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Provision of access to safe WASH services for displacement-affected communities in Kunduz Province The proposed project will target conflict-affected communities in Chardara, Qala-i-Zal and Dasti-Archi Districts of Kunduz Province through provision of adequate and sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services at household and community-level. The project aims to improve access to safe water and sanitation facilities as well as hygiene items to the vulnerable households in underserved communities. The response covers a critical gap in hard-to-reach areas by providing or expanding existing WASH facilities in conflict affected communities. In addition, communities hosting IDPs or Afghan returnees whose WASH facilities are overstretched will be supported though WASH services. The project will be directly implemented by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), continuing recent interventions in these areas (Covid-19 response). The project is aligned with the AHF Allocation Response Strategy 5th RA and has been coordinated through relevant fora, notably the Afghanistan WASH Cluster.

Targeting 1,650 vulnerable households (11,550 individuals – 5,659 males 5,891 female) in Kunduz Province, NRC proposes to construct 3 new solar water supply system and rehabilitate/upgrade 33 existing water sources (boreholes and dug wells) through contractual services. In addition, 180 vulnerable families will be supported though conditional cash assistance for household latrine construction. Non-food items (NFI) hygiene kits and handwashing drums will be provided though in-kind distribution to the targeted households. All of the WASH project hard interventions will be complemented with soft component of hygiene promotion. The hygiene promotion session will be specifically focusing on prevention of COVID-19.

NRC will ensure that the cash-based programming under this component will follow both NRC’s Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs) and the Cash and Voucher Working Group’s (CVWG) recommendations on cash delivery mechanisms.
Emergency health and nutrition assistance to IDPs and underserved population in Faryab province In the proposed project, Save the Children will implement integrated health and nutrition interventions in four hard to reach districts of Faryab province (Kohistan, Qaysar, Dawlat Abad and Shirin Tagab). Save the Children proposes to undertake the following key interventions: 

Health: Establish four emergency mobile health teams in Kohistan, Qaysar, Dawlat Abad and Shirin Tagab districts (one in each district) to provide primary and reproductive health, and psychosocial support services to IDPs, conflict-affected and underserved host communities with the particular focus on women and girls.  

Nutrition: Provide outpatient services for the management of severely and moderately acute malnourished (OPD-SAM and OPD-MAM) boys and girls (six to 59 months),  management of acutely malnourished pregnant and lactating women (PLW), and provision of  infant and young child feeding in emergency (IYCF-E) services through four integrated emergency mobile teams (same teams with health) in Kohistan, Qaysar, Dawlat Abad and Shirin Tagab districts. To build resilience of vulnerable groups at  borderline of acute malnutrition, children at risk of malnutrition with MUAC gt12.5 - lt13.5 will be targeted for integrated IYCF-E response. 
The proposed four districts are amongst the hard to reach districts identified by the Humanitarian Access Group (HAG). This project is designed in line with the health and nutrition clusters strategic priorities, and is based on a rapid needs assessment conducted by Save the Children. The project will focus on addressing the acute humanitarian needs in these four hard to reach districts. 
The proposed action will target 36,000 direct beneficiaries including 18,016 women and girls. The timeline for the action is from 1 May 2020 until 30 April 2021. Save the Children will implement this project in coordination with all relevant actors at the national, provincial and community levels to ensure effective and timely management of the proposed interventions.
Psychosocial Assistance  Support Services (PASS) War Child Canada will provide psychosocial support to the beneficiaries who have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. During the 6 months proposed duration of this project, War Child Canada will provide services to 6,336 individuals in Qarabagh, Dehsabz, Bagrami, and district 5th of Kabul Province. The major activities will include 1) Provision of high-quality PSS support through experienced PSS counsellors, 2) Improve and adjust the already developed PSS tools, IEC materials, and PSS delivery guidelines for PSS counsellors, 3) Establish coordination and collaborative partnership with key stakeholders, 4) Identify vulnerable population under stress and offer home-based PSS, 5) Establish monitoring and evidence-based data system, and 6) Establish SOPs for referral and establish referral linkages with service providers. All these activities are done to ensure the project is meeting the goal which is "To ensure well-being and protection of vulnerable women, men, boys and adolescent girls through provision of quality psychosocial support, and multi-sectoral services in communities of Kabul Province". This will strengthen the protection mechanisms at the community level in all the target districts of Kabul to address the threats of Covid-19 outbreak.
Supporting vulnerable girls and boys regain access to education due to COVID-19-related school closures in Jawzjan, Afghanistan. Since March 2020, due to COVID-19, Afghanistan has closed its schools for five months leaving 7.5 million children with no access to education. Alternative modalities were put in place to provide education to children, including distance education (through television, radio), self-learning and small group learning but these relied heavily on access to electricity and/or technology, leaving the most vulnerable behind. With the rate of new cases decreasing, the Ministry of Education has started to allow schools to reopen as long as they meet minimum requirements to allow a safe return to learning, including comprehensive protocols and strict hygiene measures to prevent the transmission of COVID- 19. In response to this, ACTED will provide support to 80 schools and 13 CBCs in Mingajik, Aqcha and Fayzabad districts of Jawzjan, reaching 43,174 women, men, boys and girls.

