RESOURCES
Cash in Conflict
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) has several significant benefits that are well known, including increasing people’s dignity, power, autonomy and choice in how they manage their survival and recovery. CVA can also offer greater operational flexibility and achieve wider social and economic multiplier effects beyond its specific purpose.
Cash is used by people to pay for goods and services all around the world. This fact does not change in situations of armed conflict, when having cash in their hands can be mean the difference between life and death.
The ICRC – who have 16,800 staff in over 80 countries, helping people affected by armed conflict and violence – is enthusiastic about the benefits of CVA and realistic about when it is best to use it. Our experience and evidence shows that cash is an essential tool in humanitarian action in armed conflict, and our own operational analysis confirms many of the positive findings from other policy and academic studies.
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This section of the Cash Hub aims to share the experience of the ICRC and of those Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies working in countries affected by conflict and other situations of violence.
Read the latest report below to find out more about the ICRC’s experience of using CVA in armed conflict
Key Resources
30 January 2024
Voices from Yemen: Yahya’s story
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British Red Cross, ICRC, Yemen Red CrescentIn Yemen, the situation has worsened because of rising food and basic commodity prices and loss of money and livelihoods – resulting from the conflict that erupted in the country.…
30 January 2024
Voices from Yemen: Ahmed’s story
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Case studyOrganization:
British Red Cross, ICRC, Yemen Red CrescentIn Yemen, the situation has worsened because of rising food and basic commodity prices and loss of money and livelihoods – resulting from the conflict that erupted in the country.…
18 January 2024
Yemen: When conflict comes with disaster or disease, cash assistance can save lives
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IFRCCash assistance helps 62-year-old Khamisa support her family and pay for life-saving medication; read this article from IFRC to find out more about how cash assistance has helped communities in…
11 January 2024
ICRC Economic Security: supporting income & markets in conflict-affected communities
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ICRC, ICRCFunctioning market systems are a critical enabler for all forms of economic activity, providing essential goods and services during times of crisis. In recent years, EcoSec teams have strengthened their…
21 August 2023
Key learnings from applying the CVAP methodology in fragile contexts: The case of Yemen
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Cash Hub, ICRCThis case study looks at National Society CVA preparedness, taking key learnings from applying the CVAP methodology in fragile contexts in the case of Yemen. This case study is a…
13 April 2023
Cash Assistance in Yemen: Mohammed and Nima’s stories
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British Red Cross, Danish Red Cross, Yemen Red CrescentCash assistance is considered one of the most effective way of addressing the variety of needs of affected people, as it promotes the freedom to choose and determine their own…
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