Summary
Cash and Voucher Assistance can help humanitarian logisticians deliver more climate-smart, resilient, and potentially lower-carbon responses by supporting anticipatory action, recovery, and adaptation while strengthening local markets and community choice.
Content
Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) is increasingly recognised as a powerful tool for responding to climate-related crises while potentially reducing the environmental footprint of humanitarian aid. The report highlights how cash can support anticipatory action, strengthen resilience, enable climate adaptation, and work alongside social protection systems to help communities prepare for and recover from shocks more effectively. For humanitarian logisticians, it reinforces the need to integrate a climate lens into programme design, market analysis, preparedness planning, and supply chain decisions, ensuring that assistance is both people-centred and environmentally sustainable.
