Collaborative Cash Delivery

What Collaborative Cash Delivery does

Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) is a non-profit global network of 14 international NGOs, founded in 2016 in the wake of the Grand Bargain, that coordinates the collaborative delivery of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA). Its members, which include Action Against Hunger, CARE, Save the Children, World Vision, IRC, NRC, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, and others, collectively manage approximately $2.2B in humanitarian cash assistance annually, deliver 80% of "last mile" cash assistance globally, and reach over 150 million vulnerable people across more than 80 countries with a 72-hour crisis response target. The network operates through in-country collaboration structures in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, Colombia, Ecuador, and Turkiye/Syria.

CCD's core technology offering is a coordination platform supplemented by modular tools: a Data Interoperability Framework (deduplication, referrals, data portability, governance), a Harmonised Cash Capacity Assessment Tool (available in six languages), a Social Protection Mapping Tool covering Ukraine and Poland, a Digital Literacy Training course ("Data Class") hosted on the Humanitarian Data Solutions platform, and Communities of Practice plus working groups (Social Protection, Localisation, Data Interoperability). These tools are not AI-driven; they are governance frameworks, assessment instruments, and training assets that standardise ways of working across member agencies.

The business model is non-commercial: CCD is funded through institutional donor grants (ECHO, DEC, European Commission) and member agency contributions, and it provides coordination, facilitation, and technical support services to its members and the broader humanitarian sector. The go-to-market is community-led: CCD deploys in-country facilitators and Collaboration Managers, hosts working groups, publishes research and case studies, and runs capacity-building programmes, rather than selling discrete products. It is not investor-backed and reports no separate revenue; the $2.2B figure represents the operational scale of cash assistance managed by member NGOs through the network.

Name

Collaborative Cash Delivery

Legal name

Collaborative Cash Delivery

Website

https://collaborativecash.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) is a non-profit network of 14 international NGOs that coordinates collaborative humanitarian cash and voucher assistance, reaching over 150 million vulnerable people across 80+ countries and managing $2.2B in annual cash aid.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Cash Assistance Coordination

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

akta.pro primary industry

Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) / Emergency Social Assistance (BPADADAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Emergency Livelihood Support (BPAGAAAJ)

Keywords

• Humanitarian cash assistance
• NGO network coordination
• Cash voucher programs
• Humanitarian aid services
• Data interoperability frameworks

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Network Coordination Services: CCD provides coordination, facilitation, and technical support services to member NGOs and humanitarian actors through its network infrastructure. The network is funded through grants and funding from institutional donors including ECHO, DEC, European Commission, and member agency contributions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) is a non-profit network of 14 international NGOs that collaborates to improve the delivery of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) in humanitarian crises. It provides coordination, shared technical services, harmonised tools (including data interoperability frameworks, social protection mapping, and cash capacity assessments), in-country collaboration managers, and capacity-building resources to enable member NGOs to deliver timely and standardised cash assistance across 80+ countries.

