CASH AND VOUCHER ASSISTANCE: 14 million children and their families supported with cash and voucher assistance to ensure families can invest in their children's wellbeing including by increasing access to nutritious foods, as well as preventative and treatment health and nutrition services

With the overarching goal of positioning Save the Children as the leading actor in Cash Plus for Child Outcomes, our target will be to grow our Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) Portfolio, as well as influence government-led social protection schemes (eg, child grants) to be more nutrition and child sensitive and more inclusive of children most affected by inequality and discrimination. Evidence shows that CVA is a powerful instrument in achievement of positive child outcomes, especially when coupled with complementary interventions or access to services. Save the Children will conduct the following activities:

• Support families to improve and protect their livelihoods and investments in children, especially those most affected by climate change.

• Advance global evidence on using cash and voucher assistance and climate-resilient livelihoods for child outcomes and anticipatory action, with a focus on gender equality.

• Increase global investment in cash-plus assistance to meet immediate humanitarian needs and/or for shock-responsive and child-sensitive social protection.

• Advocate for national or international policy, legal and budget decisions to strengthen child-sensitive social protection systems, including transitioning from humanitarian CVA within fragile and/or conflict-affected contexts.