Data responsibility in cash and voucher assistance

As digital tools become more central in the delivery of cash and voucher assistance (CVA), humanitarian organisations, financial service providers, and other stakeholders gather, store, use, and share increasingly large volumes of data. These trends have been accelerated in the response to COVID-19, for which cash actors have scaled up and adapted their CVA programmes in line with the particular challenges posed by the pandemic, with a preference toward contact-less electronic or mobile payments to reduce the risk of transmission.