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Cash and Voucher Assistance: Breaking down barriers to SRH care in humanitarian settings
Case Study
Global commitments to universal health coverage mean that all people should have access to a full range of quality health services without financial hardship. Despite these commitments, populations affected by emergencies often face heightened barriers to accessing health services due to disruptions to...
Calculating the GHG Footprint of Food Aid using Cash Transfers
Case Study
In early 2021, Action Against Hunger (ACF) France is launching a GHG emissions assessment with other members of the Humanitarian Environment Network (REH). The scope of accounting target all emissions, and very quickly some activities, which can generate considerable variability in the results, are...
Calcul de l’empreinte GES de Paniers de Dépenses Minimum
Case Study
Début 2021, Action contre la Faim (ACF) France a lancé une évaluation des émissions de GES avec d’autres membres du Réseau Environnement Humanitaire (REH). La portée de la comptabilisation cible toutes les émissions, et très rapidement certaines activités, pouvant générer une variabilité...
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...
Cash and Voucher Assistance – Feasibility Study
Case Study
The feasibility study aims to understand the general CVA landscapes in Nepal and its feasibility. Since the earthquake response in Nepal in 2015, cash and voucher assistance has increasingly become popular as a modality of assistance in emergencies, especially during COVID-19. The study was conducted in...
Flood Response Multi-purpose Cash, Delivered through Leveraging Nepal’s Social Security Allowance Programme: A case study of shock-responsive social protection in practice: October 2021, western Nepal floods
Case Study
This case study documents the actions of the Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), with support from the Danish Red Cross (DRC) and in collaboration with local government, in response to the October 2021 floods in Kailali District, Nepal. Specifically, the content describes NRCS’ multi-purpose cash (MPC)...
Anticipatory action and cash transfers for rapid onset hazards: Practitioners note for field testing
Report
This report is a collaboration between Asia-Pacific Regional Cash Working Group (RCWG) and Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action (TWGAA) who have joined forces to understand cash’s relationship with anticipatory action and come up with initial answers. Findings in this study reveal...
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in COVID-19 context: Case studies from Nepal
Case Study
With the first and second surge of COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal, followed by lockdown with mobility restrictions imposed by the government to reduce the spread of the virus, most vulnerable people witnessed impacts on their lives and livelihoods-affecting food security, health and nutrition, and education,...
Stepping up CVA with COVID-19: Paving the way we respond to future crisis
Report
COVID-19 has thrown the world into lockdown and taken a tremendous toll on the health, social, and economic status of vulnerable communities, households, and individuals. Limitations on daily activities and an over-arching health crisis, restrictions on movement, closures of schools and businesses have...
Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis: Linking humanitarian Cash and Social Protection in practise
Report
This paper seeks to demonstrate practical ways in which NGOs are linking their humanitarian work to social protection and the added importance of this in the context of COVID-19, following from the earlier work of CCD outlining the role of NGOs to
improve the access to and delivery of social protection in...
Partnering with FSPs to Deliver Cash in Nepal: Top Considerations
Guidelines and Tools
Cash transfers are a proven way to help disaster-affected communities flexibly meet urgent basic needs. Several humanitarian agencies are planning cash transfers to support tens of thousands of Nepali earthquake survivors. While initial responses will likely rely on direct cash in envelopes, cash...
Scaling Up Humanitarian Cash Transfers in Nepal
Case Study
The Nepal earthquake has a number of lessons for the global debates on scaling up cash both at the level of cash responses themselves and in the more transformational way envisaged by the High Level Panel through which cash can disrupt the established humanitarian system. Humanitarian cash transfers after...
Lessons Learned for Nepal Earthquake Response
Report
The aim of this product is to improve the performance of humanitarian actors in the response of the Nepal earthquake, assist agencies working in the response and encourage positive action by decision makers. The lessons learned, stated in this document, have been a product of the analysis of main findings...
Cash Transfer Actors in Nepal – NRCS Mapping Exercise
Report
Each year Nepal faces a series of natural disasters, including floods, landslides and food insecurity, causing immense hardship and challenges to communities in the affected districts. The Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS) as the auxiliary to the government is first responder to the needs of the affected...
Annex 9: Sample Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Report
Included here are SOPs from two Mercy Corps e-transfer programs. The first are from TabangKO, Mercy Corps Philippines’ mobile money cash transfer program that reached 25,000 participants affected by Typhoon Haiyan. The second set of SOPs (starting on page 8) are from a e-voucher pilot program in Nepal.
Strategies and Options for Scaling Up and Enhancing the Child Grant Nationally in Nepal
Policy paper
The objective of this study is to offer to the Government of Nepal (GoN) a set of reflections and options regarding the continuation, scale-up and enhancement of the Child Grant (CG), a cash transfer program for children under the age of 5 introduced by the GoN in 2009. While the original intention was to...
Business Guide – Flash appeal for response to the Nepal earthquake
Policy paper
An overview of the main humanitarian issues facing Nepal following the 2015 Earthquake, as well as indicators as to how businesses can assist with disaster response.
Nepal Earthquake Response: Lessons for operational agencies
Policy paper
In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, this paper looks at lessons drawn from previous comparable disasters and seeks to provide invaluable information and assistance to the operational agencies responding to the crisis. Seventeen Lessons give an overview of important learnings based on...
The Road to Recovery Cash Transfers as an Emergency Response to Nepal’s Earthquake of 2015 and a Catalyst for Consolidating Nepal’s Social Protection Floor
Report
On 27 May, the Nepal Ministry of Finance issued a decision: “Approval of top up cash transfer for early recovery for vulnerable population affected by the Earthquake”. This marks the beginning of a crucial intervention. Proposed interventions: This paper outlines a proposal to address the economic...
Voices and Views of Beneficiaries on Unconditional Cash Transfers – Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal and the Philippines
Report
Providing cash in humanitarian emergencies is expanding and the topic is well under discussion within the humanitarian sector with topics ranging from high-level consideration of cash as a tool to transform humanitarian aid, the significance of cash as a way to support beneficiary choice and dignity...
