In June 2020, the EU-funded Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme reallocated its resources to provide additional cash assistance to 1.7 million vulnerable refugees in Türkiye in order to address the COVID socio-economic impacts. IFRC and Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) teams began joint visits to the offices of local authorities, Halkbank branches and (I)NGOs to gather information on the impact of COVID-19 on the implementation of the ESSN as well as on the lives of the affected populations. IFRC and TRC also started conducting a first-ever remote focus group discussion format to adapt to the COVID-19 context.