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Targeting in Protracted Crises: Nigeria case study
Case Study
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
Case Study
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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Exploring linkages between Cash and Voucher Assistance and Social Protection in West and Central Africa
Webinar recording
This is the first in a series of webinars that aims to explore the connections between humanitarian CVA and social protection in West and Central Africa region. The webinar sought to frame the discussion with opening remarks from Dr. Sintike Tarfa Ugbe, Director of Humanitarian & Social Affairs of the...
Webinar series: Exploring linkages between Cash and Voucher Assistance and Social Protection in West and Central Africa
Webinar
There was a lot of buzz on the need to link humanitarian assistance to social protection (SP) systems, especially during the COVID pandemic. The linkage should encompass various contexts from stable well-organised states, preferred context by development and social protection stakeholders, to conflict...
Cash and Voucher Assistance: Breaking down barriers to SRH care in humanitarian settings
Case Study
Global commitments to universal health coverage mean that all people should have access to a full range of quality health services without financial hardship. Despite these commitments, populations affected by emergencies often face heightened barriers to accessing health services due to disruptions to...
Payment Solution Seekers Webinar
Webinar recording
This webinar marked the launch of the Payment solutions for CVA implementers report; which helps implementing organizations, payment companies and regulators leverage FinTech innovations to increase the impact of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA).
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 17 of January 2024 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 presentations from the WCAF regional CWG
Meeting minutes
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – 17 January 2024 Watch the recording here:
Calculating the GHG Footprint of Food Aid using Cash Transfers
Case Study
In early 2021, Action Against Hunger (ACF) France is launching a GHG emissions assessment with other members of the Humanitarian Environment Network (REH). The scope of accounting target all emissions, and very quickly some activities, which can generate considerable variability in the results, are...
Understanding how Cash and Voucher Assistance Programs for Nutrition are Implemented: A review of programmatic case examples from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Colombia
Report
The purpose of this review was to identify and document case examples of programs in different countries and contexts that use cash, vouchers, or in-kind food assistance with nutrition activities to understand why and how these programs are implemented, and identify innovations that may inform and support...
No Transparency, no Trust: Community perceptions of humanitarian aid
Report
Ground Truth Solutions is supporting the humanitarian response in DRC to listen to
and act on the views of crisis-affected people. We do this through a combination of
quantitative and qualitative data collection, dialogue and advocacy with the diverse
stakeholders involved in response efforts.
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 8 of November 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 be: National...
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG
Publication
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – 8 November 2023 Watch the recording here:
WVI Cash Roadmap 2.0 – New Avenues – Leveraging, multiplying “Nexus” cash to take children and their families further than imagined
Policy paper
WVI's strategic global Cash Roadmap 2.0 (2024-2027) speaks to the organisations' commitment that amidst polycrises and resourcing constraints, there is urgency to maximise and multiply World Vision's capabilities, assets and cash voucher programming (CVP=CVA) is a powerful tool to do so.
Increasing...
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 6 September 2023, from 9am to 11am (GMT) face to face and online. (register here) The meeting will have simultaneous interpretation in English and French. The draft agenda for this meeting will...
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG
Meeting minutes
Minutes and presentations from the WCAF regional CWG – 6 September 2023 Watch the recording here:
Layering Cash Into Market Systems Programs: Catalyzing Market-Driven Recovery in Nigeria
Case Study
Mercy Corps has been implementing the USAID funded Feed the Future Nigeria Rural Resilience Activity (RRA), a market systems development (MSD) program, in Northeast Nigeria since 2019. In response to COVID-19, RRA layered on a short-term cash transfer activity to help households cope, jumpstart local...
“Men have the power to say everything, women don’t.” Women’s perceptions of cash and voucher assistance in Maiduguri’s outskirts
Case Study
In northeast Nigeria, women and girls constitute approximately two-thirds of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) recipients. However, stark gender inequalities in the region make it difficult to hear women’s perspectives. This study aims to amplify their voices and concerns to inform decision-making...
Acting Before Disaster Strikes: The impacts of anticipatory cash transfers on climate resilience in Northeast Nigeria
Case Study
IRC’s research – the first experimental evidence from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on how anticipatory cash compares to post-shock cash transfers in a conflict-affected environment – highlights that anticipatory action is critical to meeting the short- and longer-term needs of households...
Remote targeting approaches: global lessons and applications in West and Central Africa
Event
The Sahel region is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world, due to a combination of chronic underdevelopment, high demographic growth, high exposure to natural hazards, expanding conflicts, and climatic shocks, as well as chronic food insecurity and malnutrition. Challenging geographies,...
Onward Bound: Evaluating Cash and Voucher Assistance for Migrants on Sahel’s Migration Trail – Research and learnings from the Sahel region
Report
This research – a collaboration between the British Red Cross and Samuel Hall – provides evidence on the opportunities and challenges to integrate cash and vouchers assistance (CVA) as a support modality in migration programming in the context of transit migration in the Sahel. While CVA has become...
Calculating transfer values in West and Central Africa: With learnings from Cameroon and Niger
Event
You are invited to join us for a webinar exploring how we can better determine and use transfer value calculations in the region. We will share learnings from experiences in Cameroon and Niger.