This is a collection of useful resources related to Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and the environment curated by CALP’s Technical Advisors leading on the CVA, Climate and Environment and Community of Practice (CoP).
The State of the World’s Cash 2023. Chapter 9: Climate Change and Environmental Considerations in CVA
Climate change and the environment are now pressing concerns for the CVA community. Clarity is needed on how CVA can address needs effectively and contribute to greener programming.

CVA, Climate & Environment Community of Practice: A greener response?
This webinar focused on mitigation of the impacts of CVA on the climate and environment. It featured different perspectives on greening humanitarian action and measuring the environmental footprint of CVA, including research analysing the carbon footprint of MEBs.

CVA, Climate & Environment CoP Anticipatory Action and CVA
This first meeting of the CoP on the topic of AA and CVA focused on some of the fundamental issues and approaches, with objectives around clarity on the fundamentals of anticipatory action, providing an overview of cash in AA, exploring selected examples of AA in practice and more.

Useful documents
Post-COP 29 in Baku: Successes, challenges and next steps – Asia friendly time
Webinar recording
COP 29 took place in Baku from November 11th to November 22nd, 2024. The annual COP is the most important climate decision-making forum, whose agreements and commitments can have potentially huge impacts for people most affected by climate change. However, for the many humanitarian stakeholders who don’t directly work in the climate space, it can be difficult to find the time or opportunity...
Post-COP29 in Baku: Successes, challenges and next steps – Americas friendly time
Webinar recording
COP 29 in Baku is concluded on November 22nd, 2024. COP is the most important climate decision-making forum, whose agreements and commitments can have potentially huge impacts for the people most affected by climate change. However, for the many humanitarian stakeholders who don’t directly work in the climate space, it can be difficult to find the time or opportunity to understand, which...
CVA, Climate and Environment CoP – Webinar #4 : Unpacking Baku COP29 & sharing messages in the Network
Webinar recording
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Calculating the GHG Footprint of Food Aid using Cash Transfers
Report
In early 2021, Action Against Hunger (ACF) France is launching a GHG emissions assessment with other members of the Humanitarian Environment Network (REH). The scope of accounting target all emissions, and very quickly some activities, which can generate considerable variability in the results, are identified. Among these, one item seems to represent more than 20% of ACF-France’s overall...
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 greener approaches and processes into Pacific humanitarian action helps avoid or minimise...
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 change are increasingly exacerbating humanitarian needs and crises at an alarming pace. Many...
Rampant inflation and climate crisis: can cash cope? – Community perceptions of cash assistance and resilience in northeast Nigeria
Report
Nigeria is currently experiencing its worst financial crisis in almost 30 years. Economic reforms such as the floating of the naira and the fuel subsidy’s removal have contributed to rising inflation, which reached almost 30% in February 2024. The volatile financial climate is having a real and significant impact on crisis-affected communities in northeast Nigeria. In the BAY states (Borno,...
Scoping the Cash and Climate Landscape in East Africa and Kenya: Focusing on cash and anticipatory action
Report
In February 2024, NORCAP’s CashCap and Climate action teams undertook a joint East Africa regional and Kenya country level scoping mission about the potential of cash in anticipatory action to climate-related shocks. The main objective was to: Analyse the needs, capacity and adequacy for the CashCap and Climate Action portfolios to provide quality support to the stakeholders supporting...
Unified Cash+ Framework of Bangladesh: For anticipatory action and response
Report
This document presents a proposal for a harmonised inter-sectoral approach to cash+ (cash and other forms of support) in anticipation of rapid onset hazard events as well as the response phase. The formulations are based on the HCTT pre-crisis survey conducted in June 2023 and the workshop on the 22nd of June where the initial proposal was formulated. The aim of this initial proposal is to be...
Acting Before Disaster Strikes: The impacts of anticipatory cash transfers on climate resilience in Northeast Nigeria
Report
IRC’s research – the first experimental evidence from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on how anticipatory cash compares to post-shock cash transfers in a conflict-affected environment – highlights that anticipatory action is critical to meeting the short- and longer-term needs of households affected by both climate and crisis, especially as climate shocks continue to worsen and...
Rethinking Social Protection and Climate Change: The medium-term implications of climate change for social protection policy and programming in the Asia-Pacific region
Report
Accelerating climate change will generate significant social, economic and political disruption globally and in the Asia-Pacific region by the middle of this century. It will profoundly reshape the socio-economic risks people face and their ability to meet basic needs, significantly extending poverty and vulnerability. Social protection, the set of public measures provided by a society to...
Scoping Review on the Role of Social Protection in Facilitating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Economic Inclusion among Rural Populations
Report
Rural populations, especially small-scale producers and women, are disproportionately impacted by climate change since their livelihoods depend largely on natural resources and weather patterns. This paper reviews the available evidence on the role of social protection programmes in facilitating climate change adaptation and mitigation, with a specific emphasis on economic inclusion for...
Social Protection and Anticipatory Action to Protect Agricultural Livelihoods
Report
As the quality of climate risk information and scientific forecasting has continued to improve, the imperative to act in advance of an imminent shock in order to protect people, assets and livelihoods has also gained notable attention and increasing investment. Recognizing this opportunity, some governments, and development and humanitarian partners are trying to gain a better understanding of...
Climate Funds and Social Protection: What is the progress to date?
Report
The 21st century has witnessed a profound transformation in our understanding of the climate crisis and its far-reaching impacts. As the world grapples with the consequences of global warming, it has become increasingly clear that addressing climate change is not merely an environmental challenge but a complex socio-economic issue that requires innovative solutions. According to a report by...
Climate Risk Impacts on Employment Opportunities for Youth in Pakistan: A survey report
Report
Pakistan faces a high level of disaster risk due to its exposure to a variety of natural and climate-related hazards including earthquakes, floods, landslides, storms and extreme temperatures (WBG & ADB, 2021). Research pertaining to the impact of these hazards on youths’ access and participation in the labour market is limited. This study aims to understand how climate-related risks and...
Scaling Social Protection in Nepal: From hypotheses to reality
Report
In August 2017, Nepal experienced heavy and continuous rainfall that led to extensive flooding in 35 of the country’s 77 districts, with 18 severely affected (NPC, 2017). The flood was active from 11–14 August and affected 14,060 families, resulting in 161 deaths, 17 injuries and 22 missing persons (Bhandari et al,. 2018; MoHA, 2019). In addition to the human impacts, the housing,...
Social Protection as an Enabler in Scaling up Forecast-based Financing using Impact-based Forecasting
Report
This paper serves as an introductory brief for understanding the potential of social protection (SP) systems to be used as Forecast-based Financing (FbF) mechanisms in Asia Regional Resilience to a Changing Climate (ARRCC) countries. FbF helps to facilitate cash-based early actions prior to shocks using trigger models. Recently, there has been interest in evaluating the advantages of using...
Linking Forecast-based Financing and Social Protection: Why should national societies care?
Report
This advocacy brief aims to provide National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies with an overview of how linking Forecast-based Financing (FbF) and social protection (SP) approaches can help in early action and preparedness. It showcases examples from National Societies in Kenya, Malawi and the Philippines, which have been using SP to enhance their response capacity and contribute to...