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Improved safe access for CBE and public school-enrolled girls and boys in Balkh In response to the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) 2020 revision priorities, Save the Children International (SCI) will implement an integrated package of life-saving and resilience-building interventions in Balkh province, targeting communities in need of both education in emergencies (EiE) support and COVID-19 prevention measures, enabling students and teachers to safely return to school. Given the convergence of needs, SCI will provide a complementary package of EiE and WASH interventions in the targeted districts. In Balkh (five districts), our integrated activities will reach a total of 83,066 beneficiaries directly, including 3,927 adults (40% women and 60% men) and 83,066 children (47% girls and 54% boys). 
Our approach to integration is based on recognition of the potential of different cluster envelopes to provide a holistic, complementary response to COVID-19 in addition to existing priority needs. COVID-19 has exacerbated inequalities in accessing education across the country and created new barriers for engaging with learning during school closure and returning to school safely once classes resume. With funding under EiE, we will provide self-learning materials for vulnerable children who were unable to access distance learning modalities (TV and radio) during the school closure period and thus, fell behind in the curriculum. To enable children and teachers to safely return to community-based education (CBE) classes and hub schools, funding will be used to provide disinfection materials to CBE classes and hub schools, handwashing facilities, soap, clean drinking water tanks, and reusable face coverings for teachers and students in CBE classes. Due to our operational presence in the target districts in Balkh, experience in education in emergencies (EiE) and integrated COVID-19 response, and ability to implement activities in combination to maximize the impact of different envelopes, we are equipped to lead an integrated response and contribute to the objectives of the HRP 2020.
Winterization assistance for vulnerable populations in Badakhshan and Ghor provinces Through this intervention, ACTED will provide lifesaving winterization heating assistance to 606 vulnerable families (4,242 beneficiaries) facing critical climatic conditions during the Afghanistan winter in Badakhshan and Ghor provinces. Due to the extremely low temperatures during winter and the high levels of displacement and poverty across Afghanistan, many households and communities are either living in inadequate or makeshift shelters for the conditions or lack financial resources to provide sufficient heating, therefore exposing them to increased health risks such as respiratory infections, pneumonia and hypothermia, which can be fatal. ACTED is uniquely positioned to provide seasonal winterization support to recent shock-affected households as a priority. Additionally, ACTED aims to build upon the already planned assistance to expand its winterization coverage in the Category 1 provinces of Badakhshan and Ghor. All proposed provinces are subject to extreme cold temperatures, high snowfall, and early onset of winter. As per the ES/NFI cluster targets for winterization, the majority of people in need are host communities, therefore necessitating a needs-based targeting criteria and not status based. 

Through the AHF 5th Reserve Allocation, ACTED will aim to expand its winterization targets, adding an additional 606 households. In order to protect the most vulnerable households that are at risk during winter, ACTED will provide standard winterization heating packages, consisting of a one-off 200 USD cash assistance (provided to beneficiaries in Afghani) to cover heating materials for 3 months in Badakhshan, and 260 USD to cover 4 months in Ghor. Assistance will be provided through unconditional, unrestricted cash (200 USD / 15,000 AFN or 260 USD / 19,500 AFN) in accordance with the ES/NFI cluster standards. The winterization cash assistance will be heavily linked with and complemented by multi-sector responses, in order to ensure that beneficiaries’ high multi-sector needs (particularly in food, health and WASH) are met and addressed during the winter months, and that the unconditional winterization cash assistance will contribute to meeting their winterization needs. In total, ACTED will target 375 households in Badakhshan and 231 households in Ghor with winterization assistance.

PDM findings from previous AHF Reserve allocations for similar types of assistance show a strong acceptance of cash as a means of assistance, households will make their own determinations based on their own needs. 

To ensure service provision in a dignified manner, ACTED will ensure implementation is conducted while upholding core humanitarian standards and following with ES/NFI cluster guidelines. This project will have a direct impact on reducing protection risks associated with harmful coping mechanisms, in IDP settlements and displacement areas. ACTED will mainstream protection throughout project implementation to prioritize safety and dignity, and avoid causing harm, and to ensure meaningful access and accountability to affected populations.
Emergency Protection Programming to Meet the Unique Needs of Women, Girls, Men and Boys during COVID-19 in Afghanistan IRC will enhance the safety and dignity of those vulnerable groups most at risk of harm and rights violations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan - namely children, women and girls, and households with heightened vulnerability - through delivery of a tailored package of Child Protection, Gender-Based Violence response and targeted cash assistance in Helmand, Herat, Laghman and Nangarhar provinces.
Northern Badghis WASH Assistance Project In order to ensure that lives are saved in the areas of highest need (SO1) and support vulnerable people to build their resilience (SO3), WVI is proposing to provide life-saving WASH assistance to 6 communities / 1285 households / 9,936 (4,888 males,  5,048  females) people in Ghormach and Bala Murghab districts of Badghis Province.  Both districts are hard-to-reach (HTR) locations, according to the HRP.  

