Tonga Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Community of Practice (CoP)

The Tonga Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Community of Practice (CoP) was formed on an ad-hoc basis with the support of WFP, ADRA, IOM, IFRC, MORDI, Tonga Red Cross, UNICEF, and Oxfam in 2022, during the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai response. The group meets regularly to share operational challenges and mitigation measures with the PRCWG leading on the CVA-CoP in Tonga.

The Tonga CoP had its first meeting on 23 March, 2022 to coordinate on the implementation of CVA in response to the Hunga Tonga Hunga Volcano eruption. The group is being chaired and co-chaired by WFP and OXFAM respectively. The key cash actors and members of the CoP are ADRA, IOM, MORDI, IFRC, UNICEF and Save the Children. 

Meetings to date: 

• 23 March, 2022

• 1 April, 2022

• 14 April, 2022

• 11 May, 2022

Minutes of the meeting are available at: https://reliefweb.int/report/tonga/cash-and-voucher-assistance-tonga-community-practice-meeting

The World Food Program’s Research, Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) unit, are conducting a Post Disaster Assessment in Tonga, working in collaboration with the ILO. The essential needs assessment approach is used with the inclusion of food security and livelihoods and the multi-dimensional deprivation index, that provides information for multi-sectoral approach for e.g. labour incomes, livelihoods and coping strategy index to understand the impact of the shock from the Hunga Tonga Hunga Volcano eruption. The assessment is being conducted through remote monitoring and will target high risk and high impacted divisions.

Data collection commenced on the 6 July, 2022 and have completed 606/1200 calls to date.