CashCast: A podcast from the CALP Network

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This occasional podcast from the CALP Network looks in depth at the critical debates in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA). If you would like to take part or suggest topics for future episodes, get in touch at [email protected]. CALP is a global partnership of humanitarian actors engaged in policy, practice and research in CVA. 

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Series 2 - Episode - 6-Will New Technologies Help Deliver More and Better Cash?

Dec 06 2023 30 mins  
Tech brings new opportunities, risks, and dilemmas. Could the combination of technology and cash bring transformative change and finally make aid more people-centered? What are the risks and what are the opportunities?Host: Karen PeacheyGuests: Laura Walker and Chris Hoffman

Series 2 - Episode - 5-Is Large-scale Cash Compatible with Locally Led Response?

Dec 06 2023 22 mins  
This episode challenges the idea that locally led response and large-scale CVA are incompatible. We explore the myths around local actors and the barriers to further progress. Host: Karen PeacheyGuests: Ahmed Ibrahim, Chris Hoffman, and Christina Bennet

Series 2 - Episode - 4-Can Cash Make the Humanitarian System More Accountable?

Dec 06 2023 25 mins  
In this episode we explore accountability issues within the humanitarian system, their root causes and potential solutions. We ask if cash and voucher assistance has a part to play in improving accountability, and what that could look like. Host: Karen PeacheyGuests: Caroline Teti, Innocent Tshilombo, Meg Sattler, Christina Bennet, and Laura Walker

Series 2 - Episode - 3-Is Cash the Key to More People Centred Aid?

Dec 06 2023 25 mins  
What does people-centered aid look like in practice, particularly when we think about cash and voucher assistance? What makes people centred aid different or is just a new buzz phrase? Have we been here before? Host: Karen PeacheyGuests: Innocent Tshilombo, Caroline Teti and Meg Sattler

Series 2 - Episode - 2-Cash – How Can We Unlock its Real Potential?

Dec 06 2023 26 mins  
If cash is going to reach its full potential and transform the humanitarian system, what changes need to happen first? Host: Karen PeacheyGuests: Meg Sattler and Innocent Tshilombo

Series 2 - Episode 1-Can Cash Change the Humanitarian System?

Dec 06 2023 24 mins  
Does cash have the potential to help transform the humanitarian system and become better at responding to the needs and preferences of people in crisis? Host: Karen PeacheyGuest: Christina Bennett

Las transferencias monetarias: alcanzando a las personas en movimiento en las Américas

Sep 29 2022 46 mins  
En este episodio exploramos junto a expertos en el tema, cuáles son los desafíos existentes, además de las oportunidades e innovaciones necesarias para que la implementación de los programas de transferencias monetarias (PTM) respondan a las necesidades de las personas en movimiento en la región de las Américas. Ante este contexto, en este episodio de CashCast nuestro panel d

CVA: catching up with people on the move in the Americas

Sep 29 2022 36 mins  
In this episode we explore with experts the topic of humanitarian responses in contexts of human mobility. We discuss the challenges as well as the opportunities and innovations that exist when it comes toto effectively delivering recipient centered CVA in the Americas. Given this context, this episode of CashCast our panel of experts explores a series of questions, including: What

Episode 7: How can we use cash and voucher assistance to support universal health goals?

Jun 28 2022 32 mins  
In episode 7, we discuss how health needs, and the provision of health services, in humanitarian response works and where using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) may help. What we know already is that CVA may be used for health outcomes but giving cash via Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) via the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) isn’t enough to meet health needs. We look at b

Episode 6: Are we ready to use cash and voucher assistance to prepare for crises in Latin America and the Caribbean?

May 04 2022 20 mins  
According to UNOCHA, between 2000 and 2019, 152 million people in Latin America and Caribbean were affected by 1,200 disasters that impacted the region. Furthermore, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently cited that extreme poverty in the region grew by 86 million people in 2021 because of the deepening social and health crises. Given this cont