Reporting requirements on Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA)

Dear colleagues,

To support the effective and standardized operational tracking of cash and voucher assistance (CVA), a template with recommended standard and optional reporting requirements for sectoral CVA (accessible directly via the link: https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/topics/cash-transfer-programming/document/3w-template-hxl-cash) was developed, in collaboration between the Global Clusters Coordination Group and our Global Clusters IM focal points. The template refers to inter-sectoral operational reporting requirements and does not affect the additional data required by clusters for their internal use.   

We realize that that 3W template is probably not the one you are using in your own contexts. We therefore would like to ask you to integrate the CVA related columns (highlighted in yellow) in the template you are currently using. This will allow for sectoral CVA programming to be reported via the relevant cluster/sector, in line with existing processes for tracking in-kind assistance.

The columns should be more or less self-explanatory. We nevertheless included a couple of clarifications below. If you have any questions on how best to integrate the CVA columns in your templates, please get in touch with Andre (andurr@unicef.org) or Shabib (salqobati@unicef.org).

Notes:

Column G – modality.

• ‘Cash’ refers to the provision of money (physical currency or electronic cash) to targeted recipients (individuals, households or communities).
• Example: provision of money to at-risk groups to purchase nutritious foods or pay for transportation to access health services
• What is not ‘cash’: payment of incentives or per diems for volunteers or community health workers, grants to health facilities or schools
• ‘Voucher’ can be provided in paper or electronically and can be exchanged for a set quantity or value of goods or services, denominated either as a cash value (e.g. $15) or predetermined commodities (e.g. 5 kg maize) or specific services (e.g. milling of 5 kg of maize), or a combination of value and commodities.
• Example: Value vouchers (worth $15) to purchase fresh foods in preselected shops
• Where projects include multiple modalities, it is recommended that one row is used per modality.

Column H – conditionality:

• Conditionality refers to prerequisite activities or obligations that a recipient must fulfil in order to receive assistance.
• The most common conditionalities in nutrition programming related to participation in SBCC interventions or attendance to health services.