{"id":244,"date":"2017-11-30T12:40:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/?p=244"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T12:40:32","slug":"meeting-refugees-basic-needs-thanks-to-cash-assistance-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/meeting-refugees-basic-needs-thanks-to-cash-assistance-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting refugees&#8217; basic needs thanks to Cash Assistance in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the Greece Cash Alliance (GCA) is a partnership between UNHCR and five international NGOs, provided monthly cash assistance to more than 33,000 refugees and asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_245\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/11\/RF2138489_IMG_9894-720x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/11\/RF2138489_IMG_9894-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/11\/RF2138489_IMG_9894-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2017\/11\/RF2138489_IMG_9894.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brahim (left) with his wife Halima and their six kids from Syria show the cash card they just received from UNHCR and its partners.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to an harmonized cash programme, refugees and asylum seekers who qualify for cash assistance are issued a UNHCR GCA cash card once and have a monthly appointment with the GCA partners in order to certify their presence in the country and their continued eligibility for cash assistance.<\/p>\n<p>To support this cash programme, UNHCR has deployed its corporate cash assistance management system,\u00a0<em>CashAssist<\/em>. The system allows UNHCR and its partners to deliver in an automated, timely and accountable manner cash assistance to refugees and asylum-seekers through its global registration and case management system database,\u00a0<em>proGres v4<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Every month the aggregated lists of eligible refugees are uploaded into UNHCR\u2019s <em>CashAssist<\/em>. Payment instructions are automatically passed to the Financial Service Provider, using <em>proGres v4 <\/em>and <em>CashAssist<\/em>. The Financial Service Provider then loads the cards with cash and refugees use it with a PIN to withdraw cash from cash points or to pay for goods and services in shops.<\/p>\n<p>They use the card to meet their most basic needs (food, clothes, hygiene, communication, transport and school supplies), an approach that allows choice and encourages self-reliance while at the same time contributing to the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>For information about the GCA and its work, follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/5a14306a7\">link<\/a> and if you want more information on cash assistance in Greece and how it restore dignity for refugees, click <a href=\"http:\/\/donors.unhcr.gr\/echo\/en\/cash_card_restores_dignity\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, the Greece Cash Alliance (GCA) is a partnership between UNHCR and five international NGOs, provided monthly cash assistance to more than 33,000 refugees and asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-inclusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}