Reports

Stefan Bumbacher and Ruth McCormack, CaLP Senior Technical Officers, and Nathalie Klein, CaLP West Africa Regional Representative Terminology Matters From cash coordination workshops in Dakar to market-based programming sessions in Geneva, anyone who has ever discussed cash and…

As cash and voucher assistance (CVA) becomes ever more prevalent it is more important than ever for humanitarian and development actors to act to prevent and mitigate associated child safeguarding risks. Children are particularly vulnerable, and even…

Introduction The Safer Cash Toolkit has been designed to address the challenge of insufficient information available to systematically identify the risks that people face as a result of receiving and using cash in humanitarian programs. The toolkit…

INTRODUCTION The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) uses cash and vouchers to help people affected by armed conflict and other violence cover their most urgent needs and to support their recovery over the long term. In…

This one-page guide helps practitioners understand how three complementary resources on support the integration of CVA and GBV prevention, mitigation and response to strengthen humanitarian response. It aims to help users make decisions on when to…

A wide-open opportunity for change in humanitarian settings Tenzin Manell, Senior Technical Advisor for Cash and Livelihoods, Women’s Refugee Commission and Holly Welcome Radice, Cash and Markets Technical Advisor at CARE Cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is now…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY About this report This report presents the findings of a study into the general feasibility of using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in responding to disasters in Fiji. The term “Cash and Voucher Assistance” or CVA,…

Summary The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) relies heavily on market monitoring and analysis to inform the project’s integrated food security analysis. Increasingly, FEWS NET provides decision support to USAID/Food for Peace (FFP) on food…

REBECCA HOLMES © Crown copyright 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the past decade, the use of cash transfers in humanitarian crises has increased. Moreover, humanitarian interventions now increasingly move beyond immediate crisis response and link to recovery and development initiatives…

1. Definition Cash for Work interventions provide employment to unskilled and semi-skilled workers on labour intensive projects such as rehabilitation of irrigation systems, soil conservation, and road construction and maintenance. 2. Cash for Work objective In most cases, CFW projects often…