The response will provide 58 primary and secondary schools and 13 CBCs with access to handwashing stations with soap and potable water plus WASH and disinfection kits. In addition, ACTED will provide 43,174 boy and girl students, women and men teachers with two washable, reusable facemasks each across 80 schools and 13 CBCs.

As CBE and schools are unlikely to be able to open straightaway in every case, ACTED will also provide 5,736 vulnerable Grade 1-3 children with self-learning materials so they are able to regain access to education as quickly as possible.
Increasing community resilience against Covid-19 and reducing its effects among the most vulnerable Afghan communities in Kandahar, Nimroz, and Herat Provinces This project seeks to decrease the mortality and morbidity of Covid-19 among IDP, returnee, and host communities for people with disabilities and the most vulnerable in Herat, Kandahar, and Nimroz. It will do this by 1) Support risk communication interventions to help ensure that clear communication messaging on COVID-19 is widely available to all communities through vehicle messaging, billboards, radio spots, accessible IEC materials, SMS and other identified means, 2) Providing mental health support to affected communities through a helpline as well as providing mental health containment kits to identified families, and conducting an awareness campaign about mental health issues and Covid-19, 3) Support health facilities with both infection prevention and control materials as well as with psychosocial support and risk awareness to health facility staff For this action, gender balanced teams will be working in two districts in Herat, one district in Nimroz, and two districts in Kandahar. The action will be implemented in close coordination with other actors providing health services, as well as with other actors providing basic health and protection services in the project locations through a referral mechanism. The technical teams are supported by the Project Officer and the Data base officer within each base. The action targets health facility staff as well as at risk populations, including the women, men, girls and boys at risk of exclusion, people with disabilities, people with injuries, people experiencing psychosocial distress or mental health issues– due to Covid-19, who are often invisible to mainstream relief organizations due to the specificity of their needs. The above interventions are aimed at reducing the vulnerability of communities to Covid-19, and increasing the capacity to respond whilst reinforcing positive coping mechanisms
Housing, Land and Property (HLP) rights for vulnerable persons in Northern Afghanistan In a context of increasing and protracted displacement where vulnerable persons are not able to access land or find adequate housing, Housing, Land and Property (HLP) rights must be safeguarded.  Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), returnees and host communities must be empowered and supported to claim and secure HLP rights. 

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) through its Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) programme aims to promote access to rights through emergency legal support and advocacy to vulnerable populations. This will be done primarily through the provision of legal awareness, counselling and legal assistance on HLP and related rights, including the right to civil documentation. This is particularly important as inaccurate information on entitlements during this volatile period can exacerbate existing challenges and frustrate displacement-affected persons leading to negative coping mechanisms.

Furthermore, NRC will provide capacity building for duty bearers to improve services and promote accountability within the formal and informal justice system, as well as within the administrative departments. 

The proposed action will be implemented over a twelve-months period in Northern Afghanistan, precisely in Faryab, Kunduz and Balkh Provinces. HLP needs in these provinces are high and few humanitarian partners are present to provide a response.  These are areas with high numbers of displaced and returning Afghans and different drivers of displacement, and where the humanitarian response is currently unable to adequately address the HLP needs.
Protection Monitoring and Referrals in Central and Western Regions of Afghanistan DRC will implement this project in a number of locations in Central Region - Ghazni, Kapisa, Maidan Wardak, Parwan and in Herat and Farah in Western Region. Protection Monitoring activities will be undertaken using the Afghanistan Protection Cluster's newly developed harmonised protection monitoring tools to produce evidence-based, timely and high quality reports, to inform response to protection concerns, to inform advocacy efforts and to contribute to improved information on protection issues in the targeted locations. DRC will carry out regular service mapping of specialised service providers in the same locations being targeted for the protection monitoring activity. The service mapping will facilitate targeted support for referrals of individuals identified through the protection monitoring activities with specific identified needs. DRC will carry out follow up of the referrals and will ensure post implementation monitoring is carried out to review the quality and effectiveness of the referral process.
Lifesaving intervention for multiple shock affected population at risk of hunger and malnutrition through cash for food distribution in Ghor Province, Afghanistan The proposed action’s objective is to improve the food security status of multiple-shock-affected population and mitigate their risk to face malnutrition through cash for food assistance during the harsh winter and lean season in Dawlatyar and Lal Wa Sarjangal districts of Ghor Province.

