Tipsheet: cash and voucher assistance and COVID-19

Pages
4 pp
Date published
21 Mar 2020
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Cash-based transfers (CBT), Epidemics & pandemics, Health
Organisations
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

This tipsheet serves as guidance to help field teams think through different ways:

  1. to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 through ongoing Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA);
  2. inform the adaptation of CVA in the context of COVID-19;
  3. promote sensitivity to evolving markets dynamics.

This tipsheet is inspired by the “Shield & Sword strategy” developed to tackle previous outbreaks such as cholera.

The primary objective at this stage of the pandemic is the SHIELD: measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The next version of this tipsheet will expand more on how CVA can contribute to early measures to address the impact of COVID-19 (eg: for healthcare, loss of lives & livelihoods)