Cash Working Group
South Sudan Inter-Agency Cash Working Group
The South Sudan Inter-Agency Cash Working Group (IA - CWG) CWG is a group of 210 partners, the CWG aims to promote the utilization of cash and voucher as a modality for humanitarian assistance that strengthens theme three of the nine workstreams of the Grand Bargain.
In 2020, guided by the IA – CWG Strategy Paper 2019 – 2020, the CWG is committed to enhancing the strategic, technical and operational coordination, collaboration around cash and voucher assistance with the below objectives:-
- To provide an enabling environment for strategic engagement with all stakeholders
- To promote harmonization of interventions and approaches in the humanitarian response including joint interventions like multipurpose cash assistance, joint assessments and monitoring, harmonization of tools amongst others.
- To advocate for the scale-up of CVA through sectoral interventions, multipurpose cash assistance and hybrid approaches where appropriate.
- To promote linking humanitarian cash assistance with exiting social protection systems.
COVID-19 (Global Documents)
Important Resources on CVA, Markets, Standards, Tipsheets, GBV, and others
- CVA and COVID-19: resources, guidance, events and questions (CaLP Network)
- CVA in COVID-19 contexts: guidance from the CaLP network (CaLP Network)
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)-COVID-19 and CVA (FAQs) (CaLP)
- Live document on CVA and COVID-19 – Key resources (CaLP Network)
- Guidance for Cash-Based Transfers in the Context of the Covid-19 Outbreak (WFP)
- Tipsheet No1: COVID-19 and CVA (Mercy Corps)
- Tipsheet No2: CVA payment and Digital data management – Covid 19 (Mercy Corps)
- Tipsheet V1: CVA and Covid-19 (ICRC)
- Sphere Standards and Covid-19 (the Sphere project)
- Minimum Economy Recovery Standards (MERS) guidance on Covid-19 (SEEP Network)
- Global Humanitarian Response Plan on Covid-19 (OCHA)
- South Sudan clusters level Covid19 resource materials
- From pandemics to poverty: the implications of coronavirus for the furthest behind (ODI)
- “Real time review” on tracking social protection measures taken by governments, (World Bank)
- Cash Transfers in Remote Emergency Programming (NRC)
- Future of financial Aid (IARAN – CaLP Network)
- Gender Implications of Covid-19 Outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings (Care)
- Guidelines for integrating GBV interventions in humanitarian action (GBV guidelines)
- Live document on CCI Guidance on MPCA during Covid-19 (Cash Consortium Iraq)
- Outcomes Analysis: CTP in Ebola crises in Sierra Leone and Liberia (CaLP Network)
- Harnessing Digital Technology for CTP in The Ebola Response (CaLP Network)
- Community Engagement Resources for Covid-19 (IFRC)
- IASC COVID-19 Outbreak Readiness and Response
- COVID-19 and CVA: how are operational actors responding? (CashCap-CaLP)
- CASH ASSISTANCE AND COVID 19: Emerging Field Practices (UNHCR)
- Global Health Cluster and CVA guidelines (WHO)
- Cash and Voucher Assistance for Health Outcomes (GHC-CaLP)
- The Grand Bargain and COVID-19 (IASC)
- Guidance document: REACH cash and markets support for the COVID-19 (REACH)
- WASH and IPC Measures in Households and Public spaces (UNICEF)
- WASH and Waste Management (WHO)
- Savings Groups and COVID-19 (SEEP)
- COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in RCCE (IASC)
- Tracking Cash and Voucher Assistance (ECHO)
- Global Education Cluster Note on the use of CVA for EiE in COVID-19 context (GEC)
- Covid-19 and Cash and Voucher Programming Guidance (WVI)
- The Role of CVA to Reduce Financial Barriers in the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, G-HRP (CashCap and WHO)
- Statement on Likely Impacts of COVID-19 on Humanitarian Cash Transfers in Yemen (CCY)
- Tipsheet: CVA and social protection systems (COVID-19) (Mercy Corps)
- WFP - Cash-based Transfers & Essential Needs Approach (WFP)
- GROUP DISTRIBUTION TIPSHEET: Cash, Vouchers, & Goods (Mercy Corps)
- Policy advice to respond to COVID-19 in Urban Informal Settlements (Shelter Cluster)
