The use of cash assistance in the Covid‐19 humanitarian response
Accelerating Trends and Missed Opportunities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7280499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Lawson‐mcdowall (Technical Advisor CALP Network United Kingdom), Ruth Mccormack (Technical Advisor CALP Network Canada, corresponding author), Sophie Tholstrup (Former Policy Coordinator CALP Network Switzerland) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | S216-S239 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/disa.12524 |
| PMID | 34873732 |
| OpenAlex | W4200390685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
The operational and socioeconomic consequences of Covid‐19 have made cash assistance the global go‐to relief modality, whether through humanitarian or social protection channels. Cash has proven to be an adaptable means of saving lives and supporting livelihoods and mitigating the pandemic's impacts on local economies while giving recipients the flexibility to decide what they require. Many humanitarian organisations have increased the scale of cash programmes, while government‐administered social assistance mechanisms have been utilised on a huge scale. The crisis has bolstered attention on why linkages between social protection and humanitarian cash are important, including how to work together more effectively to enable better coverage of those in need. This paper has been developed with inputs from across the CALP Network. It explores how cash and voucher assistance—with a focus on humanitarian response—has been scaled up or adjusted in response to Covid‐19, and how it is changing ways of working
Agriculture · Business · Cash · Cash transfers · Economic growth · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Government (linguistics · Humanitarian aid · Livelihood · Public economics · Scale (ratio · Social protection · Voucher · COVID-19 impact on air quality · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · International Development and Aid · Finance
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| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |