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Cash in Conflict
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) has several significant benefits that are well known, including increasing people’s dignity, power, autonomy and choice in how they manage their survival and recovery. CVA can also offer greater operational flexibility and achieve wider social and economic multiplier effects beyond its specific purpose.
Cash is used by people to pay for goods and services all around the world. This fact does not change in situations of armed conflict, when having cash in their hands can be mean the difference between life and death.
The ICRC – who have 16,800 staff in over 80 countries, helping people affected by armed conflict and violence – is enthusiastic about the benefits of CVA and realistic about when it is best to use it. Our experience and evidence shows that cash is an essential tool in humanitarian action in armed conflict, and our own operational analysis confirms many of the positive findings from other policy and academic studies.
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This section of the Cash Hub aims to share the experience of the ICRC and of those Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies working in countries affected by conflict and other situations of violence.
Read the latest report below to find out more about the ICRC’s experience of using CVA in armed conflict
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13 March 2023
Learning from the Ukraine Crisis Webinar Series: Building cash capacity within a conflict context
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Cash HubThe second webinar in the series saw speakers from Ukraine Red Cross, Romania Red Cross, Polish Red Cross and IFRC discussed the learnings related to building National Society cash capacity…
3 March 2023
One Year Humanitarian Crisis In Ukraine: The Supporting Role Of Technology
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510The escalation of conflict in Ukraine continues to fuel a devastating humanitarian crisis that is affecting the lives of millions of people. 510, the Data & Digital initiative of the…
14 February 2023
CVA in the Ukraine and impacted countries crisis response
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IFRCSince the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine at the end of February 2022, approximately one-third of Ukrainians have been displaced. The IFRC’s Operational Strategy for Ukraine and impacted countries…
13 February 2023
Learning from the Ukraine Crisis Webinar Series: CEA for Remote CVA programming webinar
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Cash HubThe first webinar in the series aimed to explore how Community, Engagement and Accountability (CEA) minimum actions and approaches were integrated into CVA within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement…
23 January 2023
Present and Engaged: How the ICRC responds to armed conflict and violence in cities
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ICRCThis document provides an overview of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s experience in responding to the impact of war and violence in cities and recommends areas for humanitarian…
29 October 2022
Is Cash a Good Form of Aid?
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VideoThis video from the ICRC video series ‘Your Questions Answered’ highlights the benefits of cash as a fast and effective form of aid.
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