Cash and Voucher Assitance Training - July 2025
The Caribbean Gender Alliance, in partnership with CARE International, successfully hosted a training on CaLP Core Cash and Voucher Assistance Skills for Programme Staff which aimed to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence of humanitarian practitioners for cash and voucher assistance (CVA) technical design and quality.
This 4 day training, July 8th – July 11th 2025, was hosted at the Bay Gardens Inn, St. Lucia and brought together 13 countries from across the region (Antigua & Barbuda
, The Bahamas
, Barbados
, Belize
, Dominica
, Grenada
, Guyana
, Jamaica
, Saint Kitts & Nevis
, Saint Lucia
, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
, Suriname
, and Trinidad & Tobago
).
The CVA training, facilitated by CaLP Network Certified, Sahara Dahir Ibrahim (of Kenya 
), allowed participants to learn different CVA distribution mechanisms and discuss the opportunities and challenges to delivering high quality CVA as part of humanitarian response, use various assessments, including market assessment tools, to inform CVA appropriateness, analyze assessment data to choose modality, delivery mechanism and transfer value and learned methods to ensure accountability towards affected populations during the CVA design and implementation process.
The Caribbean Gender Alliance would like to thank all the training participants and their affiliated organizations, CALP and CARE International for aiding in this trainings success.
