Category: CVA
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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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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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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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