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CaLP East Africa Members Consultative Discussion
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East and Southern Africa Cash Working Group Leads meeting
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Harmonising Data Systems for Cash Transfer Programming: Three key steps for Somalia
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Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is gaining traction as a transformative tool for addressing humanitarian needs in Somalia, with people living in crisis reporting that transfers of this kind...
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Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation: Case Study Zimbabwe
Report
This case study accompanies the CaLP Network Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation. It is intended to illustrate the process of situational analysis, response analysis and response option selection presented in the GPR. The learning from this case study has...
Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation: Case Study South Sudan
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This case study accompanies the CaLP Network Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation. It is intended to illustrate the process of situational analysis, response analysis and response option selection presented in the GPR. The learning from this case study has...
Good Practice Review on Cash Assistance in Contexts of High Inflation and Depreciation
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What is this? A compilation of good practices to assist humanitarian actors designing and implementing cash programmes, including multipurpose cash (MPC) and cash for sectoral outcomes. The rationale for this document is the growing challenge of inflation and currency depreciation in contexts in which...
Eastern Africa Regional CWG meeting
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This meeting will provide space for National CWGs to share updates on the use of CVA in the various ongoing crisis in the region, ongoing work by the CWGs and challenges faced. The CWGs will also collectively set a research agenda for CaLP and the Regional Cash Working Group based on what the evidence...
Strengthening locally led humanitarian action through cash preparedness
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This research, produced by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s Cash Hub and CashCap, looks at the links between CVA and localisation to understand how cash, and cash preparedness, can help to further localisation and strengthen locally led humanitarian action. It examines three questions: 1) How...
Disability Inclusive Cash Assistance: Learnings from Practice in Humanitarian Response”
Guidelines and Tools
This case study collection describes lessons learned from seven inclusive humanitarian cash transfer projects implemented from 2015 – 2020 in Niger, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, and Indonesia, and five ongoing projects from the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic responses. This good practice...
Data Protection Awareness Symposium: A collaborative Event with the Data Commissioner
Members event
In partnership with the Kenya Red Cross Society & the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, we are inviting you for a Data Protection Symposium to raise awareness among humanitarian organizations and other actors on personal data protection principles as applied in humanitarian activities.
Transfers with Impact – Pathway to Link Humanitarian Cash to Social Protection through Social Accountability
Policy paper
In response to the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, governments have introduced over 1,600 social protection measures in almost all the world’s countries and territories. Cash assistance – a critical intervention in supporting the world’s most vulnerable people – also grew by 240% during...
Eastern Africa Regional CWG Meeting on CVA for Health Outcomes: towards a regional action plan
Members event
Workshop to facilitate exchange of learning on CVA for health outcomes, support improved coordination between cash and health actors and inform an action plan for CVA and health in the region. Participants will include both CVA and health practitioners in the region. Date and Time: 8 and 9 June, from...
Somalia CVA Case Study: Cash and Voucher Assistance and Gender-Based Violence Risk Mitigation
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In order to better understand the potential risks for women and girls that may be created by the provision of humanitarian cash assistance, Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) experts from Somalia worked closely together to evaluate existing CVA interventions in Somalia and...