training and development
Online courses
There is a wide range of short, high-quality courses available online for free. Online learning provides a flexible approach and broader learning experience, allowing participants to access courses remotely from around the globe. These are available to staff and volunteers, or anyone outside the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement with an interest in cash assistance.
Please note most links will redirect you to the online portal, where you might be required to create a user profile
Introductory courses on CVA
- Cash and Voucher Assistance – The Fundamentals
- Cash: an introduction
- Market assessments: Introduction
- Introduction to Market Analyses (IRC)
CVA courses for programme staff
- CEA in Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) E-learning Course
- Market assessments: Rapid Assessment for Markets (RAM)
- Key Concepts in CVA
- Assessments in Humanitarian Response
- Market-based Programming: Key Concepts
- Choosing the right market assessment tools
- Risk analysis and risk management
- Exploring delivery mechanism options
- Feasibility and response analysis
- Targeting and registration
- Working with financial service providers
- Accountability to affected populations
- Encashment and reconciliation
- Monitoring fundamentals
- Market Monitoring
Practice your CVA skills
- Practical Scenario: Coordinating multi-sector Cash and Voucher Assistance
- Practical Scenario: Monitoring and Adapting Cash and Voucher Assistance
Specialised courses
- CVA and social protection – part 1
- CVA and social protection – part 2
- The Remote Cash Course
- MEB, gap analysis and calculating the transfer value
- Why data rights matter
- What is Social Protection
- Social Protection Programmes
- Integrated and Digital Social Protection Information Systems
- Adaptive Social Protection
- Social Protection and Rural Poverty
- Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) Series 1: Programmes and Delivery Systems
- Digital Humanitarian Payments
CVA courses for donors
- Donor Module 1 – Making the case for cash: trends, evidence and advocacy
- Donor module 2 – donor strategies and commitments
- Donor module 3 – quality CVA throughout the programme cycle
- Donor module 4 – managing the risks and doing no harm
- Donor module 5 – donors roles in influencing quality CVA
- Donor module 6 – collaborative cash delivery
Courses for Operations Staff
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