Provision of cash for food and psychosocial support to IDP women, boys, girls and men, specific ESNFI needs assessment for particularly women headed households to respond most vulnerable families, and creating safe environment for affected children during emergencies in Kandahar, Hilmand, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces. The proposed intervention will be an immediate response to the families affected by ongoing armed conflict in Southern Afghanistan, displaced from the place of their origin, living in worst condition of displacement and haven’t received any lifesaving response neither by the government nor by aid organizations. The proposed aid will be targeting both – new IDPs by cash for food, provision of psycho-social assistant and the ESNFI needs identification of new and prolonged IDPs within the last 12 months of displacement history while ensuring stocks of emergency non-food items to respond to life saving situations including the families living in most critical situation identified during the assessment. Augmenting immediate response by creating safe and protective environment to fulfill children’s rights, enhance well-being, providing them psychosocial needs, recreational activities that will be reviving the children’s life from distress towards relief, reducing children’s vulnerability and protection threats and learn in a harm free and supportive environment. The proposed intervention is shaped in line with strategic objectives of HRP for 2017 and the relevant objectives of FSAC, ESNFI and CPiE clusters. The cash will immediately enable new families to have food in emergencies for short term until the situation gets stable, this in turn will have significant impact on reducing child mortality, contributing in reduction of malnutrition rate and overall health and dignity of the vulnerable families. The new and prolonged IDP families’ ESNFI needs assessment will enhance humanitarian needs analysis and inform strategic planning targeting, prioritization and contribute to the provision of recent data on key humanitarian indicators for the 2018 CHF 1st Standard Allocation. The provision of psychosocial training to shock affected population will enhance their psycho-social well-being, relief from stressful and critical situation resulted due to shocks.

The project title is – Provision of cash for food and psychosocial support to IDP women, boys, girls and men, specific ESNFI needs assessment for particularly women headed households to respond most vulnerable families, and creating safe environment for affected children during emergencies in Kandahar, Hilmand, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces. The overall objective of the project is – To enhance the well-being and restore dignity of mainly armed conflict IDP women, boys, girls and men who have not been reached with humanitarian or other assistance through cash for food, non-food items and provision of psychosocial support. Collect comprehensive evidence-based information through community based approach with more focus on prolonged IDPs to address the specific ESNFI needs of women, boys, girls and men and the strengthening of CPiE mechanism through formation of Child Friendly Spaces in hard to reach areas. Then interventions will also strenghten the community acceptance and further create an enabling environment for humanitarian programming and delivery of assistance.

The proposed project will target vulnerable beneficiaries in the following areas:

Hilmand province districts:
Garmser
Lashkar Gah
Nad Ali
Nawa barakzi
Kandahar province districts:
Khakrez
Maywand
Shah Wali Kot
Zhari
Uruzgan province districts:
Chora
Dihrawud
Tirinkot
Zabul province districts:
Shahjoy

The target beneficiaries:
Overall 66192 individuals will be targeted. 
- Cash assistance to 1150 new IDP families.
- Non-food items to 400 IDP families.
- 24 Child Friendly Spaces to accommodate 1200 children.
- 4586 new and prolonged IDP families will be assessed for ESNFI needs.
- 2000 IDPs will be provided psycho-social support, awareness session on child rights, child protection, hygiene and sanitation promotion.
- Child protection and rights related trainings to 120 Community Based Child Protection Councils (CBCPC) members.
The clusters endorsement letters are attached as annex-22a –b, c, d.