Updates on usage of the Cash Champion Initiative as part of the GSC CWG, produced by CRS
Upon request of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Principals at their meeting on December 11, 2015, the World Bank agreed to coordinate a process of reviewing key issues and options for significantly scaling up the use of multipurpose cash transfers (MPCTs; including digital cash and vouchers) in the humanitarian space. This note lays out the main findings and options emerging from...
The Shelter and Cash Working Group was started in 2015 to work on the preparation of the GSC position paper and to conduct the shelter/cash literature review. Since then – and with support from the GSC ECHO grant in 2017/18 – the CWG has worked on a number of priority areas under the banner of the ‘cash champions’ initiatives. These activities include;
Ongoing intiativies and focal points can be found by clicking this link.
To share your agencies' activities, please contact renee.wynveen@sheltercluster.org.
The working group is chaired by Habitat for Humanity with participating agencies including IFRC, UNHCR, IOM, NRC, CRS, Save the Children, CARE, ShelterBox, ICRC and the IFRC -SRU
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