Cash and voucher assistance has become a mainstream way of delivering humanitarian and social protection support, giving people choice and supporting local markets. It also changes the risk profile of an organisation. Large volumes of small payments, new third-party providers and digital identity data create exposure that traditional procurement-based financial controls were never built to handle.

The Financial Management for Cash & Voucher Assistance Training Course equips finance and programme teams to run these transfers with discipline. Participants follow the money from budget to final reconciliation: costing the programme, agreeing transfer values, contracting providers, authorising payments, tracking redemption and closing the books. Along the way they examine the controls that matter most, including separation of targeting, registration, approval and payment roles, verification of recipients and the safe handling of personal data.

The course is built around practical records. Participants analyse payment files, provider invoices and reconciliations to find errors and unusual patterns, and they draft control procedures and a reporting template that satisfy typical donor requirements. By the end each participant has a financial control framework suited to their own programme.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Prepare budgets for cash and voucher programmes that distinguish transfer values from delivery and support costs.
• Set transfer values using a minimum expenditure basket and market data.
• Evaluate and contract financial service providers on cost, reach and control capacity.
• Design payment authorisation procedures with clear segregation of duties.
• Reconcile payment lists, provider statements and voucher redemptions accurately.
• Identify fraud, diversion and duplication risks and apply preventive and detective controls.
• Maintain audit trails and manage beneficiary data securely.
• Produce donor-compliant financial reports and manage cost eligibility.

The course is suited to those who finance, deliver or assure cash-based programmes, including:

• Finance officers and programme accountants in NGOs
• Grants and donor compliance managers
• Cash and voucher assistance coordinators
• Humanitarian programme managers
• Internal auditors and risk officers
• Monitoring and accountability staff
• Social protection and safety-net programme officers in government
• Logistics and procurement staff supporting voucher schemes
• Financial service provider account managers working with humanitarian clients

Participants leave with:

• A cash programme budget template that separates transfer and operating costs.
• A payment process map showing authorisation points and control owners.
• A reconciliation workbook for payment files and provider statements.
• A fraud risk register tailored to cash and voucher modalities.
• A checklist for selecting and monitoring financial service providers.
• A donor financial report outline that evidences cost eligibility.

Content is grounded in the realities of field finance. Participants take part in:

• Facilitated sessions led by practitioners of humanitarian finance
• Reconciliation labs using sample mobile money and bank data
• Field scenario discussions on targeting disputes and diversion
• Template building for budgets, controls and reports
• Group presentations reviewed against donor expectations

Delegates who attend all sessions and complete the exercises receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.