1. Geneva-based Cash Working Group
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9:30 – 9:40
(1) Introduction and Overview [CaLP / OCHA]
9:40 – 10:30
(2) Global Updates (50 mins)
- CaLP State of the World Cash Report - Update on Launch (CaLP – 5 mins)
- CashCap Theory of Change Update (CashCap – 5 mins)
- GHD task force on cash (Norway – 5 min)
- Update on the Grand Bargain (DFID – 5 min)
- Update on the Global Cluster Task Team (GCCG – 5 min)
- Update on Global Cluster WASH session from Berlin (5 min)
- Update from CaLP Regional Offices (CaLP – 5 mins)
- Overview of upcoming cash based event – calendar planning (CaLP – 5 mins)
- Other Global Updates (All – 10 mins)
10:30 – 10:50
(3) Coffee break (20 mins)
10:50 – 11:10
(4) Update on Global Cash Working Group Mapping Exercise (20 mins) - OCHA
- Cash Working Groups: A Global Snapshot of Linkages and Integration into Existing Humanitarian Architecture
11:10 – 11:30
(5) REACH in Cash-Based Responses (20 mins)
- What are the key challenges in harmonizing price monitoring tools and methodologies among partners, and how can these approaches be systematized at a global level to inform cash-transfer programming?
11:30 – 11:45
(6) Conclusions (15 mins)
- AOB
- Action points
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3. Introduction and Overview (10 mins)

4. Global updates (50 mins)

5. Coffee break (20 mins)

6. Update on global cash working group mapping exercise (20 mins)

7. Geneva-based Cash Working Group
Cash Working Groups: A Global Snapshot of Linkages and Integration into Existing Humanitarian Architecture
Geneva-based Cash Working Group
6 January 2018

8. Cash working groups globally 2017-2018
Active Country Based Cash Working Group
Regional Cash Working Groups
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
CAR
Chad
Colombia
DRC
Ethiopia
Fiji
Haiti
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Kenya
Madagascar
Mali
Mauritania
22. Myanmar
23. Nepal
24. Niger
25. Nigeria
26. Pakistan
27. oPt
28. Philippines
29. Sierra Leone
30. Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Syria/Damascus
Tanzania
Turkey (Syria)/ Turkey (Refugees in Turkey)
Uganda
Ukraine
Yemen
Pacific Regional Working Group (under PHT)
Senegal
Thailand

9. Cash Mapping
How are cash working groups integrated into the humanitarian architecture?
26 crisis crisis-affected countries and three CaLP regional hubs surveyed
GCCG Functional Mapping, Cluster Description Mapping

10. Out of 26 countries who completed our survey, 25 have Cash Working Groups (CWGs) or Technical Working Groups (TWGs) in place.

11. 26 Surveyed countries 25 countries have active cash working groups.
No CWG, not
Exploring
1. Afghanistan
2. Burundi
3. Cameroon
4. CAR
5. Chad
6. Colombia
7. Ethiopia
8. Haiti
9. Iraq
10. Lebanon
11. Libya
12. Mali
13. Myanmar
14. Niger
15. Nigeria
16. Pakistan
17. oPt
18. Philippines
19. Somalia
20. S Sudan
21. Sudan
22. Syria
23. Turkey
24. Ukraine
25. Yemen
26. Cote d’Ivoire
26 Surveyed countries
25 countries have active cash working groups.

12. Overview of CaLP’s Engagement with CWGs in Asia & E.&W. Africa
CaLP East Africa
Engaged with CWGs in: Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Burundi, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Madagascar.
CaLP West Africa
Supports CWGs in: Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, CAR, DRC, Liberia and Mauritania.
CaLP Asia
In Asia, CaLP supports the CWGs in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Philippines.

13. CaLP’s Engagement with Humanitarian Actors & Architecture
CaLP engages with practitioners and the wider humanitarian community through:
Regional working group meetings
Participation in regional IASC meetings
Strengthen coordination support for cash transfer programmes
Strengthen preparedness and response
Regional roadmap for collective endorsement (West Africa)
Support to governments
CaLP engagement is responsive to needs
Technical Support to CWGs:
Supports the development of CWGs
Organizes learning events
Provides technical expertise
Conducts research to aid learning and the establishments of best practices
Facilitates and clarifies TORs
Research