There is a significant need for WASH interventions in these locations, which are frequently impacted by conflict natural disasters and currently under-served by humanitarian actors.  According to the most recent 2019 REACH assessment, 42% of assessed settlements in Ghormach and 53% of assessment settlements in Bala Murghab have had their main water sources destroyed, damaged or dried due to natural disasters.  According to a 2019 WV multi-sector needs assessment, 100% of households in Ghormach are consuming water from unprotected sources. Hand washing with soap is not widely practiced, with 0% of households in Ghormach possessing soap for hand washing (WVI, 2019).  The lack of clean drinking water and poor hygiene practices is considered a key contributor to high diarrhea rates.  In Ghormach district, the diarrhea rate among children under 5 was 54% compared to the 29% national average (WVI, 2019 ADHS, 2015).  

WV will address outcome 1.9 of the HRP (WASH assistance is delivered to women, men, boys and girls living in hard-to-reach areas) and outcome 3.7 (Vulnerable people have access to safe drinking water as a result of resilient activities) by providing drinking water via 6 solar-powered drinking water networks connected to deep boreholes in HRT locations in Bala Murghab and Ghormach.  WASH assistance will also be provided in HTR locations through hygiene training and Family Hygiene Kits to all households so that they are able to practice essential hygiene behaviors such as hand washing.  By providing clean drinking water and improved hygiene practices, diarrhea and malnutrition rates will decline, thus “saving lives in the areas of highest need” (HRP SO1).  Provision of water supply networks to these locations that are frequently exposed to drought will also ensure that "vulnerable people are supported to build their resilience" (HRP SO3).
Delivery of lifesaving nutrition services to winter affected priority areas The freezing winter temperatures, especially in the high altitude areas drive the need for lifesaving nutrition services especially for children aged under-five. The Nutrition Cluster has identified 34 districts within five provinces (Badakhshan, Badghis, Ghor, Daykundi and Urozgan) as winter affected areas with pre-existing emergency levels of acute malnutrition (more than 15% and/ or more than 10% with presence of aggravating factors), which would need continued provision of nutrition services.

UNICEF, the sole provider of Ready-To-Use-Therapeutic-Food (RUTF) in the country, forecasted a shortage of RUTF for the winter affected areas. To maintain the current scale of services in the target areas with an acceptable level of treatment coverage, UNICEF is seeking the support of the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) to support provision of lifesaving therapeutic supplies (RUTF) to secure Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) treatment services for a total of 3,738 children in the target districts.

UNICEF will procure the therapeutic supplies through its Supply Division. Supplies will be stored at national and regional UNICEF warehouses and will be distributed to the implementing partners (IPs) through Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on a quarterly basis. The AHF project IPs are: Social and Health Development Programme (SHDP), Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), Medical Management and Research Course for Afghans (MMRCA), Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA), MOVE and also the non-BPHS IPs including World Vision International (WVI), MEDAIR and Action Against Hunger (AAH).
UNICEF will use complementary funding sources, including but not limited to the last AHF allocation, to provide therapeutic milk (F-75 and F-100 type) to complement the lifesaving treatment services addressing the needs of children with SAM with medical complications in hospitals in the target districts in the five target provinces.

Outpatient and inpatient treatment of SAM are integral components of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) approach, that will be delivered by the Basic Package of Health Services/ Essential Package of Hospital Services (BPHS/ EPHS) and humanitarian implementing partners through fixed health facilities and mobile teams.

