Provision of emergency shelter and cash for winterization support for drought-affected IDPs in Badghis province This will serve as a scale up to the on-going ES/NFI activities and increasing the coverage of emergency assistance to the IDPs in Badghis province. The project targets severely drought-affected populations in Kharestan IDP settlement in Badghis province through provision of emergency shelter (tents) and cash for winterization assistance. The project is based on inter-agency verification process performed under the auspices of UNOCHA and implemented directly by an assessment team consisting of CRDSA, NRC (lead), IRC, IOM, NCRO, PDMC, Unicef, AHDAA [Christian Aid IP] and CoAR and complete coordination with provincial ANDMAs and DRRD in Badghis province. The humanitarian situation extremely critical.The verification process established the urgent need to provide emergency shelter, NFIs as well as winterization assistance (heating materials) to the displaced population. IDPs live in the open spaces and makeshift shelters that do not enable dignity, privacy and protection. Females and girls in particular are exposed to protection risks due to very poor living conditions with no privacy. There has been an increase in child mortality associated with poor shelter conditions. Reports (HMIS, 2018) indicate U5 mortality rates of 2/10,000 in IDP camps, exceeding the emergency threshold. 

The project entails 2 components including (1) emergency shelter (tents) assistance and (2) provision of cash for winterization support. Both components together will provide benefits to a total of 26404 individuals (3772 drought affected families - including 6601 men, 5017 women, 7657 boys, 7129 girls) in Muqur district of Badghis province. In component (1) emergency shelters (tents), 844 tents will be provided by UNHCR through the AHF grant and will be distributed by CRDSA to  to 5908 people (844 drought affected families - 1477 men, 1123 women, 1713 boys and 1595 girls) in Kharestan informal IDP site in Moqur district of Badghis province. 

In component (2) cash for winterization support will be provided to 26404 individuals (3772 drought affected families - including 6601 men, 5017 women, 7657 boys, 7129 girls) Kharestan informal IDP site in Moqur district of Badghis province. It should be mentioned that 844 of the 3772 families simultaneously receive emergency shelters (tents) as described above as part of component (1).  

The modality of beneficiary selection includes a two-step process in which in the first step beneficiaries were verified using the data collected as part of the inter-agency verification process (mentioned above). Specific beneficiary selection criteria will be applied during the implementation of the project. According to this assessment, a total of 3772 families were verified as IDPs in the site who will be covered under the assistance measures through the project. These IDP families will be differentiated from non-IDP families through specific selection criteria including not living in the surrounding villages of the site, their origin shall be at least 20-30 Km far from the site, settling in the site on regular basis (days and nights) and not receiving ES/NFI assistance formerly.