RESOURCES

Cash Preparedness​

In this section you will find resources aiming at supporting entities of the Movement, improving their capacity and operational readiness to provide scalable and timely cash assistance.

Strengthening national humanitarian action and localisation of aid through investments into National Societies of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement  will be fundamental to building the overall capacity of the humanitarian sector to deliver more effective and efficient humanitarian assistance through uptake of cash assistance. In this section you will find resources aiming at supporting entities of the Movement, improving their capacity and operational readiness to provide scalable and timely cash assistance.

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Key Resources

8 February 2021

Guidance for Mainstreaming Cash and Voucher Assistance Cash Preparedness for Effective Response – Chapter 1: CVAP Areas

This guidance is intended for NSs at the country level, but can also be used by other components…

8 February 2021

Guidance for Mainstreaming Cash and Voucher Assistance Cash Preparedness for Effective Response – Chapter 2: ICRC CVA Preparedness Guidance

This ICRC-specific guidance follows the same structure as the CVAP guidance for NSs (for the latter see Chapter…

17 June 2024

Guidance for Mainstreaming Cash and Voucher Assistance Cash Preparedness for Effective Response – Chapter 3: Measuring CVA Organisational Preparedness and CVA Operational Readiness

Chapter 3 focuses on evaluating NSs’ capacity to deliver scalable, timely, and accountable CVA through specific indicators and…

5 August 2026

Asia-Pacific CVA Newsletter – Q2 2026

Type:

Newsletter

Organization:

IFRC

A publication by the IFRC AP Regional Office and Hong Kong Red Cross, this newsletter installment highlights developments in cash and voucher assistance from the second quarter of 2026.

  • Asia-Pacific Community of Practice
  • Emergencies

27 July 2026

Cash Capacity Matters: Chad Red Cross’s CashCap Embedded Expert

Type:

Case study

Organization:

Cash Hub, Croix-Rouge du Tchad, Norcap

This case study explains how the Chad Red Cross strengthened its Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) capacity by hosting a CashCap expert through a partnership between NORCAP and the British…

  • cash assistance

20 July 2026

Money where it matters: Key messages from a cost-efficiency analysis of the IFRC network

Type:

Learning

Organization:

Cash Hub

This document outlines key messages and headline findings from a 2025 analytical study that examined the cost efficiency of humanitarian resource transfers delivered through National Societies and IFRC operations, and…

  • cash assistance
  • cash coordination
  • Cost Efficiency

16 July 2026

Embedded in the System: The Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan’s Path to Institutionalizing Cash and Voucher Assistance

Type:

Case study

Organization:

Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan

This case study documents the Cash and Voucher Preparedness (CVAP) journey of the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan (RCSK). RCSK first piloted the use of CVA in 2012 in response…

16 July 2026

Learning through Action: The Red Cross Society of Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Practical Path to Cash Readiness

Type:

Case study

Organization:

Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina

This case study documents the Cash Preparedness journey of the Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina (RCSBiH). RCSBiH first used CVA in 2014 in response to flooding and began…

16 July 2026

Rooted in Local Solutions: The Georgia Red Cross Society’s Cash Preparedness Journey

Type:

Case study

Organization:

Georgia Red Cross Society

This case study documents the Cash Preparedness (CVAP) journey of the Georgia Red Cross Society (GRCS). GRCS first used CVA in 2015 in response to flooding and began its institutional…


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