2. Preparedness
The standards outlined below apply to the Preparedness stage of the programme cycle.
Operational Standards
CVA feasibility and risk assessments and market monitoring are in place pre-crisis.
Key Actions
- Conduct CVA feasibility and risk analysis. Actively explore and build an understanding of safety and security issues related to provision of CVA. Consider whether CVA might create or exacerbate protection risks for different groups and define ways to limit or remove risks that recipients may face.
- Tools
- IFRC/ICRC CiE Toolkit
- Roadmap to Prepare & Analyze (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Primary Data Collection and Analysis (full submodule)
- Key stakeholder matrix template (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Baseline interviews checklist (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- CTP 4Ws matrix template (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Priority needs calculation template (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Baseline market information checklist (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- FSP baseline checklist (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Mapping service providers template (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Roadmap for CTP risk analysis (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- IFRC SOPs Risk management checklist (English); (French); (Spanish)
- Baseline report template (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Advocacy process summary table (English only)
- Is Cash feasible checklist (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Carry out and use a gender analysis to inform cash preparedness by helping to understand
- who in the household the cash should be transferred to
- the specific household and community risks that women, men, boys and girls face in receiving and spending the money
- household decision making dynamics, and
- mobility analysis including markets access.
- Specific Gender/GBV Tools
- Analyse and monitor important markets in pre-crisis situation to monitor fluctuations in market functionality (price, access, demand, supply quantities, and market competition and integration)
- Tools
- IFRC/ICRC CiE Toolkit – Baseline market information checklist (English); (French); (Spanish); (Arabic)
- Tools
- Map and put in place formal agreements with the institutions charged with the responsibility of providing complementary social protection services
- Tools
- Identify appropriate cash modalities (e.g. conditional, including cash for work, unconditional, restricted unrestricted or multi-purpose cash) and identify appropriate delivery mechanisms (e.g. mobile money, cash-in-hand, paper or e-voucher, etc.) for the emergency response scenarios being considered. Delivery mechanisms must adress the issues identified during the gender analysis.
- Identify and sign framework agreements with service providers (e-voucher provider, FSP or traders).
- Tools
- IFRC/ICRC CiE Toolkit
- IFRC/ICRC Market Analysis Guidance
- CARE
- CARE Turkey procurement documents
- Vendor Questionnaire Form
- Financial offer Form
- Technical Offer Form
- Technical Specification and conditions
- For E-Vouchers: Mercy Corps E-Transfer Implementation Guide
- Develop context specific CVA SOPs
- CARE examples
- Myanmar : CARE Int Myanmar_SOP for CVA_August 2021_final draft
- Uganda : CASH TRANSFER SOP mail-10_46_3.pdf
- Turkey: SOP-Inkind- CARE-2022-13_50_54.pdf
- Turkey: SOP Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance
- CARE examples
Operational Standards
CVA is included in implementing partner’s capacity assessments and CARE’s own capacity is assessed
Key Actions
- Appoint a CVA focal point and train them on promising practices; in the absence of a country-level focal point, identify regional or global support within CARE.
For SRHR programming: also appoint a SRHR focal point- CARE
- Sample job description for CVA focal point or team member
- CARE
- Assess CARE and its partners organisational capacity to use CVA, discuss CVA literacy during annual appraisal.
For SRHR programming: Health providers’, community focal points’ capacity has also to be considered in the capacity building plan- CARE
- IFRC/ICRC CiE Toolkit
- CALP
- Build CARE and partner staff awareness of diversity within gender groups and how this diversity may affect recipients’ experience of the project and its (intended or unintended) impacts. Explore the assumptions and generalizations held about various gender groups.
Build the capacity of all staff implementing programmes with CVA in gender-sensitive CVA. To this end, recall:- The contribution of gender-sensitive CVA to the empowerment of women and girls;
- The programmatic impact of gender-sensitive CVA.
- Conduct systematic training on the gender-related protection aspects of CVA, including PSEA and GBV, and how they can be affected or influenced by CVA.
- Tools
- Pre-position any hardware you need for transfers, based on the modality or the delivery mechanism identified (e.g. printed vouchers, e-voucher cards, SIM cards for mobile money, mobile phone handsets, loadable ATM e-cash cards, fingerprint scanners, Point of Service payment devices, etc).