Product overview

The Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network is a platform comprising a global network of 14 member NGOs plus in-country networks in multiple countries. The core offering is the Collaborative Cash Delivery Network itself, which facilitates collaboration among humanitarian organisations to deliver cash and voucher assistance. Supporting this core platform are several modules including the Shared Services Hub (providing technical support in crisis regions), the Social Protection Mapping Tool (a filterable tool for analysing social protection programs), the Harmonised Cash Capacity Assessment Tool (for assessing local NGO capacity), the Data Interoperability Framework (for secure data exchange), and the Data Class Digital Literacy Training course. Additional coordination mechanisms include the Social Protection Working Group, Communities of Practice, and the Localisation Working Group. These modules work together to enable NGOs to collaboratively deliver humanitarian cash assistance more effectively, with shared standards, tools, and coordination structures.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Collaborative Cash Delivery Network A global coordination network of 14 international NGOs (including Action Against Hunger, CARE, Save the Children, World Vision) collaborating to improve the quality and delivery of humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA) to vulnerable populations in 80+ countries.
• Shared Services Hub (SSH) Technical support hub providing collaboration facilitation, social protection advisory, localisation advisory, and global cash training of trainers to support CCD member responses in crisis regions.
• Social Protection Mapping Tool
• Harmonised Cash Capacity Assessment Tool A harmonised tool developed to assess local NGO capacity for cash programming, piloted by five INGOs in Turkiye, North West Syria, and Ukraine. Available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
• Data Interoperability Framework Framework addressing data deduplication, referrals, data portability, and data governance to enable secure exchange of beneficiary data between humanitarian organisations while protecting privacy.
• Data Class: Digital Literacy Training for Frontline Cash Teams Online course created by Amos Doornbos and World Vision to increase digital literacy and knowledge of data protection regulations among frontline project teams. Hosted on the Thinkific platform via Humanitarian Data Solutions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reach 150 million+ vulnerable people
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Feature4 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• Action Against Hunger (ACF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member of CCD network. One of 14 NGOs managing $2.2B of humanitarian cash assistance annually. Active in multiple country collaborations including South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Ukraine response.
• ACTEDcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member of CCD network. Contributes to collaborative cash programming across multiple country operations.
• CARE InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member of CCD network. Active in country collaborations including South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Colombia.
• Concern WorldwidecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member of CCD. Contributes to harmonised tools development and country-level cash programming.
• Catholic Relief Services (CRS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member hosting key roles including Collaboration Manager for South Sudan. Active across country networks including South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria.
• DanChurchAid (DCA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member contributing to Ukraine localisation pilots and country operations.
• Danish Refugee Council (DRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member active in South Sudan, Uganda, Colombia, Ethiopia country networks.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member active in multiple country networks including South Sudan, Colombia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Nigeria.
• Mercy CorpscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member contributing to Ukraine response, localisation pilots, and country operations including Nigeria, Uganda.
• Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member active in Ecuador, Colombia, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria operations. Hosts CashCap programme.
• OxfamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member contributing to harmonised tools development and country-level cash programming.
• Relief InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member active in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria, Sudan country operations.
• Save the ChildrencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member hosting Humanitarian Transformation Lead and key roles in Ukraine, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan, Nigeria, Colombia country operations.
• World VisioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounding member providing Data Interoperability Working Group Lead, localisation pilots, and active across multiple country networks.
• Ground Truth SolutionssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner conducting longitudinal user journey studies of cash assistance recipients in Ukraine to ensure beneficiary feedback drives programme improvements.
• Humanitarian Data SolutionssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPlatform hosting CCD's Data Class digital literacy training course for frontline humanitarian teams.
• REACH InitiativesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Joint Market Monitoring Initiative (JMMI) in South Sudan and Ethiopia for market monitoring and analysis.
• DIGID (Dignified Identities in Cash assistance)supportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerConsortium partner working on data portability pilots and data stewardship models alongside CCD.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• GiveDirectly: Non-profit delivering cash transfers directly to recipients in humanitarian and poverty contexts. Adjacent to CCD as a CVA actor, but operates a fundamentally different (direct, tech-enabled) model compared to CCD's INGO coordination network.
• Ground Truth Solutions: Humanitarian organisation focused on beneficiary feedback and accountability in aid delivery. Already a CCD partner in Ukraine; comparable in mission orientation (improving humanitarian aid quality) but specialised in feedback rather than coordination.
• REACH Initiative: Humanitarian research and assessment actor (joint IM tools, market monitoring). Already a CCD partner in South Sudan and Ethiopia, providing JMMI data — adjacent to CCD's coordination role in supporting joint humanitarian programming.

Broad incumbents

• Grand Bargain Secretariat: Inter-agency initiative born out of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit that explicitly catalysed CCD's creation. Comparable as a sector-coordination vehicle driving humanitarian reform, though it operates at a policy level rather than operational CVA coordination.
• UN OCHA Cash Working Groups: UN-led country-level coordination bodies that bring together humanitarian actors on cash programming. Operate in the same country contexts as CCD (Sudan, Ukraine, Ethiopia, etc.) and provide an inter-agency coordination layer that overlaps with CCD's in-country networks.
• Global Protection Cluster: Inter-agency coordination mechanism for protection in humanitarian response. Operates under a similar cluster model as cash working groups and is structurally comparable to CCD's in-country collaboration networks, but specialised in protection rather than CVA.
• IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies): Global humanitarian network with extensive cash and voucher assistance programming through National Societies. Comparable to CCD as a multi-agency coordination platform in humanitarian response, but broader in scope and mandate (health, disaster response, etc.).
• UNHCR (Cash-Based Interventions): UN agency delivering large-scale cash assistance to refugees and displaced populations. Operates similar CVA mechanisms in overlapping country contexts and is both a peer and a frequent coordination counterpart to CCD member INGOs.

Direct peers

• CaLP (Cash Learning Partnership): Global humanitarian knowledge and learning network dedicated to cash and voucher assistance. Highly comparable to CCD as a sector-wide coordination and capacity-building body in humanitarian CVA, though CaLP focuses more on evidence/learning while CCD focuses on operational collaboration among INGOs.

Others

• Humanitarian Data Solutions: Platform hosting CCD's Data Class training course. Comparable as a capacity-building and digital literacy provider for humanitarian cash teams, positioned as an enabling technology partner rather than a coordination competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

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