MENA Regional Event: Linking Social Protection & Humanitarian Cash Assistance
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated longstanding efforts to better link social protection and humanitarian CVA. The devastating economic impacts of the crisis have led governments worldwide to massively scale up social protection and, in turn, humanitarian actors are increasingly working alongside governments to support these national safety-nets. But in many crisis-affected countries, social protection systems are weak and under-funded, with limited coverage. In others still, many of those worst-affected – migrants, refugees and other marginalised groups – are not included. CaLP’s State of the World’s Cash report finds that more than half of practitioners agree that a lack of coordination
