September 13, 2025
2024 Alumni CPDP Blog: Daniela’s Funez’s story
The continuation of this blog series will focus on the highlights from the recent Alumni of the 2024 Cash Practitioner Development Programme, allowing practitioners to share what they have learnt and experienced during their Cash School learning deployments.
The Cash Practitioner Development Programme aims to expand the ready pool of cash experts available to deliver humanitarian cash assistance, and to strengthen the community of qualified practitioners with up-to-date skills in all areas of cash assistance. Cash deployments are a key element of participants learning schedules, these deployments aim to enhance skills and confidence in implementing cash based assistance. Some deployments are run in partnership with NORCAP, with practitioners accessing deployment opportunities from a range of humanitarian agencies.
Meet Daniela Funez from Our 2024 Cash Practitioner Development Programme!
Daniela Funez serves as the Regional Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Coordinator for IFRC in the Americas. She supports National Societies in strengthening their CVA capacity through surge deployments, training, and preparedness initiatives. As part of her Cash School learning, she deployed to Poland to support the facilitation team for a RAM training and provided remote assistance to National Societies on engaging with Global Financial Service Providers for CVA programming and CVA Preparedness.
