The Cash Barometer launched in CAR in 2020 in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, where we sought to capture the voices of market traders and CVA recipients in the context of the developing crisis. Since then, CVA significantly scaled up in CAR, making it even more critical than ever to ensure the voices of CVA recipients are heard.

Global claims of improved accountability in humanitarian action are not often supported by evidence. That’s why we work with humanitarian actors in CAR who are aiming to improve accountability to affected populations, by tracking and sharing the views of people receiving aid.

Covid-19 has sparked an economic crisis that will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable members of society, particularly in humanitarian contexts. The Cash Barometer project explores its economic impact, helping humanitarians to better understand its various effects, as well as to what extent recipients’ perspectives inform cash and voucher assistance (CVA) responses, on two levels: global and in-country.

In the Central African Republic (CAR), Ground Truth Solutions has worked with UNICEF to track the perceptions of affected communities and other key actors on the humanitarian response to Covid-19.