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El Caribe está preparado para los programas de transferencias monetarias, pero ¿lo están los actores humanitarios?
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Hoy comienza la temporada de huracanes en el Caribe, en un contexto marcado por la respuesta sin precedentes a la pandemia de COVID-19. Durante el lanzamiento de la nota informativa de CALP Network Vientos de Cambio (sobre el uso de programas de transferencias monetarias en el Caribe), Andria Grosvenor,...
Global Remittances to Suffer a Blow From COVID-19
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The CALP Network’s Future of Financial Assistance report highlighted the importance for CVA actors of working with and alongside other financial flows, which often dwarf volumes of humanitarian aid in crisis contexts. Of these flows, remittances are a critical lifeline for many crisis-affected...
MPCA ‘Plus’ assistance to people on the move: the case of Venezuelans in Peru
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Watch the video here This video documents the MPCA ‘Plus’ program implemented by Save the Children Peru in response to the Venezuelan crisis, and more specifically highlights the provision of assistance to families on the move, or ‘transiting’ through Peru. Beneficiaries were identified throughout...
Migrating with dignity: MPCA to Venezuelan families in Peru
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Watch the video here In 2018, with the support of OFDA and FFP, Save the Children implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer ‘Plus’ program in response to the influx of Venezuelan into Peru. The program aimed at covering vulnerable household’s basic needs and prevent them from resorting to negative...
CVA for COVID-19: Listen to people and act on what they say
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Not everyone will be personally affected by the COVID-19 health crisis, but nearly every household will feel its effects economically. For many people in humanitarian crises, particularly those at the margins of society, the economic impact of COVID-19 will be greater and longer-lasting than the health...
CVA & COVID-19: Adapting Delivery Mechanisms
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As field practitioners adapt their programmes to COVID-19, colleagues across our membership and Cash Working Groups are identifying multiple challenges. The CALP Network is working with others to develop a series of short, field-focused recommendations for such practitioners. The purpose of this series is...
So COVID-19, there’s an app for that…
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In an earlier blog we explored the implications of COVID-19 adaptations in CVA response on an individuals’ right to privacy. We also argued that data portability in CVA could be explored as part of an opportunity to build back better. In this guest blog from Alesh Brown, founder at TrustWorks.io, we...
CVA response – COVID-19, privacy, carrots and open banking
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Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, there has been heightened interest in the use of technology for humanitarian assistance provision, both to help fight the spread of the pandemic through a plethora of tracing apps, and to help reach people who have been worst hit economically with remote registration...
COVID-19, sanctions, counterterrorist financing and CVA
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Are anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing or know your customer requirements hampering your ability to reach vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic? This is what we know so far. Do you have examples which can be used to influence policy? The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it...
El vínculo entre la protección social y los programas de transferencias monetarias en la acción humanitaria
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La importancia de la protección social para ayudar a las personas a hacer frente a las crisis nunca había sido tan evidente como en la crisis actual de COVID-19. Estas cuestiones se están materializando en tiempo real mientras los Gobiernos, donantes y organizaciones de ayuda se afanan por encontrar el...
The $90Bn Question: Can we reach 700 million people in response to COVID-19?
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As COVID-19 impacts on the health, livelihoods and wellbeing of people around the world, governments and societies are faced with impossible choices. The impacts on the world’s most vulnerable are starting to bite, with an estimated 130 million additional people facing acute food insecurity by the end...
COVID-19 and Cash Transfers in MENA: What’s Possible?
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Some of the most complex and protracted humanitarian crises in the world are in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. These crises were already suffering from funding shortfalls and worsening vulnerabilities. Now, like the rest of the world, people in MENA – both host and refugee/displaced...
Midiendo los Resultados de la Asistencia en Efectivo: Un reto y a la vez una necesidad
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Los programas de transferencias monetarias multipropósito en el punto de mira, también en tiempos del COVID-19. La fase de recogida de información para el Informe global sobre la situación de los Programas de Transferencias Monetarias (PTM), en su segunda edición, y cuya publicación está prevista...
Why is tracking CVA considered a challenge, and will applying minimum requirements help to make progress?
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How much humanitarian aid is delivered as cash and voucher assistance (CVA)? An innocent enough enquiry, which may not have quite opened Pandora’s box, but has released a few cans of worms. This is a very technical topic and has a lot to do with the complexities and limitations of organizational and...
La CALP Network Lanza Foro de Discusión en Español
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Nos complace informarles que la CALP Network ha lanzado un foro de discusión en español en la plataforma D-Groups con el propósito de proporcionar un espacio colaborativo para la comunidad de práctica en el entorno de los Programas de Transferencias Monetarias (PTM). The CALP Network ha gestionado con...
Impossible Choices – questioning assumptions behind lock-down in low income and fragile contexts
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“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...
COVID-19 and CVA: how are operational actors responding?
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“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 We don’t yet know exactly how the COVID-19 pandemic will be experienced by the world’s...
The CALP Network Glossary in Arabic: A common understanding and greater consistency
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The first version of the CALP Network Glossary of Terms was published in 2011. This aimed to encourage mutual understanding, and increase coordination and clarity when it comes to the terms and definitions used in the world of cash and voucher assistance (CVA). Since our work began in the MENA region,...
Cash Week 2019: How cash is driving change across the system
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Cash Week 2019 aimed to provide a space to reflect, learn, and look ahead, to ensure quality in our use of CVA at scale. The CALP team reflects on the key takeaways from the events that took place around the world, and what they mean for actors within and beyond the humanitarian sector.
A guide to Cash and Voucher Assistance at Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week
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Don’t miss any of the sessions on cash and voucher assistance during the Humanitarian Networks and Partnership Week, which takes place in Geneva from 3 to 7 February 2020. On Monday 3 February, dive into the week with a session from the CALP Network on the Future of Financial Assistance: Supporting...