Episode 3.4: Money Matters! Funding for CVA
This episode features insights from:
- Irfan Khan: Director of Humanitarian and International Partnerships at Muslim Hands
- Dr. Kathryn Taetzsch: World Vision International’s Senior Director, Global Humanitarian and Development Capacity and Capabilities
- Oliver May: Consultant on risk in the humanitarian and development sector
- Sindhy Obias: Executive Director of the Assistance and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development (ACCORD)
Key themes explored in this episode:
- The tendency to blame donors for a lack of change.
- The possibility of driving initial changes without substantial funding, but how funding is needed for scale-up.
- The vulnerability of cash programmes to funding cuts, despite their efficiency.
- The need to recognize both individual givers as well as institutional donors and take them along in the change process.
- The challenges faced by local and national organizations in accessing funding for institutional development.
- The challenges of compliance requirements, which often feel feel excessive rather than a reasonable level of accountability.
Tune into this episode to hear diverse perspectives on the multifaceted relationship between funding, change, and the expansion of CVA in the humanitarian sector.
CashCast is an occasional podcast from the CALP Network that looks in depth at the critical debates in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA).
Host
Karen Peachey
Karen worked with CALP from early 2017 through to August 2024. She has worked in both development and humanitarian contexts since the 1990s. Among many other things, Karen has a keen interest in networks, the power of collective action, and how systems change happens. She recorded this series before leaving CALP.
Featured Guests
Irfan Khan
He is an experienced professional in the international development and humanitarian aid sector, with over 20 years of experience. He has worked in various roles from the field level to his current position as Director of Humanitarian and International Partnerships at Muslim Hands. Irfan has a Master’s degree in International Development Studies from London South Bank University, UK.
Dr. Kathryn Taetzsch
Kathryn has over 25 years of strategic and operational humanitarian response and academic research experience in fragile, conflict- and natural disaster-affected contexts in Africa, Asia, and Middle East, Eastern Europe (Ukraine Crisis, Iraq Response), and Latin America (e.g. West Africa Ebola response, South Sudan/ Uganda Refugees, Iraq IDPs and Syrian Refugees, Darfur crisis response, Indonesia IDPs, Hurricane response in central America, El-Nino disaster preparedness & response, etc). She is currently World Vision International’s Snr. Director, Global Humanitarian and Development Capacity and Capabilities.
Oliver May
Oliver May is a specialist consultant on risk in the humanitarian and development sector. He is passionate about locally-led, pragmatic and collaborative risk management. He was formerly the head of Deloitte’s international development practice, Oxfam’s head of counter-fraud, and an officer in what is now the UK’s National Crime Agency. Oliver is the author of two books supporting aid agencies to manage fraud and counterterrorism risk.
Sindhy Obias
She is a humanitarian and development worker who currently serves as the Executive Director of the Assistance and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development (ACCORD), a Philippine non-government organization. She has 21 years of experience in community-based humanitarian and development work, with extensive involvement in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of both Integrated Risk Management programs and humanitarian response actions in the Philippines. Throughout her career, Ms. Obias has collaborated closely with communities, educational institutions, local and national government agencies, and civil society organizations.
