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Somali Capacities to Respond to Crisis are Changing; How are humanitarian actors responding?
Report
Somalia’s most recent humanitarian crisis (2022–23) was severe, with an unprecedented series of failed rainy seasons leading to widespread suffering and significant excess mortality. The drivers of the near-famine – drought, conflict, and fragile governance – were largely similar to previous...
LEGS Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA)
Guidelines and Tools
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) Handbook is a guide for implementing livestock-based livelihood interventions in emergency situations and is used by humanitarian agencies, governments, donors and academic institutions to design, implement, monitor and evaluate these emergency...
Unified Cash+ Framework of Bangladesh: For anticipatory action and response
Report
This document presents a proposal for a harmonised inter-sectoral approach to cash+ (cash and other forms of support) in anticipation of rapid onset hazard events as well as the response phase. The formulations are based on the HCTT pre-crisis survey conducted in June 2023 and the workshop on the 22nd of...
East and Southern Africa Regional Cash Working Group Leads and Co-leads Workshop Report
Report
The CALP Network (CALP) organized a workshop for the Cash Working Group (CWG) Leads and Co-leads on May 17th-18th, 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. This two-day, in-person annual workshop aimed to foster peer-to-peer learning among CWG Leads and Co-leads within the East and Southern Africa Region. A total of 18...
Pre-crisis Assessment of Monsoon Flooding in Bangladesh
Report
Shifting the focus from response to anticipation of monsoon floods, the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator (RCO) and Humanitarian Coordination Task Team (HCTT) with support from NORCAP/CashCap implemented a pre-crisis survey to understand at-risk people’s perceptions and preparations for monsoon...
CVA Update: Emergencies in Libya and Morocco
Blog Post
Amidst recent natural disasters in Morocco and Libya, we interview Rana Nassar, CALP’s Regional Representative in the Middle East and North Africa region, to understand the challenges and responses in these crisis-stricken regions.
Rethinking vulnerability, fairness, and CVA targeting – what if we let people decide?
Blog Post
While it is common practice to ask people affected by crisis whether they prefer cash assistance, in-kind, or another aid modality, people are rarely consulted when it comes to aid duration, coverage, or transfer value. This blog argues that engaging with affected communities on these issues could allow...
Cash on the Move – Lessons Learnt from the Ukraine Regional Response
Case Study
This report focuses on key programmatic and operational lessons learnt from SC’s Ukraine regional response in the use of CVA as a tool to provide assistance to populations on the move. It is organized around key enablers, challenges and recommendation during start up, implementation and monitoring of...
Ukraine Regional Response – Save the Children CVA Infographic
Report
This infographic gathers key programmatic data from Save the Children CVA operations in the Ukraine response, between February 2022 and September 2023. It highlights key programmatic design aspects (including transfer values and targeting approaches) and also illustrates the impact of CVA on multiple...
Cash For Protection Global Workshop Report
Report
The aim of the C4P workshop was to bring together practitioners across different organisations and agencies working in cash and protection to share existing policies and practices, promote a joint understanding of what “cash for protection” entails, and outline minimum requirements and key approaches...
Ukraine Regional Response – CVA Technical Notes
Case Study
These technical notes provide a deep dive into some technical approaches or methodologies used by Save the Children’s teams as part of the Ukraine Regional response. Topics include targeting methodologies in contexts of evacuation and shelling, approaches to complement social protection schemes, use of...
Mapping a Route-Based Approach to CVA: Feasibility in select contexts in the Americas
Report
This research looks at the feasibility of a route-based approach to CVA in the Americas, presenting its potential through three perspectives: people on the move, humanitarian organizations, and financial service providers (FSP).
Four Reasons to Use a Route-Based Approach to Cash and Voucher Assistance
Blog Post
With human mobility being a fact of most humanitarian crises, is it time to change from a country to a route-based approach? With four key points, Holly Welcome Radice argues the time for a route-based approach has arrived.
Guidance Note on the Cash and Voucher Assistance Coordination and Reporting
Guidelines and Tools
The objective of this guidance note is: (1) Inform about the CBI TWG about the MPCA and its coordination; (2) Inform about reporting tools for MPCA and sectoral cash activities.
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:
Uneven Market Speeds: Exploring the potential for cash programming after the earthquake
Report
The Kahramanmaraş earthquake had a devastating impact on Türkiye’s South-East Anatolia region. In an area within Türkiye already reported as economically vulnerable, the earthquake severely impacted people’s livelihoods, as well as the resilience of markets through the destruction of essential...
Myan Ku Final Evaluation Report
Report
The Nexus Response Mechanism (NRM), in partnership with sequa gGmbH and Wave Money, and with funding from the European Union, set up the Myan Ku Workers Support Fund in April 2020. The project was created in response to garment factory closures in Myanmar caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, the...
What’s Next for Cash: Mercy Corps’ approach to cash and voucher assistance
Presentation
The brief outlines Mercy Corps' CVA approach & standards applied across our CVA portfolio and sets the direction for CVA in Mercy Corps moving forward.
The approach outlines how CVA contributes to Mercy Corps Pathway to Possibility strategy by focusing on areas that drive impact & sector leadership,...
Cash Transfers Programs and Human Mobility: Sharing experiences, debates, and learnings
Report
Cash Transfers have been one of the commitments of the Grand Bargain in which significant progress has been made. It should be noted that the challenges posed by different humanitarian contexts also oblige us to improve and revise these modalities of assistance in complex situations. The large flows of...
Operational Alignment of Humanitarian Cash Programming with Ukraine’s Social Protection System
Report
This paper explores the extent to which humanitarian Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) in Ukraine has been able to leverage different elements of the delivery chain of national social protection (SP) programming. The basis of this paper is the framework developed by Seyfert et al., in their 2019...