- Considerations for Cash and Voucher Assistance in Education in Emergencies Needs Assessments (GEC)
- Study of UNICEF Cash Plus, Interventions, Cost-Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness (UNICEF)
- UNICEF Cost-Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness in Humanitarian Cash Transfer Programming (UNICEF)
- WASH Recommendations for Market Based Approach for Covid 19 response (GWC)
- Looking into 2020: short overview on global clusters, CVA and CaLP (CaLP)
- Markets in Crises (MiC) Statement on COVID-19 (MiC)
Others (Blogs, Maps, and presentations, webinars and others)
- Cash as a Core Component of the COVID-19 Response in Iraq (CCI)
- Resilience and decent work can mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on Jordan’s labour market (ILO)
- Private sector face COVID-19 (ILO)
- WFP GIS (WFP)
- Lessons learned and Opportunities: Linking social protection systems to humanitarian cash in a pandemic (SP.org)
- Economic and food security implications of the COVID-19 outbreak (WFP -VAM)
- Cash in Crises (Cash Essentials)
- Covid-19 Scenarios ACAPS (ACAPS)
- A Joint Statement on the Role of Social Protection in Responding to the COVID-19 (SPIAC-B)
- CVA for Health Outcomes in COVID -19 Webinar Recording (GHC-CaLP)
- How can social protection systems respond to the COVID-19 crisis? (SP.org)
- Cash Transfers for COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (CGDev)
- Advocacy in Response to COVID-19 (CCD-SPWG)
- Impossible Choices – questioning assumptions behind lock-down in low income and fragile contexts (Julie and Sapenzie)
- Faced with COVID-19, the Humanitarian System Should Rethink its Business Model (Jeremy and Patrick)
- All hands on deck: how to scale up multilateral financing to face the Covid-19 crisis (ODI)
- TIME TO PROTECT CASH (James)
- The Potential Mortality Effects of Physical Currency (James)
- Coronavirus In Sub-Saharan Africa (Geopoll)
- Financial Well-being and Health (Datastudio)
- Taking the COVID-19 temperature in emerging markets: (Jane)
- Coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa (Geopoll)
- COVID 19 preliminary scenarios for the humanitarian ecosystem: (IARAN)
- Cash transfers lead the social assistance response to COVID-19 (Davex)
- COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade (IFPRi)
- Mastercard enables Contactless limit raise across 29 countries (Master Card)
- The role of mobile technology for humanitarian assistance in a COVID-19 world (GSMA)
COVID-19 (CWG documents)
LATEST JOINT MARKET MONITORING INITIATIVE REPORTS
The JMMI was initiated by the South Sudan Cash Working Group (CWG) in an effort to inform cash-based interventions and better understand market dynamics in South Sudan. The initiative is guided by the JMMI Technical Working Group, led by REACH and supported by the CWG members. JMMI Factsheets and datasets are shared below:-
2020
Fact Sheets Datasets
November 2020 JMMI Report Dataset
October 2020 JMMI Report Dataset
September 2020 JMMI Report Dataset
August 2020 JMMI Report Dataset
April 2020 JMMI Report Dataset
March 2020 JMMI Report Dataset
February 2020 JMMI Report Dataset
January 2020 JMMI Report Dataset
2019
December 2019 JMMI Report Dataset
November 2019 JMMI Report Dataset
October 2019 JMMI Report Dataset
September 2019 JMMI Report Dataset
August 2019 JMMI Report Dataset
For any questions or further enquiries, please contact the JMMI focal point:
Jonathan Buckley:
jonathan.buckley@reach-initiative.org
JMMI Partners
CWG Strategic Documents
Contacts
Co-Leads
Afsar KHAN
Operations Officer – Shelter/NFIs
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
kafsar@iom.int
Aikins MACBANSAH
CBT Team Leader
WFP
aikins.macbansah@wfp.org
Latest Infographics
CVA important links
- Markets
- FAO - CLiMIS Dashboard (South Sudan)
- FEWS NET South Sudan
- WFP - MVAM
- Market Assessments by CWG Partners
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- CaLP Network
- Cash Learning Hub
- Programme Quality Toolbox
- CWG South Sudan page on CaLP Network
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