Furthermore, SAM treatment will be provided simultaneously with the treatment of Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) supported by World Food Programme (WFP), where applicable.
CPiE response focusing on increased awareness raising, PSS and specialized services to conflict-affected children and families in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, Afghanistan Save the Children (SC) will implement a comprehensive package of Child Protection in Emergencies services, including COVID prevention and life saving interventions, in Kunar and Nangarhar Provinces targeting conflict and pandemic affected children and adolescents, internally displaced people and of the host communities (referred to as vulnerable people throughout the proposal). Given the convergence of needs, SC has chosen to target Nurgal, Khas Kunar, Sawkey, Narang and Asad Abad districts, locations in which SC will also implement Education in Emergencies (EiE) programming under another grant, in parallel, as well as Lalpoura, Momandara, Rodat, Ghanikhail districts in Nangarhar.
Support COVID 19 response in Shahrak-e-Sabz and Clinic Area/Shaidayee Informal Site in Herat The proposed intervention aim is to prevent and mitigate against COVID-19 transmission and impact on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Herat province. Afghanistan already faces major gaps within its health care system and preventing the spread of COVID-19 is critical to saving lives and reducing the burden on healthcare infrastructure and recourses. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. As of April 7th 2020, 1.384 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed and 78,917 deaths have been reported across the world. In Afghanistan, Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) data indicates that 521 people across 23 provinces are confirmed to have the virus and 14 people have died. Herat remains the epicenter for the crisis with 80% of the total registered cases in the country.

Afghanistan is likely to be significantly affected due to its weak health system and limited capacity to deal with major disease outbreaks. Afghanistan’s close proximity to Iran and the high numbers of Afghan returnees from Iran, puts the country at heightened risk, with tens of thousands of people and commercial movements across the border from each day. High internal displacement, low overall vaccination rates, prevalence of comorbidity among vulnerable populations and weak health, water and sanitation infrastructure, create a context in which vulnerability to COIVID-19 transmission and infection is high. Herat province has the highest number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in Afghanistan and hosts a large IDP population. WVA is already operational in Herat IDP settlements through the existing awards. The proposed intervention will focus on three areas, 1) Active Community Screening, 2) Risk Communication and Awareness Raising and 3) Support existing health service delivery points including isolation wards and hospitals

The medical waste will be disposed in coordination with the WHO, BPHS implementing NOGO, DEWS, UNICEF and other relevant Stakeholders and make sure no medical waste remain in the area. The disposition of the waste will be done in an area outside of the residential areas recommended by DOPH to make sure this intervention has no negative impact on the environment. 

WV has already coordinated with WHO help promotion focal point and Religious affairs. The 200 faith leaders will be trained upon the approval of the proposed project. WV is already working with the department of Haj and religious affairs and the selection of the 200 faith leaders will be done in coordination with the Haj and religious affairs.
COVID-19 Response - Support to Surveillance, Risk Communication and Points of Entry Component 1: Based on identified gaps in community-level awareness leading to a reluctance to take precautions against the spread of COVID-19 in Afghanistan inclusive of a reluctance to adhere to movement restrictions, physical distancing measures and testing for sick or suspect persons, IOM proposes to expand community level risk communication and engagement through the deployment of social mobilizers in the provinces of Nangahar, Kandahar, Nimroz and Herat- four disease outbreak hubs linked to cross border returns. These teams will engage with Community Health Worker networks to ensure regular advocacy through organized sensitization campaigning with a focus on peri-urban and rural areas where information gaps remain the most pronounced. Special attention will be paid to community and religious leadership cadres.

Component 2: In discussion and agreement with the Public Health Directors in Herat, Nangarhar, Kandahar and Nimroz provinces and the health cluster/WHO in both regions, IOM will supplement existing rapid response teams (COVID sample collection teams composed of 1 doctor, 1 nurse and 1 lab tech as per the SOP developed by the Ministry of Health) by adding 11 additional teams (35 medical personnel in total) to respond to requests to collect and process COVID-19 samples from suspect cases. In order to transport these teams IOM will support their movements with ambulances which will also be used for referral to designated government isolation/hospital facilities for suspect and emergency cases.
Provision of emergency cash for food assistance in Samangan province Through this project, ACTED will provide immediate life-saving food security assistance to 13,104 vulnerable and food insecure beneficiaries (1,872 households) in Samangan province.

The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan continues to steadily decline in late 2020, characterized by high levels of ongoing violence and conflict, natural disasters, high rates of poverty, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which have contributed to worsen the grave protection crisis and cause significant displacement and high multi-sector needs across the country. Populations are characterized by low resilience and high vulnerabilities and often fall into a state of acute emergency and need urgent support to meet their immediate basic needs. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular has had a significant acute impact across Afghanistan, and exacerbated already high levels of multi-sector needs for vulnerable communities due to loss of livelihoods and income, and reduced access to essential services as a result of government imposed lockdowns, movement restrictions and market volatility, which has eroded coping mechanisms and increased negative coping strategies.

