Tech brings new opportunities, risks, and dilemmas. Could the combination of technology and cash bring transformative change and finally make aid more people-centered? What are the risks and what are the opportunities?

Host: Karen Peachey
Guests: Laura Walker and Chris Hoffman

This episode challenges the idea that locally led response and large-scale CVA are incompatible. We explore the myths around local actors and the barriers to further progress.

Host: Karen Peachey

Guests: Ahmed Ibrahim, Chris Hoffman, and Christina Bennet

In this episode we explore accountability issues within the humanitarian system, their root causes and potential solutions. We ask if cash and voucher assistance has a part to play in improving accountability, and what that could look like.

Host: Karen Peachey
Guests: Caroline Teti, Innocent Tshilombo, Meg Sattler, Christina Bennet, and Laura Walker

What does people-centered aid look like in practice, particularly when we think about cash and voucher assistance? What makes people centred aid different or is just a new buzz phrase? Have we been here before?

Host: Karen Peachey
Guests: Innocent Tshilombo, Caroline Teti and Meg Sattler

If cash is going to reach its full potential and transform the humanitarian system, what changes need to happen first?

Host: Karen Peachey
Guests: Meg Sattler and Innocent Tshilombo

Does cash have the potential to help transform the humanitarian system and become better at responding to the needs and preferences of people in crisis?

Host: Karen Peachey
Guest: Christina Bennett

En este episodio exploramos junto a expertos en el tema, cuáles son los desafíos existentes, además de las oportunidades e innovaciones necesarias para que la implementación de los programas de transferencias monetarias (PTM) respondan a las necesidades de las personas en movimiento en la región de las Américas.

Ante este contexto, en este episodio de CashCast nuestro panel de expertos explora una serie de preguntas, que incluyen:

• ¿Cuáles son las soluciones que deben buscar los practicantes humanitarios sobre la combinación de estos dos temas: programas de transferencias monetarias y movilidad humana?
• ¿Cómo las necesidades específicas de las personas en movilidad pueden potenciar la implementación efectiva de los PTM?
• ¿Cuáles son los cambios que debemos ver en el sector humanitario para trascender del uso de las transferencias multipropósito y mejorar el capital de las personas vulnerables?

El anfitrión e invitados son:

• Holly Welcome Radice (anfitriona) – Representante regional – Américas, de la CALP Network.
• Paula Gil Baizan – Consultora independiente.
• Diego Prado - Representante regional adjunto – Américas, de la CALP Network.

¡Le invitamos a escuchar esta fascinante y profunda conversación!

La idea para este episodio de CashCast surgió de nuestro reciente estudio, “¿Los PTM pueden alcanzar a las personas en movimiento? Análisis de los programas de transferencias monetarias en contextos de movilidad humana en las Américas”, comisionado por la CALP Network. Para ampliar más sobre este tema le invitamos a explorar los recursos relacionados a este estudio.

In this episode we explore with experts the topic of humanitarian responses in contexts of human mobility. We discuss the challenges as well as the opportunities and innovations that exist when it comes toto effectively delivering recipient centered CVA in the Americas.

Given this context, this episode of CashCast our panel of experts explores a series of questions, including:

• What are the problems that Cash and Voucher Assistance actors should be resolving around human mobility?
• How can we start to consider different populations according to their distinctive attributes, so that we can provide the most effective solutions?
• What changes are needed in the way that CVA is delivered so that interventions do not inadvertently increase the vulnerability of people on the move?

The host and guests are:

• Holly Welcome Radice (host) – Regional Representative – Americas, the CALP Network.
• Paula Gil Baizan – Independent consultant.
• Lucia Steinberg - Global Cash and Voucher Assistance specialist – Danish Refugee Council.

We invite you to listen in on this fascinating and in-depth conversation.

The idea for this episode of the CashCast emerged from this recent study People are on the move: can the world of CVA keep up? Analysis of the use of CVA in the context of human mobility in the Americas, commissioned by the CALP Network. To learn even more take a look at the study and associated resources (theseinclude a blog post and a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the main findings of the study).

This episode is published along with a Spanish episode that explores this same topic.

The CashCast is an occasional podcast from the CALP Network that looks in depth at the critical debates in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA).