Asia y el Pacífico
La CALP Network ofrece coordinación y apoyo técnico y de políticas a las organizaciones que aplican o se plantean aplicar programas de transferencias monetarias en la región de Asia y el Pacífico. La oficina regional de la CALP Network está en Acción contra el Hambre, en Manila (Filipinas).
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Impossible Choices – questioning assumptions behind lock-down in low income and fragile contexts
Blog Post
“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 elsewhere on what the COVID pandemic means for cash and voucher assistance (CVA). The...
The CALP Network-Asia Pacific Regional Cash Working Group learning event report
Report
On 20-22 May, 27 cash working group (CWG) coordinators and regional technical focal points convened from Afghanistan, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Pacific region, the Philippines and Vietnam to share experiences and strengthen coordination between country, regional and global levels. The objectives of the event were to: 1) Share experiences and identify solutions around...
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Digital identity, biometrics and inclusion in humanitarian responses to refugee crises
Report
Digital identity and biometrics have long been divisive topics in the humanitarian sector. On the one hand, they have the potential to be more inclusive and reach people in need at scale due to perceived efficiency gains. A legal identity for everyone as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
Cost-efficiency Analysis: Conditional cash for education and protection
Case Study
This case study summarizes an analysis conducted by CARE using the Dioptra tool to generate cost-efficiency estimates for Conditional Cash for Education and Protection in Jordan. The analysis revealed that: Conditional Cash for Education and Protection cost $1,474 per child on average, across nine...
UN Common Cash Statement Progress Report – September 2021
Report
This report outlines key progress and challenges under the UN Common Cash Statement (UNCCS) and the vision and priorities ahead. It builds on more than two years of implementation, the UNCCS Q&A and a number
of surveys and lessons learned workshops conducted with countries in 2021. While the focus has...
Strengthening locally led humanitarian action through cash preparedness
Report
This research, produced by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s Cash Hub and CashCap, looks at the links between CVA and localisation to understand how cash, and cash preparedness, can help to further localisation and strengthen locally led humanitarian action. It examines three questions: 1) How...
Cash Assistance for Female Sex Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Indonesia
Report
The COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacted sex workers in Indonesia: their incomes decreased dramatically, they encountered greater difficulty accessing healthcare, and many of them could not access the government cash assistance that was set up to help Indonesians during the pandemic. This CVA pilot provided...
Vouchers for Fresh Food and Uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Pregnant Women: Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh
Report
UNFPA found that facility-based deliveries by women in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar were low (35%), which is linked to increased maternal mortality. In addition, undernourishment among pregnant women in this community increased their risk of poor pregnancy outcomes such as obstructed labor and...
Disability Inclusive Cash Assistance: Learnings from Practice in Humanitarian Response
Guidelines and Tools
This case study collection describes lessons learned from seven inclusive humanitarian cash transfer projects implemented from 2015 – 2020 in Niger, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, and Indonesia, and five ongoing projects from the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic responses. This good practice...
A Gendered Analysis on Cash for Work Programming in Hudayda
Case Study
The Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) funded Cash for Work programme in Yemen focuses on the Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) and WASH sectors to build upon Islamic Relief Yemen’s previous programming and work with local communities in the targeted areas of Hudayda and Lahj. This study...
The Receipt
Report
Save the Children Australia: Pacific Cash Preparedness and Response Program
SHARE SPACE Do child grants lead to increased pregnancies? An evidence view from Asia and the Pacific
Policy paper
Despite strong evidence showing that broad-based cash transfers targeting pregnant women and young children reduce poverty, improve health, nutrition and education and increase economic growth, concerns are often raised among policymakers that these payments may increase incentives to have children, in...
Transfers with Impact – Pathway to Link Humanitarian Cash to Social Protection through Social Accountability
Policy paper
In response to the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, governments have introduced over 1,600 social protection measures in almost all the world’s countries and territories. Cash assistance – a critical intervention in supporting the world’s most vulnerable people – also grew by 240% during...
Programas de Transferencias Monetarias en Respuesta a la Pandemia de COVID-19 Lecciones Aprendidas de un Programa CARE Para varios Países
Informe
CARE implementó un programa en varios países, con el objetivo de reducir los impactos negativos del COVID-19 en las poblaciones vulnerables, especialmente en las mujeres y las niñas, utilizando enfoques complementarios y multimodales, incluyendo la provisión de asistencia en efectivo y con vales...
CVA for Child Protection Outcomes: Case study from Cambodia
Video
Save the Children Cambodia and seven partner organizations are working to improve households’ ability to care for their children and achieve positive child protection outcomes. With support from USAID Cambodia and European Union in Cambodia, FCF|REACT is providing monthly cash transfers and supporting...
Facilitadores y brechas: Igualdad de Género, Respuesta y Mitigación de Violencia de Género en los Programas de Transferencias Monetarias a nivel de respuesta: análisis sobre tres estudios de caso
Informe
Lograr integrar género y el Programa de Transferencias Monetarias (PTM) fue establecido como una acción prioritaria para el Grupo de Trabajo de PTM- Gran Pacto en 2018. Aunque los proyectos con PTM son típicamente implementados por actores o consorcios humanitarios, hay oportunidades para crear...
Cash and Voucher Programming in COVID-19, Lessons Learnt from Asia Pacific
Report
COVID-19 has left an indelible adverse impact on all aspects of life not just health but also on livelihood, food security, protection, and many others. After the WHO declared a global pandemic in March 2020, World Vision mindfully scaled up its response to support most vulnerable households through...
Enablers and Gaps: Gender Equality, Gender-Based Violence Response and Mitigation in Cash and Voucher Assistance at Response levels: analysis on three case studies
Report
The Gender and Cash Sub-Workstream identified three case studies that illustrate how Cash Working Groups, GBV Sub-Clusters, gender focal points (e.g. Gender in Humanitarian Action Working groups at country and regional level) and humanitarian partnerships can enable meaningful and wider engagement on...
CVA for Health Outcomes: Learnings from Jordan, Burkina Faso and Bangladesh
Webinar recording
How can Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) support the goal of improved health outcomes in conditions of extreme poverty and vulnerability? During this webinar, we shared learning from three programmes that used cash and vouchers to improve access to and utilization of health services. This...
Cupones de salud y nutrición para la población urbana en situación de exclusión y pobreza extrema en Bangladesh
Informe
En Bangladesh, las personas en situación de pobreza en contextos urbanos se enfrentan a necesidades médicas de carácter complejo, incluida la elevada prevalencia de enfermedades no transmisibles, junto a un acceso insuficiente a servicios de salud y unos altos gastos médicos por cuenta propia. Las...
Brief: Towards shock-responsive social protection: lessons from the COVID-19 response in Pakistan
Policy paper
This policy brief draws on key learnings from the Pakistan research report and microsimulation report on the social protection responses to COVID-19. The brief provides analysis of the factors that enabled and constrained the effectiveness of the delivery of social protection in Pakistan and also provides...
Towards shock-responsive social protection: lessons from the COVID-19 response in Bangladesh – Policy brief
Policy paper
This policy brief presents the key findings of the Bangladesh country report, exploring the social protection response to COVID-19 from the Government of Bangladesh. Considering factors that have both helped and hindered the effectiveness of policy responses at various levels, the brief presents...