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UNFPA Guidance: How to Design and Set Up Cash Assistance in GBV Case Management
Guidelines and Tools
Provisions on when and how to use cash assistance as a tool in GBV case management need to be carefully considered in order to mitigate any associated risks and avoid negative unintended consequences of cash assistance. As such, this UNFPA Guidance has the purpose of guiding and supporting GBV and cash...
Coordinating with the Petrol Sector to Enhance Early Warning
Case Study
For far too long humanitarian actors and coordination mechanisms have witnessed sharp price variations of core commodities without the capacity to forecast them. While to date some Cash and Vouchers Working Groups (e.g., Afghanistan) establish mechanisms to continue monitoring and adapt transfer values in...
How are humanitarians using AI tools like Chat GPT?
Blog Post
We asked nine of our LinkedIn followers how they used Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for humanitarian purposes. The range of uses was remarkable to say the least....
Ukraine: Unlocking a more effective humanitarian response (Webinar recording)
Webinar recording
Ukraine has rapidly become one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises as a result of the Russian invasion in February 2022. Millions remain displaced within Ukraine and other countries and many communities have been devastated by the conflict. Cash transfers have been prioritised as the main form...
Musical Money Messages – Mobile Innovation from Mercy Corps
Blog Post
We don’t usually put music, quizzes and voice messages in the same category as effective humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA). So, our interest was piqued when Mercy Corps won USAID’s ‘2022 Digital Development Award’ for a human-centered program which used songs, games, and quizzes sent...
Ukraine: Unlocking a more effective humanitarian response (Presentation)
Presentation
This slide deck was used in the 8 February 2023 webinar organised by CALP, Ground Truth Solutions and Humanitarian Outcomes title: “Ukraine: Unlocking a more effective humanitarian response”. Agenda Brief presentations Key findings from Ground Truth Solutions, Marina Key findings from the Ukraine...
Key principles and recommendations for inclusive cash and voucher assistance
Guidelines and Tools
This technical brief is intended to provide general guidance for humanitarian agencies to implement Disability Inclusive Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA), mainstreaming disability in the intervention in line with the CRPD and with the “must do” action listed in the IASC guidelines on inclusion of...
Cash Transfers and Digital Financial Inclusion: Regional evidence from the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Nepal
Case Study
The study examines the barriers and opportunities to strengthening digital financial inclusion for cash transfer recipients in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Bangladesh, Cambodia and Nepal. Specifically, it maps the existing evidence on the landscape of digital financial inclusion and cash...
How to mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) risks in cash and voucher assistance (CVA)
Video
Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is an important tool to help individuals affected by crises get back on their feet. But just like any other form of assistance, it is vital to ensure that it does not fuel tensions in the household or in the community and that it does not create new risks for women and...
Call for Communication, Collaboration, and Cash: Perceptions of aid in Ukraine
Case Study
People in Ukraine have relatively low expectations of how aid should be provided, potentially because most people in Ukraine, except people living in eastern Ukraine, had little experience with humanitarian aid before the full-scale February 2022 invasion. Qualitative enquiry helped us understand better...
Minutes Of West and Central Africa Cash Working Groups Leads & Co-Leads Groups (CWGs) Meeting
Meeting minutes
From February 1-3, 2023, the meeting of leads and co-leads of the Cash Working Groups (CWGs) of West and Central Africa was held in Dakar, Senegal. The meeting is part of the support provided by the Regional CWG and CALP Network to the national CWGs in the region. It was co-organized by CALP and the...
Between efficiency and do no harm: Blockchain-based innovation in cash and voucher assistance
Report
The focus of this study is the determination of the risk factors for beneficiaries that arise from the use of blockchain technology in the delivery of cash and voucher assistance (CVA), as part of a framework for the identification of digital harm. The study also aims to use the said framework to create...
Role of civil society organisations in Ukraine
Report
Цей документ можливо побачити українською мовою This is the third and final paper in a 3-thematic papers collection. It focuses on the role of civil society organisations in Ukraine with recommendations and key findings on: partnership, coordination funding and...
Pacific Regional Cash Working Group (PRCWG): Quarterly meeting
Report
Agenda/ Minutes of Meeting on the Quarterly Meeting (26 January 2023) of the Pacific Regional Cash Working Group (PRCWG).
Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance vs Foster Care, Disability and Other Protection Considerations in Multi-stakeholder Environment, Ukraine Refugee Response in Poland
Case Study
This short research paper on strategic linkages between localized cash response, protection and social protection in Poland offers medium dive into the subject matter. The methodology involved both desk-based analysis, visits and interviews as part of a qualitative survey focused on the response in the...
Evidence and practice review of the use of cash transfers in contexts of acute food insecurity
Report
Commissioned by the Global Food Security Cluster Cash and Market Working Group, this piece of operational looks at the use of cash transfers in contexts of extreme food insecurity. With interviews collected with partners in Syria, Nigeria and Somalia it seeks to highlight and understand lessons learned...
Evidence and Practice Review of the Use of Cash Transfers in Contexts of Acute Food Insecurity
Report
The Global Food Security Cluster (GFSC) commissioned an operational research to explore the untapped and/or underused potential of cash transfers, and strengthen evidence of the use of cash transfers for food security outcomes in contexts of acute food insecurity (IPC/Cadre Harmonisé (CH) Phase 3-5, or...
Minutes and recording from the WCAF regional CWG – 18 January 2023
Meeting minutes
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.
Community based targeting: The ‘best-worst’ thing for limited humanitarian resources?
Blog Post
A recent blog by Development Pathways argued that Community Based Targeting (CBT) posed a risk to social stability. Whilst acknowledging the risks, the article below asserts that transitioning from CBT is not immediately possible, and in that light, provides a checklist and additional resources for...