Background
Market-based programming (MBP) and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) are becoming a central aspect of the humanitarian response, including for the WASH sector. To accompany WASH partners in this transition, the Global WASH Cluster (GWC) with support of the German WASH Network has released a positioning paper on cash and market, and set up a technical working group (TWIG) at global level to provide expertise and guidelines on Market and Cash for WASH. The GWC has also identified weaknesses among WASH practitioners in terms of both knowledge and practices of the market and cash intervention modalities. Consequently, the GWC has included MBP and CVA as one of the priority topics in its capacity building strategy. Although strong training packages on cash transfer have been already by the Cash learning project (CaLP) and humanitarian organization, these trainings remain largely multi-sectorial, rarely address market support as well as CVA. To address this gap, the GWC has developed a specific training designed for WASH practitioners, inspired from CaLP’s Core Cash Transfer Programming for Programme Staff training.
Objective
Build the capacity of WASH practitioners and sector coordinators to evaluate the relevancy and use of market-based approaches (including CVA) to achieve WASH outcomes.