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title: "Multi-purpose cash assistance: Covid-19"
description: "How Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance helped vulnerable households in urban areas to cope with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic."
url: "https://www.nrc.no/resources/reports/multi-purpose-cash-assistance-covid-19"
language: "en"
published: "2021-10-20T14:08:30Z"
modified: "2021-10-20T14:08:30Z"
---

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# Multi-purpose cash assistance: Covid-19

Published 20. Oct 2021

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[Somalia](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=102) [Cash and voucher](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=138) [Coronavirus](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=347)

How Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance helped vulnerable households in urban areas to cope with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This document contains top-level findings from three monitoring surveys under the Building Resilient Communities in Somalia (BRCiS) Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) project.

The analysis focuses on the urban beneficiaries of the FCDO funded, Rapid Response Fund (RRF) project.

The RRF project was implemented following the first Covid-19 diagnosis in Somalia in March 2020. This response was a direct effort to scale up Covid-19 prevention and to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic in BRCiS communities.

[MPCA Covid 2-pager.pdf 806.4 KB](https://www.nrc.no/globalassets/pdf/reports/mpca-covid-19/mpca-covid-2-pager.pdf)