- Ali MANSOOR | Pacific Regional CWG Coordinator
- ali.mansoor@wfp.org
- Philippe MARTINS | Co chiar - WFP
- philippe.martins@wfp.org
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Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) continues to be an expanding modality for the delivery of humanitarian assistance in the Pacific region. The humanitarian partners have used CVA along with other modalities to support the lives of people affected by disasters due to Its role as an efficient, effective, and flexible mode of addressing the humanitarian needs during all stages of the disaster life cycle have enhanced, while strengthening livelihoods, markets, and local economy or long-terms sustainable results in a dignified way with the inclusion of gender and disabilities mainstreaming and targeted actions. Contributing also to the recovery, resilience, and peacebuilding agendas.
Humanitarian and development agencies have been using cash and voucher assistance as an assistance modality in the Pacific since late 2009. The Regional Cash Working group in the Pacific was established in 2017 as a working group with a term of reference, annual work plan, and secretariat managed by WFP, after being inactive for some time, the PRCWG was re-invigorated in Feb 2021, currently, PRCWG has a full time dedicated PRCWG coordinator deployed by CashCap and hosted by WFP.
The PRCWG endorsed by Pacific Humanitarian Team (PHT) is a group for knowledge sharing and dissemination to Pacific development and humanitarian agencies and regional coordination bodies such as the Pacific Humanitarian Team, Regional Inter-Cluster Coordination Group. It also provides the opportunity for regional coordination and harmonisation of approaches used by cash practitioners and Country Cash Working Groups in the Pacific.
The Pacific Regional Cash Working Group (PRCWG) therefore seeks to strengthen collaboration on CVA in both disaster preparedness and response, as well as financial access & inclusion, social protection, and other economic inclusion and/or market-based programming involving the transfer of cash or voucher payments to households. The PRCWG is intended to complement and connect with the in-country formal coordination structures of the Government and the international humanitarian community.
The Pacific Regional Cash working groups focused on 4 core Strategic Objectives:
Papua New Guinea Cash Working Group (PNG-CWG) - in process
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Introductory Courses on CVA |
The Fundamentals of CVA |
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Introduction to Market Analysis |
CVA Skills course for Programme Staff |
Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff |
CVA and other subjects |
CVA training for donor staff |
A Practical Guide to Market Analysis |
CVA and Social Protection – Part 1 |
CVA and Social Protection – Part 2 |
MEB, gap analysis and calculating the transfer value |
Why Data Rights Matter |
Link: https://kayaconnect.org/course/view.php?id=3015#mymoodle_outertabs_13021 |
Name of Trainer: Ali MANSOOR based in Fiji, (available to deliver the training in the Pacific region)
Contact information Ali.Mansoor@wfp.org |
Name of Trainer: Ana Alburqueque based in Fiji, (available to deliver the training in the Pacific region)
Can be contacted at anaalburqueque@adra.org.fj - +679 9221019 - Skype: Ana.alburqueque6 - Anni1alburqueque@gmail.com |
Name of Trainer: Suliasi Sarosaro based in Fiji, (available to deliver the training in the Pacific region)
Can be contacted at suliasi.sarosaro@savethechildren.org.au |
If you are a Cash and Voucher help Trainer and based in South Pacific, please write to us at Ali.Mansoor@wfp.org