Cash in a COVID-19 Crisis: Adapting Approaches to Assisting Jordan-based Refugees - Blog Post

Author(s)
Dürr, A.
Publication language
English
Pages
1pp
Date published
05 Apr 2021
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Cash-based transfers (CBT), Children & youth, Development & humanitarian aid, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, Forced displacement and migration, Host Communities, Refugee Camps, Gender, Innovation, Livelihoods, Protection, Social protection, Syria crisis
Countries
Syria, Jordan
Link
https://www.calpnetwork.org/blog/cash-in-covid19-crisis-adapting-approaches-jordan/

How did cash actors delivering assistance to refugees in Jordan adapt to the COVID-19 crisis? What were the main challenges and did cash actors overcome these? An independent consultant specialising in cash transfers who recently carried out a study for CaLP and outlines their findings.

Cash assistance to vulnerable refugee households has been a central part of the humanitarian response in Jordan for many years. The Covid-19 crisis challenged this provision for both agencies and refugees; it led to a drastic increase in vulnerabilities among refugees and significantly complicating the delivery of cash assistance by humanitarian organisations and access to cash assistance for refugees.  

A recent study commissioned by CaLP, the Durable Solutions Platform and CAMEALEON documents and assesses collective learning and decision-making on whether and how cash-based programmes in Jordan, donors and refugees were able to adapt to these previously unforeseen challenges. 

Authors: 
CaLP Network