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Cash Working Groups

A directory of cash working groups from around the globe organised by region.

A Cash Working Group (or Basic Needs Working Group in some responses) is a forum which facilitates the coordination of cash and voucher assistance within a humanitarian response. Functions of Cash Working Groups (CWGs) can include coordinating on issues such as transfer values, targeting, delivery mechanisms, MEB development, and harmonizing tools and guidance. CWGs might be established at both national and regional levels depending on the scope and scale of a response.

Cash Working Group – Regional/Global Focus

Americas Cash Working Groups

US & Canada

Holly Radice, holly.radice@calpnetwork.org

Steering Committee Members:

Benjamin Phillips, BPhillips@ChildFund.org

Qundeel Khattak, qkhattak@savechildren.org

Cash Working Group-R4V

Web page: https://www.r4v.info/

Contact: cbi.rwg@gmail.com

Frequently asked questions

 

Latin America and the Caribbean CWG Leads’ meetings

Actas de reunión de líderes de GTM de las Américas

The regional CWG Leads meet every two months to share updates and discuss common thematic issues. (Invitation only)

 

Asia-Pacific Regional Cash Working Group

The Asia-Pacific Regional Cash Working Group is supported by a co-chairing arrangement between WFP, IFRC and OCHA.

Contact information

Daniel Gilman
gilmand@un.org

Mulugeta HANDINO
mulugeta.handino@wfp.org

Vlad Cozma
vlad.cozma@wfp.org

Additional information

East Africa Regional Cash Working Group

The Chair is Sapenzie Ojiambo, CALP Network: sapenzie.ojiambo@calpnetwork.org.

The Co-Chair is Zhou, Tinomuzivashi, Plan International: Tinomuzivashi.zhou@plan-international.org

 

Global Cash Working Group

The Global Cash Working Group (GCWG) is a platform for actors to collaborate and address key issues related to cash and voucher assistance (CVA). The GCWG seeks to link global cash initiatives and actors more systematically with evidence from and best practice in the field and the broader humanitarian system. 

MENA Regional Technical Forum

  • The platform focuses on sharing information and other key developments, including pieces of work and learnings from the MENA region.
  • In addition, four communities of practice focused on localization, MPC, social protection linkages, and health convene online to share learnings and develop common tools, or guidance notes.

Pacific Regional Cash Working Group (PRCWG)

The PRCWG seeks to strengthen collaboration on CVA in both disaster preparedness and response, as well as financial access & inclusion, social protection and other economic inclusion and/or market-based programming involving the transfer of cash or voucher payments to households.

Southern Africa Regional Cash Working Group

Co-Chair Sharon Sibanda WVI Sharon_Sibanda@wvi.org
Co-Chair Bhekithemba NCUBE WFP bhekithemba.ncube@wfp.org

West and Central Africa Regional Cash Working Group

Contacts

All the WCAF regional Cash Working Group minutes and recordings are available here

Cash Working Group – Country Focus

Afghanistan

Contact information

Rami Berikdar, mohammed.beirkdar@crs.org

Additional information

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Contact information:

Secretariat: Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Contact Person: Azra Bričić, azra@rcsbh.org

Brazil

Burkina Faso

Contacts

Rukiye Uysal
(Lead, CashCap hébergée par PAM)
E-mail : uysal.rukiye@wfp.org

Alpha Keita
(Co-lead, WFP )
E-mail : alpha.keita@wfp.org

Sarata J. Estelle KABORE
(Co-lead, CRS)
E-mail : sarata.kabore@crs.org

Burundi

Position/Role Name Organization Email
Co-Lead Saadia Yahouza Iro Kode UNOCHA yahouzairo@un.org
Co-Lead Arcade NIMUBONA Government sep.arcade@gmail.com
Co-lead Robert OKIROR WFP robert.okiror@wfp.org

Central African Republic

Serge Arnaud Beremwoudougou WFP serge.beremwoudougou@wfp.org
Valerie Van Zutphen CONCERN Valerie.Zutphen@concern.net
Claude Meuga OCHA meuga@un.org
Ndo-Neting Zaboua Sogboua OCHA zabouasogboua@un.org

 

Chad

Contacts

Co-chair programmatique (OXFAM)

Hadaogo Yougbare

hadaogo.yougbare@oxfam.org

Co-chair non-programmatique (OCHA)

Miguel Serrano Palero

serranom@un.org

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Contacts

Co-chair programmatique (Mercy Corps)

SANI Dan Aoude

esani@mercycorps.org

Co-chair non-programmatique (OCHA)

Rickain Kalanda Lubo

kalanda@un.org

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

 

Egypt

CWG Lead: Alma Dozic
Contact: DOZIC@unhcr.org

 

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El Salvador

Henry Montano, Lead:
henry.montano@wfp.org

Cristina Galvez, Lead:
cristina.galvez@wfp.org

Brenda Liliana de Cid, Co-lead:
brenda.delcid@savethechildren.org

Ludin Chavez, co-lead
Ludin.Chavez@savethechildren.org

 

Eswatini

Co-chairs Danger Nhlabatsi Red Cross dnhlabatsi@redcross.org.sz
Bheki Ginindza WFP bheki.ginindza@wfp.org
Victor Mahlalela NDMA victor@ndma.org.sz
Zakhele Dlamini WVI zakhele_dlamini@wvi.org

Ethiopia

Coordinator(Secretary) Tawil Ahmed Adel IOM atawil@iom.int
Coordination support lead Nurhussen Feki Ethiopia CWG coordination_support@ethiopia-cwg.org>
Technical Co-Chair Mitiku, Masresha Plan International Masresha.Mitiku@plan-international.org
Technical Co-Chair Samson Muradzikwa UNICEF smuradzikwa@unicef.org

