Cash and Locally-led Response Working Group

The group is open to the whole Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA)/humanitarian community, and currently we are encouraging local organisations and stakeholders to participate in order to share their experiences on the use of CVA and influence how to increase the leadership of local CVA actors.  

The Grand Bargain independent review (HPG/ODI, 20212) recognised the success of the Grand Bargain Workstream 3 (the “Cash” workstream) in engaging local partners but also highlighted the need to focus further on “securing a fairer and more appropriate distribution of leadership and decision-making authority, as well as access to funding between international and local actors”. 

The State of the World Cash report (CALP, 20203) identified a growing consensus on the importance of localisation within CVA. Its priority actions included an increase in predictable funding to local structures and systems, ensuring meaningful participation and visibility of local actors in CVA discussions and CVA coordination platforms, and building true alliances with local stakeholders.    

The Locally-led response Working Group will engage with Grand Bargain 2.0 to contribute to further progress on these issues as well as others that arise.   

The Cash and locally led response Working Group is currently co-lead by Women´s Right to Education Programme (WREP), Christian Aid, Global Mentoring Initiative (GMI) and the CALP Network (CALP). The Working Group meets only quarterly. 

Current priorities of the Working Group:

• To enable local and national actors to engage in global platforms on cash and voucher assistance. 
• To advocate for Cash and Voucher Assistance policies, systems and practices to be aligned with localization commitments, with a focus on relevant learnings and actions. 
• Knowledge and information on Cash and Local Partnerships to be collated and shared. 

Why should you join us? 

• You will be part of an open space where you can share your experiences and knowledge, learn from colleagues around the world and have a saying in shaping the discussion around CVA.  
• In the meetings, you will have the chance of networking, finding out about learning opportunities and ways to engage with relevant initiatives.
• You will learn about CVA and localization developments and updates. 
• And you will have the chance to express your issues and contribute to current debates. 

Please note that later on we will have a preparation session with the new members to discuss where we are, where we are going and so forth and identify their own priorities. 

If you are interested in becoming a member of this group, please fill out this form and we will get back to you with the following steps. 

Contacts

For more information you can contact the Cash and locally led response Working Group co-leads sending a message to: Mimidoo Achakpa (WREP) mimidoo2013@gmail.com, Smruti Patel (GMI) spatel@gmentor.org , Matthew Tebbut (Christian Aid), MTebbutt@christian-aid.org or José Jódar (CALP Network) jose.jodar@calpnetwork.org

We will be happy to welcome you!