Asia and Pacific
The CALP Network provides coordination, technical and policy support for organizations implementing or considering cash and voucher assistance in the Asia Pacific region. The CALP Network’s regional office is at Action Against Hunger in Manila, Philippines.
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Impossible Choices – questioning assumptions behind lock-down in low income and fragile contexts
Blog Post
“The COVID-19 pandemic will have devastating consequences on people’s livelihoods and employment, especially in post-fragile, crisis and post-crisis environments.” Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19 Over the last few weeks we’ve seen significant discussion on the CALP Network d-groups and elsewhere on what the COVID pandemic means for cash and voucher assistance (CVA). The...
CVA in COVID-19 Contexts: Guidance from the CALP Network
Guidelines and Tools
This is a summary of the key points from the many resources you shared on CVA and COVID through this document. This is a living document and we will continue to update this summary as new resources are added. The below is intended to help organisations understand and prepare for likely impacts of COVID-19 on their work, consider whether CVA is right for the contexts in which they operate and...
The CALP Network-Asia Pacific Regional Cash Working Group learning event report
Report
On 20-22 May, 27 cash working group (CWG) coordinators and regional technical focal points convened from Afghanistan, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Pacific region, the Philippines and Vietnam to share experiences and strengthen coordination between country, regional and global levels. The objectives of the event were to: 1) Share experiences and identify solutions around...
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Iraq Financial Service Providers Assessment Tools
Guidelines and Tools
Tools created by the Iraq Cash Working Group to aid the assessment of Financial Service Providers
Expression of Interest GBV Focal Point
Policy paper
The National Cash Working Group (CWG) in Iraq is calling for organizations to express their interest in nominating a staff to become the group’s GBV focal point. As outlined in the TOR for the GBV focal point (attached here), this role will work to assist the CWG in mainstreaming GBV prevention and risk...
Iraq Cash Working Group (CWG) Partner Projects Registry
Guidelines and Tools
Spreadsheet template to track all the partner projects of a Cash Working Group
Assistência em Dinheiro e Cupões que Funciona para as Mulheres: 6 lições do terreno
Report
A Assistência em Dinheiro e Cupões (CVA) é actualmente uma ferramenta comum na acção humanitária que é utilizada para fazer face, com maior dignidade, às diversas necessidades de pessoas refugiadas por motivo de crises e conflitos. Embora existam cada vez mais evidências do efeito da CVA no...
Cash and Voucher Assistance that Works for Women: 6 lessons from the field
Report
Building on CARE’s commitment to be ‘cash ready’ to achieve breakthroughs with and for women and girl, CARE commissioned a study –in Malawi, Haiti, Jordan, the Philippines and Niger–on gender-sensitive CVA that allowed actual CVA recipients to frame the discussion. This is a brief from the...
The humanitarian currency enabling children’s future – Inter-agency cash roundtable
Report
This summary report highlights key presentation insights, and recommendations from the CALP Network & World Vision co-hosted inter-agency Cash Roundtable, focusing on how CVA can be an enabler to promote child protection and child wellbeing, based on most recent research, case studies from across the...
How Cash-Based Approaches affect Nutrition Outcomes: Case Studies from World Vision cash programmes in Bangladesh and South Sudan
Report
Case studies South Sudan & Bangladesh – analysis of how different modalities meet their basic needs with flexibility and dignity, esp. contributing to improved nutrition outcomes. Factors such as spending patterns, availability of nutritious food in markets, dietary changes & coping strategies, transfer...
End-line Survey Report: Cash transfers for rapid livelihoods recovery of volcano-displaced families in Vanuatu
Report
This report documents and analyses the results of an end-line survey of the cash transfer programme (CTP), “Cash Transfers for Rapid Livelihoods Recovery of Volcano-displaced Families in Vanuatu” in Sanma province between October 2018 and March 2019. The programme was implemented by Oxfam in Vanuatu...
Webinar: Asia-Pacific Regional CWG & the CALP Network Webinar on Beneficiary Data Protection in Asia
Event
On March 7, 2019 the CALP Network and the Asia-Pacific Regional Cash Working Group hosted a webinar on beneficiary data protection in Asia. Panelists from within Asia shared experiences on steps they've taken to practice responsible data management and ways you could get started at your own organization.
Draft Report On Child Focused Shock-responsive Social Protection Pilot Options
Report
UNICEF seeks to work together with other development partners to support the Government of Mongolia (GoM) to pilot a shock-responsive social protection (SRSP) program in order to demonstrate the value of mainstreaming SRSP into the national social protection system and to generate lessons on whether and...
Memorandum of Understanding Between Ministry Of Labour And Social Protection Of Mongolia And Unicef
Guidelines and Tools
This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) sets forth the terms and understanding between the MLSP and UNICEF Mongolia to collaborate to implement a Child-focused Shock-Responsive Social Protection (SRSP) Pilot (the Climate Emergencies Child Grant), which will be separate from but based on the implementation...
Operations Manual: Shock Responsive Social Protection Pilot
Guidelines and Tools
The pilot is a test of the program design. The main objective of the pilot is to test and refine the program design, operational processes and data management systems in order to inform a decision of whether and how to scale-up.
Cash & Voucher Assistance in the 4Ws for Syria Guidance on reporting: A Companion Guide to the 2019 4Ws Glossary & Template
Guidelines and Tools
Objective
• Provide a clear guidance on how to report cash and voucher assistance (CVA) into the 4Ws.
Intended outcomes
• Partners have a common understanding of how/where to report different types of cash transfer projects.
• Humanitarian stakeholders have more accurate aggregate data for meta...
The CALP Network-Asia Pacific Regional Cash Working Group learning event report
Report
On 20-22 May, 27 cash working group (CWG) coordinators and regional technical focal points convened from Afghanistan, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Pacific region, the Philippines and Vietnam to share experiences and strengthen coordination between country, regional and global...
Syria Quarterly Humanitarian Response (Q1 January to March 2019)
Report
Summary of the humanitarian aid delivered to beneficiaries in Syria during Q1 2019
Inter-Agency Joint Cash Study: Market Functionality and Community Perception of Cash Based Assistance – Yemen
Report
Since 2015, conflict in Yemen has left 3 million people displaced and over half of the population food insecure, and has destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure. As of July 2017, much of the population had lost their primary source of income, 46% lacked access to a free improved water source and...
Afghanistan Inter-Cluster Cash Post-Distribution Monitoring (PDM) Questions
Guidelines and Tools
Post-Distribution Monitoring questions. Afghanistan 2017
Innovative Electronic Cash Transfer Programme for Emergencies. An Oxfam Visa case study in Philippines
Report
On November 8, 2013, super Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) struck the Philippines, killing more than 6,000 people, and displacing an estimated 4.4 million individuals. Through its cash transfer programme, Oxfam conducted cash for work activities, and provided cash asset recovery to more than...
Untapped Humanitarian Demand: A Business Case for Expanding Digital Financial Services
Report
The International Rescue Committee, commissioned Strategy Impact Advisors to build a return on investment (ROI) model to estimate whether or not a business case exists for expanded coverage of digital financial services in crisis-prone areas (Lebanon and the Philippines). This analysis provides...
Cash Transfers Programming and Persons of Concern
Report
A significant majority of Persons of Concern (POC) in Asia are living in non-camp, urban settings. The longer-term implications of this for assistance programmes have often been overlooked or even dismissed as being too complex or politically sensitive to consider interfering. Nevertheless, the...
