Cash and voucher assistance now makes up a large share of humanitarian and social protection spending, and every transfer passes through a web of rules. Donors set eligibility and audit conditions, central banks and financial regulators govern who may move money, and data protection law shapes what can be collected about recipients. Programmes that overlook these layers face frozen payments, disallowed costs and harm to the people they serve. Five days give practitioners a structured way to find, interpret and apply the rules that bind their operations.
You examine national social protection policy, cash coordination structures and the Minimum Expenditure Basket, then work through anti-money laundering, know-your-customer, sanctions and counter-terrorism financing obligations that reach financial service providers and NGOs. Sessions cover mobile money and e-voucher regulation, procurement of financial service providers, targeting and registration policy, and biometric and personal data safeguards. The programme is for cash working group members, programme and finance managers, compliance officers, social protection staff and government officials in NGOs, UN agencies, donor teams and ministries. It runs in class, online or in-house with a CPD-accredited certificate. Afterwards you can produce a compliance map and an internal cash policy for your own programme.
Few areas of aid have changed as quickly as cash transfers. What began as small pilots now runs at national scale through mobile wallets, prepaid cards, banks and government social registries. That growth has brought scrutiny from donors, auditors and regulators, and organisations that deliver cash without a firm grasp of the governing frameworks risk delayed payments, rejected expenditure and breaches of recipient privacy.
This programme takes participants through the policy and regulatory landscape layer by layer. It begins with global and national policy positions on cash, the role of governments, clusters and cash working groups, and the alignment of humanitarian cash with social protection systems. It then turns to the legal and compliance duties that surround payment delivery: financial sector licensing, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, counter-terrorism clauses in grant agreements, tax treatment and the contractual obligations placed on financial service providers. A full day is given to data protection, consent, data sharing between agencies and the ethical handling of biometric information.
Teaching is built around real policy texts, sample donor agreements and anonymised programme scenarios. Participants analyse clauses, resolve conflicts between rules and draft policy language they can adapt for their own organisations. By the final session each person holds a compliance matrix, a risk register for cash delivery and an outline policy ready to take to senior management.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Participants leave with practical tools they can use straight away:
Learning is anchored in documents and decisions that practitioners meet in real programmes. Methods include:
Day 1: The Policy Landscape for Cash and Vouchers
Day 2: Donor Rules and Grant Compliance
Day 3: Financial Sector Regulation
Day 4: Data Protection, Targeting and Registration
Day 5: Linking to Social Protection and Writing Policy
The programme suits people who design, fund, regulate or audit cash-based aid, including:
Participants who attend the full programme and complete the practical exercises are awarded a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion by Vision Reach Global Consultancy, recognising their grounding in the rules that govern cash and voucher assistance.
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By the end of the Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Cash & Voucher Assistance programme, you'll be able to explain how global and national policy positions shape cash and voucher assistance, map the regulatory requirements that apply to a programme in a given country and delivery channel, interpret donor conditions, grant clauses and counter-terrorism provisions affecting transfers, and apply know-your-customer, anti-money laundering and sanctions screening requirements to recipient registration and payment. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The programme suits people who design, fund, regulate or audit cash-based aid, including: Cash and voucher programme managers and coordinators, Cash working group and cluster coordination staff, Compliance, legal and risk officers in NGOs and UN agencies, Finance managers and grants officers handling transfer budgets, Social protection officers in ministries and county or district governments, Donor programme officers and humanitarian advisers, Data protection and information management officers, Internal and external auditors reviewing aid programmes, and Staff of mobile money operators and banks serving aid agencies.
Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Cash & Voucher Assistance Training Course typically runs as 5 Days. It's available as in-person classroom, live virtual, and in-house corporate training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Cash & Voucher Assistance Training Course is scheduled in-classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Cash & Voucher Assistance starts October 26, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Cash & Voucher Assistance Training Course from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Cash & Voucher Assistance Training Course is pitched at intermediate professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Cash & Voucher Assistance Training Course vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — Policy and Regulatory Frameworks for Cash & Voucher Assistance Training Course can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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