Resources

Social Protection

Access to adequate social protection, especially cash transfers where these are appropriate, is essential at times of crisis. Learn about the work of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement in this field, accessing different resources related to cash and social protection below.

Linking, building on, or aligning humanitarian cash responses with national social protection programmes and systems, where feasible and appropriate, can contribute to an efficient and effective response and achieve lasting results. COVID-19 national responses are accelerating this trend using cash as their preferred support modality for social assistance.

If you have any questions related to CVA you can contact the Cash Helpdesk, which provides remote technical advice to staff or volunteers of the Movement

© Turkish Red Crescent

19 August 2024

Articulating RCRC Movement experience and models of collaboration – Cash and Voucher Assistance and Social Protection in Türkiye, Ukraine, Kenya

Type:

Learning

Organization:

Cash Hub, Kenya Red Cross Society, Turkish Red Crescent (Türk Kızılay), Ukrainian Red Cross Society

This document intends to support National Society strategic and operational decision-making. It provides three simple collaboration models and several roles and entry points for National Societies to consider in their…

  • Social Protection
  • Emergencies

2 May 2024

Mainstreaming Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI) when using digital self-enrolment methods for Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA)

Type:

Tip sheet

Organization:

Cash Hub

This tipsheet provides guidance to National Societies on mainstreaming protection, gender and inclusion (PGI) when using digital self-enrolment methods in Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). This tipsheet complements the Minimum…

  • Social Protection

17 November 2022

Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN): Social assistance for refugees in Türkiye

Type:

Learning

Organization:

Turkish Red Crescent (Türk Kızılay)

This fact sheet provides an overview on the implementation of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme for social assistance to refugees in Türkiye since its inception

  • Cash in Turkiye
  • Social Protection

19 October 2022

Feasibility Study on the potential use of Cash-based Social Protection Systems for floods in Bangladesh

Type:

Report

Organization:

Anticipation Hub, Bangladesh Red Crescent, Climate Center, German Red Cross

This report examines the feasibility of integrating cash-based shock-responsive social protection programmes (SRSP) within flood contingency plans in Bangladesh. The study has explored how national social protection (SP) programmes can…

  • Anticipatory Action
  • Social Protection
  • Emergencies

11 October 2022

PGI-Sensitive CVA Checklist

Type:

Tool

This checklist, developed by the IFRC and Africa Community of Practice to provide a checklist of PGI requirements for programming using CVA, can be used as a tool to ensure…

  • Social Protection

27 June 2022

Lessons Learned on Cash and Voucher Assistance in the Greece Refugee Response

Type:

Learning

Organization:

Hellenic Red Cross

Document summarising key lessons from the Greece refugee response that can inform the potential use of CVA at scale for the Ukraine crisis, including useful technical learning from the early…

  • Social Protection
  • Cash in conflict
  • Emergencies
  • Migration

In partnership with:

British Red Cross