Technical Advisor, CALP Network, United Kingdom.
Technical Advisor, CALP Network, Canada.
Disasters. 2021 Dec;45 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S216-S239. doi: 10.1111/disa.12524. Epub 2021 Dec 7.
The operational and socioeconomic consequences of Covid-19 have made cash assistance the global go-to relief modality, whether through humanitarian or social protection channels. Cash has proven to be an adaptable means of saving lives and supporting livelihoods and mitigating the pandemic's impacts on local economies while giving recipients the flexibility to decide what they require. Many humanitarian organisations have increased the scale of cash programmes, while government-administered social assistance mechanisms have been utilised on a huge scale. The crisis has bolstered attention on why linkages between social protection and humanitarian cash are important, including how to work together more effectively to enable better coverage of those in need. This paper has been developed with inputs from across the CALP Network. It explores how cash and voucher assistance-with a focus on humanitarian response-has been scaled up or adjusted in response to Covid-19, and how it is changing ways of working.
新冠疫情在运营和社会经济方面造成的影响，使得现金援助成为全球首选的救济模式，无论是通过人道主义还是社会保护渠道。事实证明，现金是一种灵活的救命和维持生计的手段，同时还可以减轻大流行病对地方经济的影响，让受援者灵活决定自己的需求。许多人道主义组织扩大了现金方案的规模，同时大规模利用了政府管理的社会援助机制。这场危机使人们更加关注社会保护与人道主义现金之间联系的重要性，包括如何更有效地共同努力，以便更好地覆盖有需要的人。本文是在整个 CALP 网络的投入下开发的。它探讨了现金和代金券援助（重点是人道主义应对）如何根据新冠疫情进行扩大或调整，以及它如何改变工作方式。
