Markets Technical advisor within the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Cash Hub where she has a particular focus on CVA Preparedness, RCRCM CVA Communities of Practice and Learning. She has over 20 years’ experience working in the humanitarian sector mostly for...
Cash and Protection in the Ukraine Response
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This learning report stems from bilateral discussions with the Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network’s members in Ukraine and Poland, many of whom were on the cusp of designing or implementing C4P programmes as part of the Ukraine response and were seeking learning and experience from each other.
Manal Shehade
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Location: Occupied Palestinian Territories
Amadou Diop
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Location: Kenya
Can Cash Make the Humanitarian System More Accountable?
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In this episode we explore accountability issues within the humanitarian system, their root causes and potential solutions. We ask if cash and voucher assistance has a part to play in improving accountability, and what that could look like.
Donors
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CALP is currently funded by membership fees and grants from a number of institutional donors, listed below. We are grateful for the support we receive from donors and members.
Is Large-scale Cash Compatible with Locally Led Response?
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In this episode, we challenge the idea that locally led response and large-scale CVA are incompatible. We explore the myths around local actors and the barriers to further progress.