Cash and Voucher Assistance
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Humanitarian Principles and Global Standards
- Quality Humanitarian Project Management & Implementation
- Emergency Preparedness & Early Action
- Beneficiary Selection
- Distributions
- Humanitarian Donors & Rapid Funding
- Partnerships & Coordination
- Cash and Vouchers Assistance in Emergencies
- Markets in Emergencies
- Food Security & Livelihoods in Emergencies
- Nutrition in Emergencies
- WASH in Emergencies
- Shelter, NFIs & Settlements in Emergencies
- Education in Emergencies
- Environment in Emergencies
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- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Market Assessments
- Labour Market Assessments and Employment
- Facilitation Approaches
- Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships
- Value Chain Development
- Monitoring and Evaluation of MSD
- Women's Economic Empowerment
- Markets in Emergency / Recovery Contexts
- Green Market Approaches
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance
- PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools
- Child Protection and Well-Being
- Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
- Inclusion and gender
- Environment and Climate Change
- Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing
- Learning Outcomes
- Labour market assessment and employment
- One World in Schools (OWIS)
- Key Resources
- Examples of PIN's Interventions
- Introduction to Nutrition
- Nutrition Security Assessments
- Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) (incl. mHealth and Positive Deviance)
- Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
- Nutrition and WASH
- Nutrition and Gender
- Nutrition Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Programming
- Nutrition in Emergencies
- Key Resources
- MEAL Planning at the Proposal Stage
- MEAL Planning during the Project Implementation
- Assessments
- Quantitative Data Collection
- Qualitative Data Collection
- Data Analysis
- Evaluation
- Data Use and Learning
- Feedback and Response Mechanisms
- Data protection & management
- MEAL in Education and Skills
- Other Sector-specific and Donor-specific MEAL
This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your cash and voucher assistance (CVA). If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.
Key Resources
When can it be useful?
The programme quality toolbox is a set of common standards and actions for quality Cash Based Assistance (CBA) which defines 'what' needs to happen for quality CBA. Each action is supported by a set of guidelines and ready to use tools and templates on 'how' to achieve quality CBA. The toolbox is the main supporting documentation on CBA in the 2018 Sphere Handbook.
When can it be useful?
The CiE Toolkit is organized in modules, each corresponding to a different phase of the project cycle: 1. preparedness, 2. assessment, 3. response analysis, 4. set-up and implementation, and 5. monitoring and evaluation. Each module is divided in steps and sub-steps. They are indicative and not necessarily sequential.
When can it be useful?
The multi-agency “ Multipurpose Cash Assistance Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit” includes tools and XLS form/KoBo survey templates to facilitate the implementation of Multipurpose Cash (MPC) programs. The toolkit is aligned with the Grand Bargain Cash Workstream initiative to better standardize MPC outcome indicators.
Introduction to Cash and Voucher Assistance
When can it be useful?
The main website of The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), a global partnership of humanitarian actors engaged in policy, practice and research within Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA).
When can it be useful?
The State of the World’s Cash 2023 provides a ‘state of play’ in terms of the current use of CVA. It outlines progress made and challenges to be overcome. It explains strategic debates and provides clear recommendations to accelerate progress. Fundamentally, this report is about how to design and deliver more effective and people-centred aid.
When can it be useful?
The document presents operational guidance setting out DG ECHO’s expectations in the field of humanitarian cash assistance. It has been developed on the basis of programmatic best practice. Additionally, it underlines the importance of cash as a key tool for operationalising the humanitarian–development nexus.
Needs Assessment & Response Analysis
When can it be useful?
The toolkit provides guidance and tools to conduct a response analysis for CVA. It ranges from cash feasibility considerations to risk analysis, from delivery mechanism selection to decision making matrix.
When can it be useful?
These documents constitute the final draft of the Basic Needs Assessment (BNA) Guidance and Toolbox, commissioned by Save the Children within the broader framework for the uptake of quality, collaborative multipurpose grants (MPGs).
When can it be useful?
This How-to Guide is Part 2 of the BNA Guidance & Toolbox, with Part 1 describing the background and concepts underpinning the BNA approach.
The How-to Guide describes the sequence of practical steps necessary to ensure a successful BNA during emergencies, from initiation of the BNA up to reporting and dissemination of the final findings.
Modalities
When can it be useful?
This operational guidance and toolkit brings together worldwide expertise on cash-based interventions (CBIs). It provides comprehensive and practical guidance for humanitarian actors to assess the feasibility, conceptualise the design and structure the implementation of MPGs.
When can it be useful?
