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Ep. 3. What does the future of financial assistance mean for your work today?
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In this episode of the CashCast we speak to Meg Sattler from Ground Truth Solutions, Lars Peter Nissen from ACAPS, and Jenny Caswell from GSMA about the changes we should be seeing today, to...
CVA & COVID-19: Remote Market Assessment and Monitoring
Blog Post
As field practitioners adapt their programmes to COVID-19, colleagues across our membership and Cash Working Groups are identifying multiple challenges. CaLP is working with others to develop a...
Global Remittances to Suffer a Blow From COVID-19
Blog Post
CaLP’s Future of Financial Assistance report highlighted the importance for CVA actors of working with and alongside other financial flows, which often dwarf volumes of humanitarian aid in...
CVA for COVID-19: Listen to people and act on what they say
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Not everyone will be personally affected by the COVID-19 health crisis, but nearly every household will feel its effects economically. For many people in humanitarian crises, particularly those at...
CVA & COVID-19: Adapting Delivery Mechanisms
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As field practitioners adapt their programmes to COVID-19, colleagues across our membership and Cash Working Groups are identifying multiple challenges. CaLP is working with others to develop a...
So COVID-19, there’s an app for that…
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In an earlier blog we explored the implications of COVID-19 adaptations in CVA response on an individuals’ right to privacy. We also argued that data portability in CVA could be explored as part...
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Cash Week 2018: Looking around and looking ahead
Blog Post
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, CaLP'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 humanitarian...
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...
CaLP’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. CaLP’s ‘Collected Papers on Gender and Cash Transfers’ is out now.
CaLP Presents Cash Week 2018: Networking, learning, visioning
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Join us in London from 15-19 October 2018 to advance issues, reflect and prepare for the future of cash transfer programming.
Three Takeaways from the ECOSOC-HAS Discussion on Linking Cash Transfers with Social Protection Systems
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There is growing interest from governments and donors alike in building or strengthening social protection systems to protect the poorest and most vulnerable people. CaLP's Lynn Yoshikawa joined a panel with representatives from governments, UN agencies, NGOs and donors to discuss the implications for...
New Markets Support Tip Sheet and Webinar
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Have you heard about market support programming but don’t quite understand what it is or how to put it into practice? CaLP has developed a tip sheet with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and our Markets Working Group, and will share tips and tricks from the community of practice in a launch webinar on 19...
The Grand Bargain Cash Meetings: what did we learn, how are we doing, where next?
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After cash focal points from Grand Bargain signatory organisations gathered in Rome for the second annual meeting of the Grand Bargain cash workstream, we ask how much progress has been made towards commitments, and what remains to be done.
#SOWC2018 Launch Event and Webinar for the Asia Region, 16 May
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CaLP will launch the State of the World’s Cash report in the Asia region through a dedicated event with the Regional Cash Working Group. More information and details of how to join here.
Upcoming Event: Learning from CTP in the Ebola response
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Join us for a dissemination event on May 29 in Dakar, Senegal, to explore the findings from CaLP's research on the use of cash transfers in the Ebola response, and how this can inform our responses in future epidemics.
ERC Learning Event: Scaling up our tools and approaches for multi-purpose cash grants
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Watch the videos and read the recommendations from the ERC MPG Consortium event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.