Women’s economic empowerment will be essential for a global economic recovery. Given pre-existing gender gaps,…
Cash and voucher assistance
Review and Analysis of Identification and Registration Systems in Protracted and Recurrent Crisis
Data systems to register and identify recipients of transfers underpin everything in a targeted distribution…
Partnering During Crisis
he ubiquity and scale of mobile networks has made mobile an attractive delivery channel for…
UNHCR Cash Assistance and COVID-19: Emerging Field Practices
This document from UNHCR is a snapshot of the many innovative field practices emerging in…
CVA in COVID-19 Contexts: Guidance from the CaLP network
This is a summary of the key points from rsources being shared on CVA and…
Don’t Jump Straight to Digital: What Ebola Taught Us About Trying to Force New Systems in Crisis
In this podcast from Care International, Holly Radice talks about how people have limited bandwidth to…
Humanitarian Cash Transfers and Financial Inclusion
Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan receive more than one quarter of their humanitarian assistance…
LISTEN NOW: Navigating the Shift to Digital Humanitarian Assistance: Lessons from the International Rescue Committee’s Experience
This webinar, featuring Belinda Baah and Zoe Hamilton from the GSMA’s Mobile for Humanitarian Programme…
Seeking Solutions: New Roles for Technology in Cash and Voucher Programs
More people have been forced to flee their homes than at the height of World…
Integrating Gender into Cash and Voucher Assistance in Humanitarian Settings
Given the Grand Bargain commitments to increase the use of cash and voucher assistance (CVA)…
Principles for Digital Payments in Humanitarian Response
Cash transfers in humanitarian response can be leveraged to prioritize emergency needs first and, at…
Telesom ZAAD: Pushing the mobile money CVA frontier
This case study by the GSMA reveals the promise of mobile money-enabled cash and voucher assistance…
LISTEN NOW: Is mobile money the future of cash and voucher assistance (CVA)?
Billions of dollars in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes are currently delivered annually, and…
Handbooks for use of mobile money enabled cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes
Billions of dollars in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programmes are currently delivered annually, and…
E-Transfer Implementation Guide
The E-transfer Implementation Guide was created for Mercy Corps team members considering – or already…
Reaching the last mile: Introducing Digital Payments for Refugees in Meheba, Zambia
This case study focuses on the journey to design and implement a project to digitize…
Electronic Transfers in Humanitarian Assistance and Uptake of Financial Services
This report from The Cash Learning Partnership explores case studies on humanitarian electronic transfer (‘e-transfer’)…
The Effects of UNHCR and UNICEF Cash Assistance on Syrian Refugees in Jordan
This study aimed to find out what effects the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees…
More Phones, More Transfers?
This case study from Save the Children’s Emergency Food Security Program explores the use of…
Managing Cash-based Programmes in a Volatile Markets Context
This case study from Care International explores the first large-scale humanitarian cash programme in Zimbabwe…
Can Electronic Transfers Help the Poor? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Conditional and unconditional cash transfers have become an increasingly important component of social protection policies…
Cheaper, Faster, Better? A Case Study of New Technologies in Cash Transfers from the Democratic Republic of Congo
This study from Mercy Corps compares three different cash transfer mechanisms used in one humanitarian…
Working with Markets and Cash Standard Operating Procedures and Guidance Notes
As a humanitarian tool, cash and vouchers have a great potential to change the way…