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Cash and vouchers can improve health outcomes – but you must understand the challenges first
Blog Post
In this blog, we focus on the challenges related to achieving health-related outcomes through Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in humanitarian response. Using CVA to advance health outcomes is different from using CVA in other contexts and challenges practitioners to work in new...
CALP is Growing…
News
An update from the CALP Network’s Director Karen Peachey
A short history of cash and voucher assistance – 6 key lessons and observations
Blog Post
How has cash and voucher assistance evolved? Why has the use of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) increased so rapidly in recent years? How has it emerged from the fringes to become an established part of all major humanitarian responses? Four people who have travelled the CVA path reflect on...
Episode 5: A Short History of Cash and Voucher Assistance.
Podcast
In this 5th episode of CashCast we take a look back over the evolution of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and then leap forward to explore where it’s going next.
Seven years of Cash and Voucher Assistance: Parting words of wisdom from two amazing the CALP Networkies
Blog Post
Cash and Voucher Assistance has changed dramatically over the past seven years. Nathalie Klein, the CALP Network’s Regional Representative for West Africa, and Sophie Tholstrup, the CALP Network’s Policy Coordinator have recently left the organisation after seven and three years respectively. But...
Cash in a COVID-19 crisis: Adapting approaches to assisting Jordan-based refugees
Blog Post
How did cash actors delivering assistance to refugees in Jordan adapt to the COVID-19 crisis? What were the main challenges and did cash actors overcome these? Here to tell us more is André Dürr, an independent consultant specialising in cash transfers who recently carried out a study for the CALP Network.
Can Cash Transfers Help Syrian Refugees Manage Diabetes?
Blog Post
Shannon Doocy, Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health describes which combination of interventions resulted in the most effective diabetes treatment for Syrian refugees based in Jordan.
Data Responsibility in Cash and Voucher Assistance – a toolkit for 2021
Blog Post
Linda Raftree, author of the CALP Network’s ‘Data Responsibility Toolkit for CVA Practitioners’, tells us about this new publication and what it means for people working in the field of cash and voucher assistance (CVA).
CVA, plus information: what happens when cash recipients are kept in the loop?
Blog Post
Max Seilern and Hannah Miles from Ground Truth Solutions reveal the positive impacts of simply being more open about cash programming with cash recipients.
The CALP Network & CARE: Video on Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Gender
Blog Post
The CALP Network’s first training video in Spanish developed in collaboration with CARE provides an overview of the relationship between gender and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) structured around the humanitarian project cycle. The video forms a module as part of UN Women’s Gender Equality in...