RESOURCES
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
Key Resources
22 March 2022
ALNAP report
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ALNAPLearn, plan and adapt: some key lessons for the response to the conflict in Ukraine.
4 February 2022
Using Cash and Voucher Assistance to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence: A Practical Guide
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ICRCThe guidance on using cash and voucher assistance (CVA) to prevent and respond to sexual violence provides information on how we can use CVA to respond to the needs of and prevent negative coping strategies for persons at risk and victims/survivors of sexual violence. It explains how to establish an emergency and longer-term response by means of CVA and how we ensure good internal coordination and cooperation addressing the needs of persons at risk and victims/survivors of sexual violence.
17 November 2021
Progress in mainstreaming the use of cash and vouchers in ICRC operations (2017–2021)
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ICRCThis report focuses on the use of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in ICRC activities to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence, sharing information on the growth in the use of CVA and an overview of different CVA programmes and measures to minimise risks commonly associated with this modality.
1 July 2020
Tip sheet: Conducting Monitoring and Evaluation for COVID-19 Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA)
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Cash Helpdesk, Cash Hub, Cash Hub, Cash HubThe purpose of this guidance is to enable National Societies to conduct appropriate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of their CVA programming during COVID-19. The contents of this guidance can be…
21 March 2020
Tip sheet: Cash and Voucher Assistance and COVID-19
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ICRCTool with practical recommendations to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 through ongoing Cash and Voucher Assistance, inform the adaptation of CVA in the context of COVID-19, and promote sensitivity…
15 May 2017
A crucial lifeline is restoring dignity for drought-affected families in Somalia
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ICRCFarmers were hit by successive failed rains that has exacerbated the drought conditions across Somalia. Cash given by ICRC via mobile money has helped Isaaq to buy food for his…
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