Community of Practice

Africa Cash Community of Practice (CoP)

Welcome to the online Africa Cash Community of Practice (CoP) for all African National Societies and their partners. This is a space to share updates, connect and learn together with a focus on Africa and Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). To access all resources for the Africa region, click here

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Recognizing ongoing capacity gaps in CVA/PGI and as part of building the capacity of NSs, Finnish Red Cross staff and IFRC staff to implement quality CVA, the IFRC Africa regional PGI Coordinator, IFRC regional CVA team and the Finnish Red Cross PGI Advisor for Africa have identified the need for capacity-building in integrating PGI mainstreamed in all CVA interventions as well as preventing, mitigating, and responding to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in CVA programming. This collaboration with the Finnish Red Cross will serve as the first cohort and using the materials developed for this training, other cohorts of this training will be conducted.

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The CoP also offers recommendations on key documents and tools, Africa cash roadmap updates and contact information for relevant CVA and other technical focal points in the Africa region.

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Latest news and blogs from the Africa region

4 April 2022

Learning-by-doing: South Africa Red Cross Society's engagement in Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA)

Authors: Aston Mulwafu, Head of Disaster Management and Cash Surge, Malawi Red Cross Society; Ireen Mutombwa -Shumba, National…

Case study

17 December 2021

Launch of the online Africa Cash Community of Practice and the Africa Cash Roadmap

Author: Maja Tønning, Regional CVA Coordinator, IFRC Africa The IFRC in the Africa Region has coordinated the launch…

26 October 2021

CPDP Deployment Blog Post: Shubhadra Devkota’s story

This blog series will focus on the highlights from different Cash Practitioner Development Programme deployments in 2021, allowing practitioners to…