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CVA, Climate and Environment Community of Practice – Anticipatory Action and Cash
Event
Anticipatory Action and CVA: Understanding and Exploring Key Concepts, Issues, Approaches, and Perspectives. The webinar will be delivered at times friendly to the Americas and Asia Pacific regions.
Does Cash-Plus Programming Work in Contexts of Protracted Crises?
Policy paper
Cash-plus programmes aim to strengthen food security and livelihoods by providing cash transfers alongside complementary support and services. In stable settings, these programmes can, to some extent, draw on established public services and administrative capacities. Yet, increasingly they are used in...
Locally Led Anticipatory Action Guide and Toolkit
Guidelines and Tools
How civil society organisations can engage with communities, and collaborate with mandated, technical and donor agencies to localise and scale up early warning and early action
The purpose of the guide is to support civil society organisations to engage with communities and other actors and structures...
Pathways Toward a Green Humanitarian Response
Report
The humanitarian sector is grappling with the task of reducing its negative impacts upon the climate and environment. Despite growing awareness of the need to shift towards greener action, tangible change and outcomes have remained frustratingly limited, while the impacts of climate and environmental...
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...
Comunidad de Prácticas sobre los Programas de Transferencias Monetarias de Clima y Medio Ambiente: ¿Una respuesta más verde?
Grabación webinar
Mitigación del impacto medioambiental de los programas de transferencias monetarias
Communauté de Pratique – Transferts Monétaires, Climat & Environnement : Une réponse plus verte ?
Enregistrement webinaire
Atténuer les impacts environnementaux des transferts monétaires
CVA, Climate & Environment Community of Practice: A greener response?
Webinar recording
Mitigating the environmental impacts of CVA
Framework for Greening Humanitarian Action in the Pacific
Guidelines and Tools
The Pacific region is highly vulnerable to the increasingly frequent and severe disasters caused by natural hazards, including extreme weather and climate change. Whilst humanitarian responses to these disasters are increasing proportionally, their own negative impacts must be reduced. Incorporating...
Just in Time: Advancing anticipatory cash in Pakistan
Guidelines and Tools
Cash and voucher assistance in humanitarian response has grown significantly in recent years, with evidence showing that it supports the agency of recipients, reduces harmful coping strategies, supports local economies, and is a cost-effective form of humanitarian assistance.
The use of cash as a form...
Anticipatory Action in Complex Crises: Lessons from Ethiopia
Case Study
While anticipatory action (AA) is commonly designed to address one specific hazard such as drought, many populations are experiencing repeated and multiple hazards and challenges. Given this, there is a need to understand how anticipatory action fits within the context of protracted and overlapping...
WVI Cash Roadmap 2.0 – New Avenues – Leveraging, multiplying “Nexus” cash to take children and their families further than imagined
Policy paper
WVI's strategic global Cash Roadmap 2.0 (2024-2027) speaks to the organisations' commitment that amidst polycrises and resourcing constraints, there is urgency to maximise and multiply World Vision's capabilities, assets and cash voucher programming (CVP=CVA) is a powerful tool to do so.
Increasing...
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...
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...
Acting Before Disaster Strikes: The impacts of anticipatory cash transfers on climate resilience in Northeast Nigeria
Case Study
IRC’s research – the first experimental evidence from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on how anticipatory cash compares to post-shock cash transfers in a conflict-affected environment – highlights that anticipatory action is critical to meeting the short- and longer-term needs of households...
Impact Evaluation of Cash-Based Transfers and Gender in Kenya: Inception report
Guidelines and Tools
Gender inequality in economic autonomy is pervasive, particularly in developing countries, and its potential welfare implications are concerning. The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report for 2022 ranks Kenya as 57th for the Gender Gap on Economic participation, and an opportunity index...
Saving Lives and Assets: The value of nexus “Cash” approaches to Anticipatory Action and Social Protection during climate-induced crises
Report
As a follow-on reflection from an inter-agency panel presentation at the ECHO EHF 2023, panelists highlight the importance of drastically changing “gear” to scale up pre-crisis Anticipatory Action investment, leveraging the “nexus” enabler – cash. Humanitarian needs have reached an unprecedented...
Exploring the Connection Between CVA and the Environment
Webinar recording
Watch the recording from our recent workshop covering the relationship between Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and the environment.
CVA, environment and climate change workshop
Event
We come together to take a deeper look at CVA in relation to the environmental crisis. We look at the potential CVA has as a force for good, what more we can do to integrate environmental thinking into its use and how the wider CVA policy framework could better include environmental considerations.
