Integrated Food Security and WASH Assistance for IDPs and Host Communities in Bani Sa’ad district of Al Mahwit and As Sawd district of Amran in Yemen (Priority 1) Consistent with the specific objectives of Priority 1, as well as the strategic objectives of 2022 HRP, this 12-month proposed project aims at contributing to preventing famine and mitigating hunger of approximately 36,680 vulnerable and conflict-affected people (10,270 women, 11,004 men, 8,070 boys and 7,336 girls) in Bani Sa’ad district of Al Mahwit and As Sawd district of Amran. This will be achieved through an integrated approach of: enhancing the capacity of the most food insecure, vulnerable and conflict-affected households to meet their food and basic needs through gender-sensitive and inclusive conditional and unconditional cash transfers (Sector 1: FSL), and addressing acute WASH needs amongst vulnerable and at-risk populations that negatively impacts their health, nutrition and well-being through provision of life-saving WASH assistance (Sector 2: WASH). The needs and gaps are identified through a combination of CARE’s MSNAs in the targeted locations, rapid gender analysis, consultations with local authorities, clusters and community members, as well as secondary data from a range of humanitarian actors.  To reduce famine risk and food insecurity of the targeted population in Bani Sa’ad and As Sawd districts, CARE will provide cash assistance to 1,340 highly vulnerable HHs to meet their food and basic needs. Six rounds of UCT will be provided to 640 most food-insecure and marginalized households in the community (30% of which are female-headed HHs). CARE will support an additional 700 HHs with able-bodied members that have very limited income or no formal employment (30% of which are female-headed HHs) with Cash-for-Work (CfW) intervention. To the extent possible, CARE will link the UCT and CfW beneficiaries to its other cash programmes (whenever available) or to other actors on the ground should some HHs require continued food security support after 6 rounds of cash transfers. While other HHs who have more stabilized conditions after UCT and CfW will be linked to other livelihood partners so that they will be able to have more sustainable and longer-term sources of income when the project ends. This proposed project recognizes that improved food security and nutrition of the targeted population in Bani Sa’ad and As Sawd districts can be impeded by diseases associated with poor WASH practices. Therefore, CARE will improve safe access to and utilization of clean drinking water and sanitation facilities in order to reduce mortality and morbidity from water-borne, vector, and environmental sources. This will be realized through the construction or rehabilitation of 4 community water schemes across the two targeted districts reaching approximately 8,400 people. The community assets that will be prioritized for rehabilitation on CFW scheme under the FSL sector will include WASH facilities. This linkage will maximize both project resources and impacts to the beneficiaries. Moreover, HHs and communities will also be supported to develop and implement HH and community water safety and water quality monitoring activities. For Integrated Famine Risks Reductions, CARE will improve its integrated and holistic approach to service delivery by facilitating referrals for other services, i.e., health, nutrition, protection, etc. with other humanitarian actors and existing CARE programs including this project where the activities for both WASH and FSL will complement each other. This will be achieved by establishing relationships and referral systems with other actors. CARE will mainstream protection-related concerns in this project by training staff and volunteers on risk reduction approaches and safe programming (i.e., safe referrals), conducting regular risk analysis including RGA, defining cross-impairment indicators for monitoring, and ensuring that support is given to people with different impairments, and working in close coordination with existing protection coordination mechanisms.