Within this context, food insecurity remains severe across Afghanistan, and has worsened due to COVID-19. Most notably, the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 is having a devastating impact on people’s livelihoods and income, and coupled with chronic underlying poverty, has already started to further challenge families’ capacity to purchase essential food supplies. The lockdown and restrictions of mobility has had a negative impact on both the supply chain for basic commodities as well as on household livelihood and income opportunities, subjecting vulnerable households to reduced income, higher prices of food commodities, and reduced access to food due to supply chain disruptions. Samangan province is specifically facing this worsening situation. The latest IPC analysis projects Samangan as escalating to IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) from November 2020 to March 2021, and it is projected to have 40% of its urban population either in Phase 3 (Crisis) or 4 (Emergency).

ACTED is uniquely positioned to provide immediate food security cash assistance support vulnerable households in Samangan province and will provide cash assistance to cover four months half food ration (45 USD per HH per month x 4 months) to the most vulnerable beneficiaries to help support them during the lean season. In total, ACTED will target 872 households in Khuram wa Sarbagh districts and 1,000 households in Ruy-e-Duab district with cash assistance. The cash assistance will be heavily linked with and complemented by multi-sector responses, especially winterization assistance, in order to ensure that beneficiaries’ high multi-sector needs (particularly in winterization, health and WASH through various other funding streams, including another AHF allocation) are met and addressed during the winter months, and that the unconditional cash for food assistance will contribute to meeting their food needs.
Provision of essential and quality primary health care services, including sexual and reproductive health care for vulnerable conflict-affected population in Zabul Province. The proposed action will address the health humanitarian needs of the conflict-affected population in Zabul Province, through the provision of primary health care services in Qalat and Shajoy districts. This action aims at improving access to basic primary health care (PHC), including sexual reproductive health (SRH) and COVID-19 specific support. 
In Qalat district, INTERSOS will focus particularly on supporting the Sexual and Reproductive Health services provided at Qalat temporary Provincial Hospital, while also improving the quality of outpatient department (OPD) consultations through the provision of additional space, medical equipment, drugs and human resources. 25.615 vulnerable individuals will benefit from this intervention. The project will: 
1) support the provision of OPD consultations within Qalat temporary Provincial Hospital, through specialized medical personnel (medical doctors, nurses and midwives) expansion of space for consultations provision of proper medical equipment and drugs. 
2) provision of primary health care services in hard to reach areas of Shajoy district through the deployment of a health team.
3) provision of personal protective equipment for medical personnel deployed in Qalat and Shajoy districts in order to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. 
INTERSOS will implement this project in synergy with ongoing actions within the same area. Particularly, a referral system will be put in place to the Family Protection Center (FPC) embedded in the Qalat Provincial Hospital.    
Through its comprehensive intervention, INTERSOS will address rising COVID-19 pandemic needs with prevention, preparedness and response integrated activities of Infection and Prevention Control (IPC), focused hygiene promotion and capacity building for front-line health workers.
Integrated lifesaving protection response to COVID- 9 covering the most vulnerable people including women, children, elderly, disabled, and survivors of sexual violence DRC aims to provide a comprehensive protection response to COVID-19 in prioritized locations to determine and report on protection profiles of affected populations and sites, assess protection risks for men, women, boys, and girls, and sector specific needs. The project aims to provide a timely, coordinated and complementary intervention based on the identified protection needs. Protection will be central to all response interventions which include service mapping, safe referrals, individual protection assistance for at risk individuals, information sharing, awareness raising on fundamental rights, protection mainstreaming training to multi-sector teams alongside partners and key community stakeholders.
Comprehensive child protection services for disaster affected children and adolescents in Jawzjan and Faryab Provinces. Save the Children (SC) will implement a comprehensive package of Child Protection in Emergencies services, including specialized case management, capacity building, systems strengthening and PSS, in Jawzjan and Faryab Province targeting conflict affected children and adolescents, internally displaced and of the host communities. 
To prevent hypothermia, the project will provide winterization kits to severely and moderately acute malnourished under five children admitted in SC supported emergency mobile health and nutrition teams in Faryab, Jawzjan and Balkh provinces during the winter season.