UNFPA's experience in different humanitarian contexts has shown that cash and voucher assistance (CVA) is a powerful instrument that can save lives, alleviate risks, and help women and girls escape abusive environments. 

By giving women and girls greater access to vital services and empowering them with the freedom to choose, UNFPA has found that CVA can directly contribute to the realisation of the Three Transformative Results of zero unmet need for contraception, zero preventable maternal deaths, and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices, which UNFPA is committed to achieving by the year 2030.

This fact sheet provides an overview of key achievements made in 2023 under UNFPA’s CVA programming throughout the Arab region and Türkiye, as part of its regional response to the Syria crisis (and the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria).