How did cash actors delivering assistance to refugees in Jordan adapt to the COVID-19 crisis? What were the main challenges and did cash actors overcome these? An independent consultant specialising in cash transfers who recently carried out a study for CaLP and outlines their findings.
Cash assistance to vulnerable refugee households has been a central part of the humanitarian response in Jordan for many years. The Covid-19 crisis challenged this provision for both agencies and refugees; it led to a drastic increase in vulnerabilities among refugees and significantly complicating the delivery of cash assistance by humanitarian organisations and access to cash assistance for refugees.
A recent study commissioned by CaLP, the Durable Solutions Platform and CAMEALEON documents and assesses collective learning and decision-making on whether and how cash-based programmes in Jordan, donors and refugees were able to adapt to these previously unforeseen challenges.
