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Join our Building Individual Expertise Programme in West Africa

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The BIEP offers individuals the opportunity to benefit from a range of capacity building activities, including training, job placement and mentoring. Apply now to be part of the 2019-20 cohort in West Africa.

17 December 2018

The CALP Network’s 2018 Glossary: The key updates you need to know

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The CALP Network Glossary is a comprehensive list of the terminology used in cash and voucher assistance, updated annually to reflect evolutions in which terms are used and how. The CALP Network's Ruth McCormack summaries the major revisions in the 2018 edition.

13 December 2018

The CALP Network Publishes Collection of Research Papers to Fill the Evidence Gap Around Gender and Cash

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UN Women, Concern Worldwide and World Food Programme are the first to contribute research to this ongoing series of papers.

9 December 2018

New Common Cash System Announced by WFP, UNHCR, UNICEF and OCHA

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On 5 December 2018 WFP, UNHCR, UNICEF and OCHA announced the launch of a joint system for the design, delivery and monitoring of cash assistance. 

What I learned at the CALP Network’s Celebrating Digital Humanitarian Cash Event

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This workshop was a triumphant but sad goodbye to ELAN, the Electronic Cash Transfer Learning Action Network. This was their closing event after four years of hard work, and they leave behind a rather magnificent legacy of tools, guidance, learning, webinars, resources and case studies on how to best...

26 November 2018

Cash Week 2018: Looking around and looking ahead

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Cash Week 2018 aimed to do two things: challenge us all to think differently about our work and to carve out a space to do so. In this blog, the CALP Network's Sophie Tholstrup reflects on the key debates from the week, and asks how we can build on this momentum and identify new ways of working to meet...

26 November 2018

Standards on Cash and Markets: Time to raise the bar

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Humanitarian action is changing fast, and an updated set of shared standards will be crucial in upholding quality among a new generation of responders.  The launch of the new Sphere Handbook on November 6th represents the most comprehensive effort to date review the humanitarian standards, to keep...

20 November 2018

It’s humanitarian planning season! Ten tips for strengthening the inclusion of cash assistance as part of the HRP process

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It’s November and humanitarian planning season is in full swing. To its advocates, the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) process is a critical opportunity to collectively allocate resources and capacities to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs in a given context....

31 October 2018

Le CALP Network annonce de nouveaux partenariats avec Bioforce, RedR UK et Key Aid Consulting

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Le CALP Network est heureux d’annoncer des partenariats de formation avec Bioforce (www.institutbioforce.fr), RedR UK (www.redr.org.uk) et Key Aid Consulting (www.keyaidconsulting.com) pour la prestation de cours accrédités par le CALP Network, étendant ainsi la portée des efforts de renforcement...

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The CALP Network’s Karen Peachey in Devex: “For cash transfers to work, we can’t ignore gender”

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Our interim director Karen Peachey is featured on Devex.com discussing the need to build the evidence around the relationship between gender and cash transfers. The CALP Network’s ‘Collected Papers on Gender and Cash Transfers’ is out now.

8 October 2018