14. Links with coordination architecture
Representation or engagement at a strategic level (HCT)
Seat at the ICCG / Linkage reflected in the CWG TOR
Ad-hoc reporting through
attendees with an HCT/ Inter-Cluster seat
1. Pakistan
2. Yemen
3. Lebanon*
Afghanistan
Burundi
Cameroon
CAR
Chad
Colombia
Ethiopia
Haiti
Iraq**
Libya
Mali
Myanmar
Niger
Nigeria
Philippines
S. Sudan
Syria/Damascus
Turkey
Lebanon*
Ukraine
oPt
Somalia
Sudan

15. Sectoral vs. Multi-Sectoral CWGs
Independent / Multi-Sectoral
(within humanitarian architecture)
Under a Cluster/Sector
Afghanistan Myanmar
2. Burundi Niger
3. Cameroon Nigeria
4. CAR Pakistan
5. Chad Philippines
6. Colombia Somalia
7. Ethiopia South Sudan
8. Haiti Sudan
9. Iraq Turkey
10. Lebanon Ukraine
11. Libya Yemen
12. Mali
1. oPt – Food Security
2. Syria/Damascus – Food Security
3. Lebanon* - Food Security and BN

16. CWG Leadership UN UN + Intl NGO NGO 1. CAR: OCHA (chair)
2. Myanmar: WFP (chair)
3. Niger: OCHA (chair)
4. Pakistan: FAO (chair) + WFP (co-chair)
5. Sudan: WFP + UNHCR
6. Lebanon*: WFP Food Sec/ Basic Needs UNHCR
1. Afghanistan: NRC (chair) + WFP
2. Cameroon: WFP (chair) + IRC
3. Ethiopia: WFP + Oxfam (co-leads) + OCHA
4. Iraq: UNHCR (chair) + Mercy Corps
5. Libya: UNHCR (chair) + Mercy Corps
6. Nigeria: OCHA (chair) + INGO forum
7. South Sudan: WFP (chair) + Dan Church Aid
8. Syria (Damascus): UNRWA (chair) + pending nomination
9. Yemen: Oxfam (chair) + OCHA
1. Chad: Oxfam (chair) + CRS
2. Ukraine: Moving to I/NGO chair + OCHA

17. Local Govt Involved in Leadership
CWG Leadership Contd.
Local Govt Involved in Leadership
UN + Local NGO
Rotating
1. Burundi: Ministry for Human Rights & Social Welfare (chair) + WFP
2. Colombia: See rotating 
3. Mali: Oxfam (chair) + Direction Nationale de la Protection Sociale et de L’Economie Solidaire) + WFP
1. Somalia: WFP (chair) + ADESO
1. Philippines: 4 month rotation, all organizations
2. Colombia: Presidential Agency for Intl Cooperation (APC) + Colombian Red Cross + WFP
3. Turkey: Rotating amongst steering committee Intl NGOs as of Feb 2018

18. Reporting on Cash- Information MGMT
Standard Sectoral Cash Reporting/Multi-Cluster or Multi-Sectoral Cash Broken down
Standard Sectoral Cash Reporting/ Multi-Cluster or Multi-Sectoral Cash Reported Separately
Single Sectoral Cash Reporting, no multi-sectoral reporting.
No Standard Reporting/ Standard Reporting under Development
Afghanistan
Syria/Damascus
Syria/Turkey
Columbia
Chad
Ethiopia
Iraq
Lebanon*
Nigeria
Phillipines*
Somalia*
Ukraine
Haiti
Libya
Mali
Myanmar
Niger
oPT
Pakistan
Yemen
Burundi
CAR - CWG only recently activated.
Cameroon - orgs report their own activities per donor requirements. 3Ws being developed by OCHA.
South Sudan - basic reporting developed by OCHA, rolling out.
Sudan - reporting developed by OCHA, rolling out

19. Overview of IM Support to CWGs
Dedicated IM Support and (Provider)
Ad-hoc IM Support as Needed (Provider)
Lack of IM Support
1. Chad (Food Security Cluster)
2. Haiti (OCHA)
3. Iraq (UNHCR)
4. Libya (UNHCR)
5. Nigeria (OCHA)
6. Pakistan (OCHA)
7. South Sudan (FSL IMO)
8. Syria/Damascus (OCHA + Food Security)
9. Ukraine (OCHA)
1. Afghanistan (OCHA)
2. Burundi (OCHA)
3. Cameroon (OCHA)
4. Colombia Information Management and Analysis Unit (UMAIC)
5. Ethiopia (OCHA)
6. Myanmar (OCHA)
7. Niger (OCHA)
8. Philippines (OCHA)
9. Turkey (OCHA)
10. Yemen (OCHA)
1. CAR*
2. Mali
3. Somalia
4. Sudan

20. Reach in cash-based responses (20 mins)

21. Conclusions (15 mins)