📋 Tender Overview
CashCap is a specialized roster of experienced experts who, along with strong technical cash and markets background, bring soft diplomacy and coordination skills. CashCap’s experts are deployed to inter-agency roles involving coordination, technical support, capacity building and advocacy. Their approach is host-agency neutral, impartial, and grounded in best practice and operational evidence.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Emergency Relief and Protection
Humanitarian efficiency
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
CHF 700’000
The project in brief
Background The increasing reliance on Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) in humanitarian aid has transformed the sector, making up over 23% of global humanitarian spending in 2023, with potential growth to 30-50%. Additionally, the growing protracted nature of crises necessitates better linkage and complementarity between humanitarian cash and national social protection systems. The adoption of the IASC-endorsed cash coordination model emphasizes the need for enhanced inter-agency collaboration and localized leadership. These developments continue to challenge and stretch the limits of the current humanitarian system. While progress has been made, significant gaps remain in neutral operational capacity, mentorship, and integration with national social protection systems. CashCap addresses these deficits through its impartial, demand-driven, and context-specific approach.
Objectives Strengthen coordination and technical capacity for CVA in contexts, where CashCap capacity is utilized, with specific focus on local leadership in the response.
Target groups All humanitarian practitioners, development actors, donors, the private sector, host governments.
Medium-term outcomes hrough CashCap experts’ effort, local, national, humanitarian and development actors’ capacity to design, implement and coordinate cash and market-based response is enhanced. Where deployed, CashCap experts’ work contributes to:
Supporting transition and functioning to the IASC cash coordination model in collaboration with the global CAG, through placements of cash and markets experts in contexts based on needs and partners’ demand.
Strengthened capacity of national actors for effective design, delivery and coordination leadership of interventions using CVA as a modality.
Results Expected results:
Provide coordination and technical advisory expertise for major crises, scale-ups, and initiatives with high potential impact, as well as remaining engaged with the global Cash and Markets Advisory Group (CAG) and relevant task teams, focusing on resourcing and engaging local actors.
Support CVA organizational capacity development of national and local actors and advocacy to enable locally sensitive and locally led CVA design, implementation and coordination.
Results from previous phases:
Deployments: In 2023, CashCap deployed 48 experts across 29 countries and regions. 41% of all active Cash Working Groups globally rel
