Category: MPCA

  • 7 Essential Cash, CVA, and livelihood Indicators for your Next Program

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    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…

    MPCA concept: paper bag full of groceries and cash
  • MPCA Targeting Easily Explained

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    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…

    Humanitarian worker helps a person with disability to fill out cash form