Strengthening cash assistance in response to COVID-19

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, the humanitarian community has been adapting their response to make it more effective and efficient. The Grand Bargain workstream on increasing the use and coordination of cash-based programming has pivoted quickly and flexibly to support the global response to COVID-19, and developed two papers to reflect what is being done:

• A 1-pager on linking humanitarian cash with national social protection systems from the sub-workstream on humanitarian cash and social protection
• A 2-pager from the cash and gender sub-workstream on the importance of cash transfers in gender sensitive response to COVID-19