Cash & voucher assistance and gender-based violence compendium

The purpose of this cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and gender-based violence (GBV) compendium is to assist humanitarian actors and crisis- and conflict-affected communities to:

• Integrate GBV risk mitigation into CVA interventions.
• Integrate GBV prevention into multi-sector programming using CVA when appropriate.
• Integrate CVA into GBV prevention and response when appropriate.

The compendium highlights key considerations, essential actions, promising practices and lessons learned to help humanitarian practitioners work with affected people and communities to identify and monitor GBV risks and mitigation measures throughout the programme cycle. The compendium gives examples of the potentially beneficial outcomes of using CVA alongside other assistance and services to contribute to preventing or responding to GBV.

The compendium is intended as a companion to the 2015 Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action (hereafter referred to as the GBV Guidelines). Other companion resources include the GBV Pocket Guide. The GBV Guidelines focus on GBV risk mitigation activities that should be undertaken within and across all sectors of humanitarian response, while the compendium focuses on practical guidance in terms of GBV risk mitigation for all humanitarian actors using CVA.

The compendium can also be used as an advocacy tool to remind all field-based practitioners, managers and coordinators about their responsibility for integrating GBV risk mitigation across CVA and sectoral programming.