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Targeting in Protracted Crises: Nigeria case study
Report
This country case study focuses on Nigeria and the specific challenge of conflict, violence, and insecurity. Using four waves of General Household Survey data covering the period 2010 to 2019, we analyse trends in poverty, food insecurity, shocks, and coping strategies among different population groups, differentiated according to where they reside in the country and the degree to which those...
CVA Feasibility Assessment: Upper East and Upper West Regions, Ghana
Report
The worsening security situation in Burkina Faso has led to the influx of over 15,000 asylum seekers into the Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana. This has placed significant pressure on the already limited resources of the host communities, particularly in the area hosting the settlements of Tarikom and Zini. Plan International Ghana conducted a feasibility assessment of a Cash and...
How is CVA operationalized at Humanitarian Service Points (HSP)?
Guidelines and Tools
The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s Humanitarian Service Points (HSPs) are designed to create a safe and welcoming space for migrants to receive services at key points on migration routes. As part of their toolkit on HSP, there is a module on cash and voucher assistance. The module contains the key things programme designers, staff, and volunteers should think about, including...
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Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – November 2024
Meeting minutes
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – 6 November 2024 Watch the recording here or on YouTube
Humanitarian Crisis in the DRC: Why Cash is Best
Report
The policy brief, “Humanitarian Crisis in the DRC: Why Cash is Best” draws on from evidence and years of first-hand experience of implementing humanitarian programmes in the DRC to demonstrate that cash programming is critical to the effectiveness of the response in the country, where humanitarian...
Implementation Guide: Cash transfers to promote access to adult labour in cocoa communities
Guidelines and Tools
Increasing the availability of affordable adult labour in cocoa-growing communities is key for addressing child labour. One approach proven to be effective in stimulating the use and availability of adult labour is encouraging farming families to hire adult labour groups by providing them with cash...
Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCT) in the DRC: A pilot study assessing the socio-economic effects in an artisanal mining zone of Maniema Province
Report
‘Housing’ is one of the indicators that is used to measure the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) of people: a household is considered deprived regarding housing if at least one of the three materials for roof, walls or floor are inadequate. The endline study confirms a significant increase in...
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 11 of September 2024 from 9am to 11am (GMT) face to face and online. The meeting will be interpreted simultaneously into English and French. The draft agenda for this meeting is as follows: New...
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – September 2024
Meeting minutes
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – 11 September 2024 Watch the recording here or on YouTube
Empowering Communities: Group Cash Transfers to Women-led Community Based Organizations in Khartoum, Sudan
Report
On April 15th, 2023, violent conflict erupted in Sudan resulting in many deaths, a public health crisis, and the ongoing, large-scale displacement upwards of 8 million people, making Sudan the current largest displacement crisis in the world. The ongoing fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and...
Webinar series: Linking CVA & Social Protection through feedback Mechanism, Nigeria Case Study
Webinar recording
This webinar was the second in a series of regional webinars designed to explore the linkages between humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and social protection in West and Central Africa. Following our initial regional webinar, “Exploring Linkages between Cash and Voucher Assistance and...
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 July 1Oth, 2024 from 10am -12pm (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 presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – July 2024
Publication
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – 10 July 2024 Watch the recording here or on YouTube
IOM Cash-Based Interventions: Annual Report and Case Studies 2023
Report
In recent years, IOM has placed special attention on increasing the use and coordination of cash-based interventions (CBI) across the organization in line with the Grand Bargain commitments and the IOM CBI Strategy 2022–2026.
In 2023, IOM continued to increase the use of CBI modalities to empower aid...
Targeting in Protracted Crises: Nigeria case study
Report
This country case study focuses on Nigeria and the specific challenge of conflict, violence, and insecurity. Using four waves of General Household Survey data covering the period 2010 to 2019, we analyse trends in poverty, food insecurity, shocks, and coping strategies among different population groups,...
CVA Feasibility Assessment: Upper East and Upper West Regions, Ghana
Report
The worsening security situation in Burkina Faso has led to the influx of over 15,000 asylum seekers into the Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana. This has placed significant pressure on the already limited resources of the host communities, particularly in the area hosting the settlements of...
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 May 22nd, from 12pm to 2pm (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 round...
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – May 2024
Meeting minutes
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – 22 May 2024 Watch DCA presentation here. Watch the recording here or on YouTube:
CWGs Leads & Co-leads Meetings
Meeting minutes
Minutes from the Leads & Co-leads CWG meeting that took place on May 13th 2024
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...
Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) & Child Protection (CP) Global Study – Research Report in the DRC, Egypt, Lithuania and the Philippines
Report
Since 2022, Save the Children has been scaling up its use of CVA for Child Protection (CP) programming through various pilot projects.
Research was commissioned in four countries in 2022-23 to generate evidence and learning to inform the design of future programming but also to design a robust...
Cash and Vouchers Assistance (CVA) and Child Protection: Summary of practice and evidence from Save the Children programmes 2023 Edition
Report
In an effort to increase global knowledge and learning, Save the Children conducted a global review of twenty Country Offices and their programs in order to assess and highlight the impact that different forms of Cash and Vouchers Assistance (CVA) have on Child Protection (CP) outcomes, to identify...
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) for Children Associated with Armed Groups and Armed Forces (CAAFAG): Program Summary and Evidence-Building Infographic: A case study from Save the Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Report
This infographic gathers key programmatic data from Save the Children CVA operations in the DRC (South Kivu) between October 2022 and October 2023, which aimed to assess and highlight the impact that CVA has on child protection outcomes, with a specific focus on children associated with armed...