Cash and Voucher Assistance

Crisis

What does cash and voucher assistance (CVA) look like, particularly in emergency and crisis contexts?

With elements of CVA often being built on assumptions rather than on evidence, CARE has identified the need to draw on the voices of women, girls, men, and boys in order to respond to this question. CARE is committed to ensuring that CVA projects are focused on women and girls, addressing their needs, challenges, and opportunities.

CARE’s research on its CVA programming identified six critical recommendations.

CVA that works for women is:

Sensitive to women and girls
Not only designed for them, but most importantly, with them
Based on robust analysis
Designed to sustainably transform roles and relations
Designed to increase their ability to manage their finances in the long term
Designed to protect them

In 2024, CARE and our partners reached 573,777 people via CVA.

In 2024, CARE transferred 136.7 million USD directly to participants.

Programs

CARE Package Cash

A short-term influx of cash can make a meaningful difference in the lives of families struggling to survive from the economic impact of a protracted crisis or from the shock of a natural disaster.

Online Training: Cash and Voucher Assistance and Violence Against Women and Girls

The Cash and Voucher Assistance and Violence Against Women and Girls online training is a six-week facilitated course targeting protection and specialists who are planning to or are encouraged to use CVA in their program to deliver their responses.