UNHCR Cash Assistance and Covid 19: Emerging field practices

Guidelines and Tools

This document is a snapshot of the many innovative field practices emerging in light of COVID-19.
UNHCR preparedness and response to COVID-19 is comprehensive including cash assistance as quick and efficient means of getting assistance to people fast, empowering families to deal with the crisis and meet...

April 2020

The Case for Cash in Responding to Humanitarian Crises in Malawi

Policy paper

A policy paper by the Malawi INGO Cash Consortium which makes the case for cash assistance as a response modality to humanitarian crises. It gives a brief overview of global evidence for cash and previous cash experience in Malawi, and makes several key recommendations. One of these key recommendations is...

12 March 2020

East and Southern Africa Cash Working Group Leads meeting

Event

4 March 2020 / Nairobi / English

Cash Working Group Leads Meeting Report – March 2020

Report

The Cash Working Group leads/co-leads meeting is a forum intended to provide a space for reflection, peer learning and developing solutions to shared challenges. This year’s meeting agenda and content were guided by requests from and contributions by participants. This report summarizes the discussions...

March 2020

Mitigating Risks of Abuse of Power in Cash Assistance in Uganda

Report

This document outlines lessons learned from a joint UNHCR/WFP project in Uganda with the aim to identify and mitigate the risks of abuse of power in cash assistance through the main delivery mechanisms used in-country: mobile money, e-cards and cash delivered through mobile vans.

February 2020

Somalia Cash Working Group (CWG) 3W

Guidelines and Tools

Spreadsheet for tracking activities undertaken by the Somali Cash Working Group partners

2020

Somalia Cash Working Group (CWG) Monitoring Questionnaires

Guidelines and Tools

Baseline and Post-Distribution Monitoring questionnaires

2020

Delivering Cash Better: Three opportunities for improved programming

Event

3 December 2019 8:00 / Nairobi, Kenya / English

Cash Labelling: Does influencing how a cash transfer should be used matter?

Event

26 November 2019 14:00 / Nairobi / English

Le cas du Burundi : Comment atténuer les risques VBG dans les transferts monétaires?

Guides et outils

Les transferts monétaires (TM) sont devenus des outils incontournables dans la réponse humanitaire au Burundi. Opportunité unique pour la résilience des populations vulnérables, il est indispensable que ces outils intègrent des mesures pour atténuer et minimiser au maximum les risques inhérents au...

25 November 2019

Burundi Case Study: How can we reduce GBV risks in cash and voucher assistance?

Guidelines and Tools

Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) has become a valuable and increasingly utilized tool in humanitarian response in Burundi. CVA has been shown to contribute to the resilience of vulnerable populations, but in order to maximize its effectiveness, humanitarian actors should establish Gender Based Violence...

25 November 2019

Assistência em Dinheiro e Cupões que Funciona para as Mulheres: 6 lições do terreno

Report

A Assistência em Dinheiro e Cupões (CVA) é actualmente uma ferramenta comum na acção humanitária que é utilizada para fazer face, com maior dignidade, às diversas necessidades de pessoas refugiadas por motivo de crises e conflitos. Embora existam cada vez mais evidências do efeito da CVA no...

11 November 2019

Programación de Transferencias Monetarias Que Funciona Para Mujeres: 6 Lecciones del Terreno

Informe

En la actualidad, la Programación de Transferencias Monetarías que funciona para mujeres (PTM) es una herramienta común entre las acciones humanitarias y se usa para satisfacer las diversas necesidades de las personas desplazadas por crisis y conflictos con mayor dignidad.1 Aunque existe evidencia...

8 November 2019

Les Transferts Monétaires qui Fonctionnent Pour les Femmes : 6 leçons apprises sur le terrain

Rapport

Le transfert monétaire (TM) est désormais un outil courant dans l’action humanitaire, utilisé pour répondre avec une plus grande dignité aux divers besoins des personnes déplacées par la crise ou les conflits.1 Bien qu’il y ait un nombre croissant de preuves sur l’effet du TM sur le...

8 November 2019

Cash and Voucher Assistance that Works for Women: 6 lessons from the field

Report

Building on CARE’s commitment to be ‘cash ready’ to achieve breakthroughs with and for women and girl, CARE commissioned a study –in Malawi, Haiti, Jordan, the Philippines and Niger–on gender-sensitive CVA that allowed actual CVA recipients to frame the discussion. This is a brief from the...

8 November 2019

برنامج المساعدات النقدية والقسائم المناسب للنساء_النسخة العربية

تقرير

Building on CARE’s commitment to be ‘cash ready’ to achieve breakthroughs with and for women and girl, CARE commissioned a study –in Malawi, Haiti, Jordan, the Philippines and Niger–on gender-sensitive CVA that allowed actual CVA recipients to frame the discussion. This is a brief from the...

8 November 2019

Mitigating Risks of Abuse of Power in Cash Assistance – 4 pages

Report

UNHCR and WFP are implementing a joint project to identify and mitigate risks of abuse by private sector service providers in their delivery of cash assistance to vulnerable populations. The project involves work with financial service providers, traders and other private sector stakeholders, as well as...

November 2019

The humanitarian currency enabling children’s future – Inter-agency cash roundtable

Report

This summary report highlights key presentation insights, and recommendations from the CALP Network & World Vision co-hosted inter-agency Cash Roundtable, focusing on how CVA can be an enabler to promote child protection and child wellbeing, based on most recent research, case studies from across the...

30 September 2019