Ghor Province is, according to all the assessments done in Afghanistan (HNO/HRP 2020, SFSA, IPC, FEWSNET) one of the most affected provinces in Afghanistan in terms of food insecurity. Mostly mountainous with limited arable land, Ghor has the highest deficit of wheat in the country. This province has the history of being classified in Emergency Phase (IPC Phase 4) during the past years. As of IPC September 2020 Analysis, Ghor province had 25% of its population in IPC 4 and 35% of its population in IPC 3.

COVID-19 also has had an impact on this already fragile province. Unusually high food prices linked to border closures and panic buying, caused by COVID-19, further exacerbated food access of households already living below the poverty line. Food commodity prices have increased to between 10% and 20% (IPC analysis April-November 2020 and WFP market monitoring 2019-2020). Moreover, it is expected that the food security situation in Ghor will further deteriorate with the arrival of the winter. As the harvest season is over, labor and job opportunities will decrease and the purchasing power of the local population will drastically drop. This along with the peak in food prices due to the heavy snowfall blocking the roads will severely limit the access to diversified food during the harsh months of winter. 

To address the emergency food insecurity situation in Ghor Province, AAH will deliver cash for food of the equivalent of 4 half rations for 17,000 individuals. These 17,000 individuals will be provided with unrestricted and unconditional cash. However, strong sensitization will be done by AAH teams before and during the distributions about food diversity to encourage households to spend their cash on diversified and highly nutritious food. This will prevent the households to engage in negative coping strategies that may result in loss of essential livelihood assets and therefore, increase their food consumption and dietary diversity. 

The expected impact of this cash-based intervention is that vulnerable households do not exhaust their harvest during the lean season and have uninterrupted access to diversified food during the upcoming harsh months of winter, avoiding a further deterioration of their food security status. 

This will be a six-month project, from 1st of December 2020 until 31st of May 2021, just before the start of the harvest in Ghor Province.
Provision of trauma care through establishing first aid trauma posts (FATPs)  to people in conflict affected districts in Herat province. AADA is a non-political, non-profit, and independent national organization currently implementing BPHS and EPHS in Nangarhar and Ghazni and likewise BPHS in Herat province. AADA has wide range of experience in managing more than 17 humanitarian response projects funded by CHF/AHF, WHO, WFP and UNFPA over the past five years. 
The aim of the action is to support the existing three BHCs and one Health Sub-Center in Shindand, Pahstoon Kot, Gulran, and Khoshk-e- Robat Sangi districts of Herat in providing trauma care services to 79,107 people living in active conflict prone areas. The action will establish four fully functional First Aid Trauma Posts (FATPs) and four Rapid Response Teams (RRT) for conducting triage, transportation/referrals and build the capacity of the medical professionals in trauma initial management and basics of health response to Gender Based Violence (GBV) survivors and Psychosocial Support Services (PSS).
The planned Heath Facilities (HFs) existing infrastructure will be enhanced through the construction of additional two rooms (one for male and one for female) to make them appropriately functional as FATPs. 
All FATPs will be equipped with medical and non-medical equipment and vehicles will be rented and equipped to serve as RRTs ambulances linked to four BHCs where the FATPs are established to ensure timely evacuation of war casualties from frontline to FATPs, then to nearest hospitals. 
FATPs will be staffed with two male and one female health professional (midwife/nurse) and RRT with one male nurse and will be trained on Basic Life Support (BLS) package, GBV response protocol and psychosocial counseling to provide trauma care, GBV cases initial management (identification, referrals and follow up) and counseling services to the population in needs to the target areas. To ensure project sustainability at least two BPHS paid staff (male and female) in each targeted HF will be trained on the above subjects to continue services delivery after the project conclusion. 
The project implementation will be carried out in close coordination with the Provincial Public Health Directorate (PPHD), regional health cluster, and other stakeholders including communities and groups involved in different locations in the province.
WASH response to COVID-19 Pandemic in Afghanistan The project aims to address critical lifesaving WASH services and supplies needs of 77,000 returnees, people displaced in formal/informal Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) sites and Informal settlements on the fringes of urban areas in 19 high risk districts identified by the Government of Afghanistan’s multi-sector response plan for the COVID-19 pandemic. The programme target area was identified and established based on the recent IOM-led Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) report and OCHA update report on Population Movements (January to December 2019). UNICEF will target up to 19 districts (in 10 provinces) among the 41 recommended by the WASH Cluster for the COVID-19 response, while also having continuous consultations with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and WHO on the dynamic nature of disease transmission, and making the necessary and relevant adjustments to the WASH preventive response as needed.

