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

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…

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…

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…

1 July 2020

Tip sheet: Working through Cash Collaborative Approaches during COVID-19

Type:

Tip sheet

Organization:

Cash Helpdesk, Cash Hub

This guidance is for National Societies (NS) to understand how engaging in collaborative cash approaches could be beneficial during COVID-19, learning from models being used to collaborate on CVA and…

  • Cash and COVID-19
  • National society cash readiness

1 July 2020

Tip sheet: COVID-19 CVA preparedness: Ensuring minimum requirements to deliver timely, accountable, and effective CVA are in place

Type:

Tip sheet

Organization:

Cash Helpdesk, Cash Hub, IFRC

This document provides a brief guidance to National Societies with no or limited CVA experience, to make the critical and necessary preparations required to deliver timely and accountable CVA.

  • Cash and COVID-19
  • National society cash readiness

1 July 2020

Tip sheet: COVID-19 Sensitive Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Across the Project Cycle

Type:

Tip sheet

Organization:

Cash Helpdesk, Cash Hub

This document is intended as a learning tool for National Societies, providing information on how CVA should be adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes tips and considerations for each…

  • Cash and COVID-19
  • National society cash readiness

21 March 2020

Tip sheet: Cash and Voucher Assistance and COVID-19

Type:

Tip sheet

Organization:

ICRC

Tool 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…

  • Cash and COVID-19
  • Cash in emergencies
  • National society cash readiness

10 December 2019

Cash Preparedness, Niger Red Cross

Type:

Video

Organization:

BRC, Niger Red Cross

Short interview with the Secretary General of the Niger Red Cross, who explains the work of the National Society in relation to cash preparedness and cash programming in the context…

  • Africa
  • Cash in emergencies
  • National society cash readiness
  • Video

1 December 2019

Investing in Cash and Voucher Coordination in Kenya

Type:

Case study

Organization:

BRC, Cash Hub

Case study focusing on CVA coordination in Kenya and the need to invest in the right cash coordination architecture in advance to strengthen the overall impact of CVA.

  • Africa
  • Cash and social protection
  • Cash in emergencies
  • Development programme

In partnership with:

British Red Cross