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Evidence review on the use of cash transfers in contexts of acute food insecurity
Ongoing research
There is still a gap in evidence around the impact and usage of cash transfers in contexts of acute food insecurity and the benefits of using cash based approaches either alongside or instead of in-kind assistance to mitigate a higher IPC projection, where markets are functioning and accessible to...
Providing Entrepreneurship Training and Cash Business Grants to Venezuelan Migrants in Peru
Ongoing research
More than 20,000 individuals across households who receive SC’s emergency cash support will be offered entrepreneurship training and grants. SC will randomly assign 2,700 individuals amongst those who expressed an interest to receive business trainings. Upon completion of these trainings, SC will invite...
‘Haddi’ (Next to me): An Integrated Child Grant Programme in Lebanon
Ongoing research
The cash grant aims to support households to better cope with the socioeconomic shocks, limit cuts in spending on children, and stem the rise in negative-coping strategies. The short-term goal is to increase monthly expenditure, especially on children’s health and education, while the medium to long...
Sistematización de Grupos de Trabajo de Transferencias Monetarias: una revisión de los mecanismos de coordinación con los sistemas de protección social
Ongoing research
El principal objetivo de esta investigación es recopilar el aprendizaje hasta la fecha de los Grupos de Transferencias Monetarias (GTM) sobre los mecanismos de coordinación entre los sistemas nacionales o subnacionales de protección social y los GTM locales (o foros similares entre los actores que...
Cash and Voucher Assistance with Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of practice
Ongoing research
Based on consultations with Cash Working Group leads and co-leads in LAC, the intersection of CVA and migration is considerable topic of interest across a number of contexts. Considering the global trends on humanitarian crises focusing on displaced populations, a report is likely to be of interest...
PTM con migrantes en América Latina y el Caribe: una revisión de la práctica
Ongoing research
Basado en consultas con líderes y co-líderes del Grupo de Trabajo de Transferencias Monetarias (GTM) en ALC, la intersección de los PTM y la migración es un tema considerable de interés en una serie de contextos. Teniendo en cuenta las tendencias mundiales sobre las crisis humanitarias centradas en...
Real-time Learning on Cash-Preparedness within the 2022 Horn of Africa Drought Response
Ongoing research
The study, to be released on 12 October 2022, aims to elucidate what it takes to be effectively prepared for drought response using cash and voucher modalities and facilitate the incorporation of lessons from previous drought crises into the current response. The study is to be undertaken in a way that...
Scaling the use of CVA
Ongoing research
The growth of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is regarded as one of the few drivers of change within the humanitarian system. Humanitarian stakeholders committed to ensuring the routine use of cash under the 2016 Grand Bargain framework. Despite sustained increases in the use of CVA since...
Review of CVA policy positions across the humanitarian system
Ongoing research
The CALP Network is commissioning research to gather an overview of current and evolving commitments of key stakeholders, to understand where individual organisational commitments align, explore differences, highlight gaps, and establish where new collective commitments could help drive forward further...
Cash Transfers for Refugees Scale-Up: Randomised Control Trial in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp, Uganda
Ongoing research
The results of the robust external impact evaluation will fill the evidence gap for use of large lump-sum cash transfers in protracted refugee settings, and conditional on the efficacy of the intervention, will assist future decision-making about cash programs by donors and implementing organisations,...