The proposed action will promote healthy hygienic behavior through the effective use of critical WASH services and supplies. It will target returnees from Iran and Pakistan and displaced families, especially young children, women, girls, boys, the elderly and the disabled living in the IDP camps as well as informal sites and urban slums in up to 19 high risk districts. Since there are many IDPs settled in host communities and they are also in a continuous move to find the most appropriate and secure areas for their settlement, the exact number of IDPs living in host communities is constantly changing. For this reason, UNICEF will undertake a quick assessment of population numbers and site selection in close consultation with concerned government ministries and local authorities. UNICEF, as the agency of last resort for the provision of WASH services, will coordinate the response efforts, and avoid any chance of duplication to ensure an effective and efficient use the scarce resources allocated for the COVID-19 response.

This proposal is based on the WASH cluster strategy note for AHF 2nd Reserve Allocation (RA) 2020 and allocation strategy for Afghanistan and is in accordance with the national WASH cluster strategy, targets and priorities for the revised Afghanistan 2018-2021 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).
Community-based Child Protection  for the most  vulnerable populations in Nangarhar,  Laghman and Kunar Provinces – Ijtema- 4 Since Dec. 2015, Tdh had been implementing several projects with CHF funding in Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces. Since the needs of the population remain high and since the approach of former projects proved to be effective, Tdh proposes to embark on a new project for highly affected IDPs, returnees, returned IDPs and conflict affected population of the provinces Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman. The project intends to strengthen the resilience of these groups by reducing vulnerabilities through access to information on CP, by addressing specific needs through community delivered life-saving psycho-social services,  the establishment of a case management system (protection) and by strengthening protection mechanisms through Community Based Child Protection Committees (CBCPC) and volunteers. These activities will be delivered to in order to improve the coping mechanism of children and to detect most vulnerable children in need of further assistance.  The activities will be implemented by expert Tdh social worker and social animator in the mention district which mention below.  This 12-months project (from 1st May 2020 to 30th April 2021 will be implemented in the Eastern provinces as follows: 
- In Nangarhar: Mohmandara district (4 villages), Durbaba district (4 villages), Bati Kot district (4 villages), Chaparhar district (4 villages),- Kunar: Norgal district (4 villages) Khas Kunar district (4 villages), Laghman: Qarghayi district (4villages) and Mehtarlam district(4 villages). 
The data collected during the planned IJTEMA4 activities will be shared with the clusters and OCHA regularly and, when relevant, will be shared with other partners for further support for the intervention area. The sustainability and relevancy of the proposed project will be reinforced by integrating lessons learned and impact analysis based on the assessment report. Tdh will establish CFSs for the children who are at risk of violence in four provinces in the east region of the country focus most on the hard to reach district.
Winterization Assistance for vulnerable populations in Ghazni, Kabul, Panjshir, and Wardak DRC is uniquely positioned to provide seasonal winterization support to the most vulnerable households, including newly shock affected households as a priority. Additionally, DRC aims to build upon the already planned assistance to expand its winterization coverage in the Category 1 provinces of Ghazni, Kabul, Panjsher, and Wardak. All proposed provinces are susceptible to extreme cold temperatures, high snowfall, and early onset of winter. As per ES/NFI cluster targets for winterization, the majority of people in need are host community necessitating a needs- not status based targeting criteria. Through the AHF 5th Reserve Allocation, DRC will aim to expand its winterization targets, adding an additional 1,250 households. Assistance will be provided through unconditional, unrestricted cash (200 USD, 15,500 AFN) in accordance with ES/NFI cluster standards. 

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, DRC has an accountability framework as part of its action plan to comply with core humanitarian standards (CHS) that will be used as a benchmark to guide its quality implementation along with ES/NFI cluster guidelines. This project will have a direct impact on reducing protection risks associated with harmful coping mechanisms, including child protection risks, in IDP settlements and displacement areas. DRC 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.