Germany

Siara Costa, World Vision: siara.costa@wveu.org

Sweta Kannan, German Federal Foreign Office: s08-6@auswaertiges-amt.de

Leonie Lietz, German Federal Foreign Office: s08-60@auswaertiges-amt.de

 

Greece

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Guatemala

Honduras

Indonesia

Contact information

moektijasih@un.org

Website:

https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/indonesia/cash-working-group

Iraq

ICF Lead: Mireia Termes
Contact: mireia.termes@wfp.org

ICF Co-Lead: Annette Savoca
Contact: annette.savoca@peopleinneed.net

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Jordan

Contacts

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Kenya

CWG Co lead Peter Murgor Kenya Red cross murgor.peter@redcross.or.ke
CWG Chair Girma Government-NDMA hussein.jirma@ndma.go.ke

Laos

Contact information

Dale Wilson
dale.Wilson@wfp.org

Lebanon

CWG Lead: Ruba Cheaib
Contact: cheaib@unhcr.org

 

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Libya

CWG Lead: Mauro Clerici
Contact: clericim@unhcr.org

Libya Cash Working Group is based in Tunisia.

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Madagascar

Co-Lead-Partner Level Irenee Arimanana Ravelojaona UNICEF iravelojaona@unicef.org
Lead-Government level Dr RIVOMANANA Tsarahita Ghisbert Government-Madagascar ghisbert.dgps@gmail.com
Co-lead-Government level Colonel Aritiana Faly Fabien Government-Madagascar aritiana23@yahoo.fr

Malawi

Co-Chair Mathias FUNSANANI WFP mathias.funsanani@wfp.org
Co-Chair Steve Kamtimaleka WFP steve.kamtimaleka@savethechildren.org

Mauritania

Contacts

 

Nouakchott Fatimetou LAHWERTHI PAM fatimetou.lahwerthi@wfp.org
Moulaye Hassen Zeidane MEF moulayehz@gmail.com

México

Abraham Gonzalez, Co-lead:
abgonzalez@iom.int

Moldova

Co-chair: Ministry of Labour and Social Protection

and

Hanna Mattinen, mattinen@unhcr.org.

Mozambique

The co-chairs are Chiara Dara, WFP, chiara.dara@wfp.org (and Sanna Juntunen, WFP, sanna.juntunen@wfp.org, until August 2021) and Angelo Pontes, World Vision, angelo_pontes@wvi.org.

Myanmar

Contact information

Thinthin Aye
Thinthin.Aye@wfp.org

John Nelson
jnelson@mercycorps.org

Occupied Palestinian Territory (or oPt)

National Cash Coordinator : Luca Sangalli
Contact: lsangalli@pt.acfspain.org

Gaza Cash Coordinator: Ahmad Abu Shammaleh
Contact: abushammaleha@un.org)

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Pakistan

Contact information

Chair: WFP: Sarah Torbey, sara.torbey@wfp.org

Co-Chair: FAO: Raja Jahangee, raja.jahangeer@fao.org

Philippines

Contact information

Maria Agnes Palacio: palacio@un.org,

Additional information

Peru

 

Poland

Romania

Slovakia

Led by Social Policy Department

co-lead by Ms. Elizabeth Barnhart BARNHART@unhcr.org

Somalia

Co-Chair Francesca Sangiorgi Concern francesca.sangiorgi@concern.net
Chair Jessa Serna WFP jessa.serna@wfp.org

South Sudan

South Sudan Cash Working Group:

CWG Coordinator MUHAMMAD USMAN IOM/CashCap umuhammad@iom.int
iacwgss@gmail.com
Co-Lead Ibrahim Garba CCD ibrahim.garba@crs.org

Sudan

Sudan Cash Working Group

Co-Lead Nathalie Klein WFP nathalie.klein@wfp.org

Syria

Syria – Whole of Syria

CWG Advisor: Fe Kagahastian
Contact: cashcap.syria@gmail.com

Syria – Damascus based

CWG Lead: Mourad Khawaja
Contact: mkhawaja@caritas.ch

Syria – NWS

CWG Lead: Bihter Moschini
Contact: cbr.twg@gmail.com

Syria-NES

CWG Deputy Coordinator: Zuhair Hassoon
Contact: cashdeputycoordnes@gmail.com

 

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Turkey

CWG Lead: Ahmet Unver
Contact: unver@unhcr.org

 

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Uganda

Uganda Cash Working Group

Coordinator Stephan Deutscher WFP stephan.deutscher@wfp.org
Cash Based Interventions Associate Monther Alaff UNHCR alaff@unhcr.org
Coordinator Eunice Mwende WFP eunice.mwende@wfp.org

Ukraine

Paul de Carvalho-Pointillart –  pointillart@un.org

Marga Ledomarga.ledo@nrc.no

Mustafa Hadeedmhadeed@iom.int

Ukraine - Refugee Situation

Venezuela

Vietnam

Contact information

Van Nguyen
van.Nguyen@ifrc.org

Thaianh Nguyen
thaianh.Nguyen@fao.org

Yemen

CWG Adviser: Abdulrazzaq Saleh
Contact: abdulrazzaq.saleh@un.org

CWG Adviser: Elsy Ghanameh
Contact: elsy.ghanameh@drc.ngo

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Zimbabwe

Co-Chair Clayton Mafuratidze CARE ClaytonMa@carezimbabwe.org
Albert MURAISA WFP albert.muraisa@wfp.org

Co-Chair
Andreas Deuble,WFP
andreas.deuble@wfp.org

Co-Chair
Clayton Mafuratidze, CARE
ClaytonMa@carezimbabwe.org