Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) - Ukraine 2024 Response Analysis Snapshot (January to December 2024)

2024 IN SUMMARY

Ukraine remained the world’s largest cash response in 2024 with an estimated USD 668M delivered in support of people in need. This however represented a significant reduction compared to 2023 (USD 1.08Bn) and 2024 (USD 1.49Bn). Reasons link to funding limitations and a growth of the in-kind response assistance, mostly under basic needs. CVA, accounting for 49.6% of the total humanitarian response in 2022, reduced to 33.2% in 2023 and 24.5% in 2022. Over the same period, in-kind assistance increased from 30.1% to 49.2% of the response.

This trend also echos a large reduction in the use of multi-purpose cash assistance (MPC), from 49% of the humanitarian response in 2022 to 25% in 2023 and 11% in 2024. In 2024, a total of 24 CVA activities were implemented in Ukraine, with a diversified portfolio composed of 43.1% of MPC and 56.9% of sectoral CVA, including large winter components. Further fragmentation of the basic needs CVA response was observed in 2024, with 79.6% delivered as a single-transfer (MPC), against 99.4% in 2023 and 100% in 2022.