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7 Essential Cash, CVA, and livelihood Indicators for your Next Program
Introduction Cash assistance is fundamental for any humanitarian or crisis response, reaching $7.9 billion globally in 2022. But here’s the challenge: “How would you measure the success?“ When recipients can spend money however they choose—which is the whole point of multi-purpose cash—traditional monitoring gets complicated. This flexibility of cash can be a curse for any […]
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HNRP 2026 in Numbers
Five Years Into Full-Scale War In this article we will present OCHA vision for the response (HNRP) of the humanitarian community to the protracted crisis in Ukraine. Since February 2022, over 53,000 civilian casualties have been verified, with a 27% increase in the first ten months of 2025 alone compared to the same period in […]
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5 Years of Cash and Voucher Assistance in Ukraine in Numbers
Introduction The 2022 brought the largest conflict in Europe since WWII, probing entire international community with the largest challenge in its modern history – the full scale invasion of Ukraine. The international donors, United Nations, and partners has consolidated and appropriate response, helping to absorb the first shock of the armed conflict with cash and […]
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5 key Elements of the CVA program in 2026
Cash and Voucher Assistance works because it’s fundamentally person-centered—it gives people agency and preserves dignity. In the previous article, we projected CVA funding to rebound to $500 million in 2026, cash-based approaches will be central to nearly every national and international NGO’s programming. As health program professionals who’ve spent three years designing and implementing CVA […]
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Assessment of Internet Access in Rural Conflict-Affected Areas of Ukraine
Abstract Digital infrastructure can be as critical as physical infrastructure, especially in the areas affected by the crisis. In Ukraine’s context, prolonged armed conflict and the current economic situation make the establishment of new health facilities or the rehabilitation of damaged ones exceptionally challenging.. This article presents a cross-sectional study of internet access, which has […]
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MPCA Targeting Easily Explained
From Blanket Coverage to Precision Targeting Since the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine’s humanitarian cash response has evolved dramatically. What began as blanket coverage—providing multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) to anyone displaced or affected—has matured into a sophisticated, evidence-based targeting system. By 2024, humanitarian partners reached over 1 million people with MPCA, with 88% living in […]
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Assessment of the Energy and Environment Domain – a clear Outlier
This article will outline the key findings of the Sanitation Domain and summarize the 3-year effort of the WASH partners