If you are reading the Voucher and Fair Implementation Guide (Voucher Guide), we assume you are familiar with the preconditions for CTP and the advantages and disadvantages of voucher programs. As such, the Voucher Guide is written for the active design and implementation of cash, restricted cash, and commodity voucher programs and/or fairs.
When can it be useful?
In this document, Mercy Corps examines the process of Cash-for-Work (CfW) implementation and provides a general methodology that can be adapted to the many different countries and contexts in which we work.
Transfer Mechanisms
When can it be useful?
The E-transfer Implementation Guide was created for Mercy Corps team members considering – or already using – digital technology to deliver cash or vouchers to program participants. Chapters 1 and 2 provide an overview of the steps required to use digital payments. The Annexes contain customizable tools and templates.
When can it be useful?
Recognising the need to complement the Guidelines with practical tools that can be used by field practitioners, UNHCR developed a Cash Delivery Mechanism Assessment Tool (CDMAT) in 2016 to help field teams to assess the adequacy of various cash delivery mechanisms to meet programme needs.
When can it be useful?
This Toolkit is designed to support these efforts and was created by the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Global Development Lab and NetHope’s Payment Innovations Project to assist relief and development organizations
in making the journey from using cash payments to e-payments wherever possible.
Sectors
When can it be useful?
This Evaluation Report illustrates the potential benefit of integrating CVA in Gender-Based Violence response with the evaluation of a program from NorthWest Syria. It also describes trends and impact over a period of nine months on a number of indicators encompassing from economic resilience to personal well-being.
When can it be useful?
The purpose of this document is to provide practical guidance on market-based programming (MBP) in humanitarian WASH responses. This guidance is intended for:
- Humanitarian WASH practitioners
- Cash and markets practitioners
- Humanitarian business support teams supporting WASH programmes
- WASH Cluster/Sector coordinators
When can it be useful?
This evidence and guidance note explains complementarities and strategies for the use of Cash and Voucher Assistance to achieve nutrition outcomes in emergencies. It identifies seven steps throughout the humanitarian programme cycle and four transversal issues that need to be considered when incorporating CVA in a nutrition response.
Market Analysis
When can it be useful?
This resource is a set of standards (similar to the Sphere Standards), indicators and guidance on conducting market assessments/analysis in disaster or early recovery contexts (to ensure interventions can help meet basic needs while using and strengthening markets in this process), they have been designed to be used by non-market specialists across sectors.
When can it be useful?
This resource provides guidance on how to do a market assessment to develop a basic understanding of key markets within the first few days after a shock, it can be used by humanitarian practitioners with limited market expertise.
Also available in: French, Spanish
When can it be useful?
This resource is a set of tools and guidance notes for front-line humanitarian staff in sudden-onset emergencies to better understand, accommodate, and make use of market systems, it provides detailed guidance on each of the steps involved in market assessment.
Monitoring & Evaluation
When can it be useful?
The indicators in this document, developed by the Grand Bargain Cash Workstream, focus on the primary objectives of humanitarian Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPC), and the outcomes to which MPC can most strongly contribute in a given context.
When can it be useful?
The multi-agency “ Multipurpose Cash Assistance Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit” includes tools and XLS form/KoBo survey templates to facilitate the implementation of Multipurpose Cash (MPC) programs. The toolkit is aligned with the Grand Bargain Cash Workstream initiative to better standardize MPC outcome indicators.
When can it be useful?
Here you can find practical guidance on indicators that are most commonly used in cash and voucher assistance in emergencies. It is based on the aid agencies’ field experience and best practices promoted by CaLP, donors and other stakeholders.
Cross-Cutting Topics
When can it be useful?
The Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B) Working Group on Linking Humanitarian Assistance and Social Protection proposes nine Common Principles to inform actions for more effective progress in linking HA-SP to provide better services to affected people.
When can it be useful?
Drawing from field learning and a close engagement with CVA and GBV actors in various contexts, the GBV AoR and UNFPA have developed a user-friendly GBV Risk Mitigation in CVA Toolkit to guide and support CVA and GBV practitioners in identifying and mitigating potential GBV risk in cash programming.
When can it be useful?
This good practice collection aims to benefit both humanitarian practitioners engaged in Cash Based Interventions (CBI) and the wider humanitarian sector by presenting insights and learning on how humanitarian CBI programmes can be made more inclusive, to ensure equal outcomes for disaster-affected people with disabilities and other at-risk groups.
Training Materials
When can it be useful?
When can it be useful?
This session will introduce you to the fundamentals of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and will help you to begin understanding it. No knowledge of CVA is required to do this course.
