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Eight top tips for the 2023 humanitarian planning season
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As disasters spiral globally and inflation increasing vulnerability for millions more, effective humanitarian planning has never been so important. But where to start? The CALP Network offers its...
Is mobile money preferred by cash recipients in refugee response?
Blog Post
The message from cash recipients in Uganda is clear – they have a strong preference for receiving cash via mobile money. These are the findings from a study by U-Learn and the Uganda...
Cash Policy Commitments and Getting Over Humps
Blog Post
Amos Doornbos explores what the Grand Bargain means for Cash and Voucher Assistance and what changes are still needed. This blog is a more detailed version of a piece originally published on...
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WCAF Regional Cash Working Group meeting
Event
This is a Save the Date for the next Regional Cash Working Group meeting that will take place on Wednesday 18th of January 2023, from 9am to 11am (GMT) face to face and online. The meeting will have simultaneous interpretation in English and French. The draft agenda for this meeting will...
With the stakes so high, is Cash and Voucher Assistance the lifeline it’s meant to be?
Report
This is a summary report of a study conducted with CVA recipients in the Central African Republic between June and August 2022 as part of the “Cash Barometer” project. Between June and August 2022, Ground Truth Solutions talked to nearly 1,500 CVA recipients in the three subprefectures where most...
“Money determines life, survival and everything else” People need choices for an uncertain future
Report
Ground Truth Solutions (GTS) has been collecting feedback from CVA recipients in Nigeria since 2019. In this fourth round of quantitative surveys in September 2022, we spoke with 1,981 people, including internally displaced people, host community members, and returnees, who had received cash and voucher...
Regional Cash Working Group – WCAF
Event
This is a Save the Date for the next Regional Cash Working Group meeting that will take place on Wednesday 9 November 2022, from 9am to 11am (GMT) face to face and online. The meeting will have simultaneous interpretation in English and French. The draft agenda for this meeting will be: National CWGs...
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 9 November 2022
Meeting minutes
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 9 November 2022
Spotlight on the Sahel and Central Africa: Design and implementation of CVA programmes in challenging contexts
Webinar
This September join us for a series of webinars exploring this topic.
Regional Cash Working Group – WCAF
Event
This is a Save the Date for the next Regional Cash Working Group meeting that will take place on Wednesday 7 September 2022, from 9am to 11am (GMT) face to face and online. The meeting will have simultaneous interpretation in English and French. The draft agenda for this meeting will be: Roundtable of...
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 7 September 2022
Meeting minutes
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 7 September 2022
Community Reflections: The Cumulative Impact of Keeping People Informed
Report
This briefing note presents an overview of the findings from Ground Truth Solutions’ in-depth, qualitative interviews with community representatives of displaced people and aid recipients in Nigeria and Somalia in May and June 2022. As part of the Cash Barometer initiative, we invited youth leaders,...
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – leads/co-leads – 15-16 June 2022
Meeting minutes
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG leads/co-leads – 15-16 June 2022 Session 1 Session 2