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Why you need a plan A, B and C: Using cash in hard-to-reach contexts
Blog Post
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) can be a valuable response choice in hard-to-reach areas, but it must be properly adapted to context with sufficient investment given to preparedness. Mirko Tommasi explains how preparing multiple plans, being flexible and ready to change plans fast and frequently is crucial for success in challenging contexts.
CVA for people on the move: Time for a new vision?
Webinar recording
This event presented the main findings of our recently released study People are on the move: Can the world of CVA keep up? Analysis of the use of CVA in the context of human mobility in the Americas. Additionally, invited guests discussed key issues on facing the topic of human mobility and CVA and answered questions from the audience. The event included two videos’ interventions: one...
Changes to US and UN economic sanctions may simplify CVA implementation
Blog Post
Recent changes to the UN and US economic sanctions regimes promise to improve cash transfer process across international borders, but changes might not be as quick or comprehensive as we would hope. We put eight questions to Rory Crew, who has looked into the matter for you.
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Cash Barometer Nigeria
Case Study
After more than a decade of conflict and violent insurgency by the non-state armed group Boko Haram, some 7.9 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states (collectively known as the BAY states) were expected to be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2020. Since the onset of Covid-19,...
Présentation du rapport sur la situation mondiale des Transferts Monétaires dans le monde en 2020
Webinar
BIEP program 2020-2021 launch workshop
Training
Desk-based Review on Cash and Voucher Assistance in Education in Emergencies
Report
In 2018, the Global Education Cluster documented practices in CVA for education in emergencies (EiE). Within this framework, this Desk Review is the first part of a larger study finalized with the publication in February 2019 of the CVA for EiE Synthesis and Guidelines. The Desk Review provides the reader...
Cameroon: Country mapping – large scale cash transfers for COVID-19 response
Report
A rapid exploratory review aiming to identify recommendations for strengthening linkages between humanitarian cash and voucher assistance and national social protection mechanisms.
Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 in Nigeria Using The Household Economy Analysis Framework
Report
Analysis of impact of COVID-19 on household food and income sources.
Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 in Mauritania Using the Household Economy Analysis Framework
Report
Analysis of Impacts of COVID-19 on household income and food security.
Stepping up CVA with COVID-19: Paving the way we respond to future crisis
Report
COVID-19 has thrown the world into lockdown and taken a tremendous toll on the health, social, and economic status of vulnerable communities, households, and individuals. Limitations on daily activities and an over-arching health crisis, restrictions on movement, closures of schools and businesses have...
Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 in Chad Using the Household Economy Analysis Framework
Report
Analysis of COVID-19 impacts on household income and food security.
Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis: Linking humanitarian Cash and Social Protection in practise
Report
This paper seeks to demonstrate practical ways in which NGOs are linking their humanitarian work to social protection and the added importance of this in the context of COVID-19, following from the earlier work of CCD outlining the role of NGOs to
improve the access to and delivery of social protection in...
Presentation for the CALP Network’s webinar on remote registration and verification in the COVID-19 response
Presentation
Watch the webinar recording here Speaker presentations from the CALP Network’s 14 July 2020 webinar on: Peril or pitfalls?: Emerging practices on remote registration and verification in the COVID-19 response Remote CVA programming has been highlighted as a key challenge for the community of practice in...
A Call for Action: Increase the Uptake of Cash Transfers to Ensure Rapid Response in case of Shocks
Guidelines and Tools
Despite a growing global interest in cash and voucher assistance since the beginning of the pandemic, the modality is still insufficiently used to limit the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis in West and Central Africa, both by governments and humanitarian actors. This call to action, developed...
Busting myths and addressing assumptions against CVA in the region in the COVID context
Guidelines and Tools
Protocol for the Prevention and Control of Infections in the Context of the COVID19 Pandemic
Guidelines and Tools
Readiness Checklist for Cash Working Groups in light of COVID-19 Response – Version 2
Guidelines and Tools
This checklist is designed to assist CWGs adjust their plans and prepare to play an enhanced role in coordination of CVA in the context of increasing (and in some cases unprecedented) needs and limitations of COVID-19. Responses should, as ever, be context specific. We suggest that CWGs consider the...
Humanitarian Impacts of COVID-19 in West and Central Africa
Policy paper
Produced by the Regional Inter Sector Coordination Group for Humanitarian Affairs in West and Central Africa (R-ISCG), this document summarizes the main impacts of COVID-19 on the population of the region and on ongoing humanitarian operations. The R-ISCG also wishes to put forward some key...
Public health and social measures for Covid19 prepardness and response in low capcity and humanitarian context
Guidelines and Tools
Case Study: Documentation of experiences using CVA for nutrition outcomes in Nigeria
Case Study
This case study was conducted as part of the wider initiative to develop guidance on the use of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) for nutrition outcomes. The case study reflects experiences and lessons learned in the context of Nigeria. It further explores opportunities to improve the nutrition...
Humanitarian Impact of Covid-19 in West and Central Africa
Policy paper
Produced by the Regional Inter-Sector Coordination Group for Humanitarian Affairs in West and Central Africa (R-ISCG), this document summarises the main impacts of Covid-19 on the population of the region and on ongoing humanitarian operations. The R-ISCG also wishes to put forward some key...
Connecting Humanitarian CVA with Government Social Safety Nets
Guidelines and Tools
The objectives of this document elaborated by the regional platform for Social Protection is to : Help actors at national level locate and analyse their countries in terms of context and systems; Identify key aspects to consider and guide national actors towards resources and tools; Support national...
