Emergency food security support to the most vulnerable households in the Middle Area and Khan Yunis governorates of the Gaza strip ltpgt


lt/pgtltp style="" class=""gtThis project aims at ensuring
food security for the most vulnerable households (HH) in the Middle Area, Khan
Yunis and Rafah governorates of the Gaza strip. ACTED and the Agricultural Development Association (PARC) propose an intervention to respond to
immediate critical needs in Gaza through the provision of food e-vouchers. Activities
were designed to respond to outstanding needs and requests for assistance,
which will be validated by a rapid verification of needs of prioritized HHs at
the onset of the project. lt/pgt

ltp style="" class=""gt650 highly vulnerable
HHs will benefit from the intervention. ACTED and PARC will
build on their joint technical expertise and strong acceptance within target
communities due to long-standing field presence to implement the following
activity: ACTED and PARC will provide food e-vouchers to 650 HHs with each HH
receiving in total 4 e-vouchers of 342 ILS each, over a period of 4 months, as
per Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) and Gaza Cash Working Group’s (CWG)
recommendations, in order to ensure BNFs can cover basic food needs. As per
guidance from the Gaza CWG, the agreed transfer value for the e-voucher
assistance is in fact 60% of the food basket of the Survival Minimum
Expenditure Basket (SMEB), which equates to 342 ILS per voucher. ACTED will oversee
the distribution of e-vouchers to 370 HHs while PARC will be in charge of
providing the e-vouchers to 280 HHs. lt/pgt

ltp style="" class="MsoNormal"gtThis action is aligned with
the 2023 1st Standard Allocation 3rd objective “Address vulnerable households’
multiple immediate essential needs and improve access to life-saving services
through strengthening food security, sustaining livelihoods and providing MPCA”, specifically the FSS priority objective 1.2. “Provision of emergency food
assistance and recovery to the most vulnerable households through multiple
distribution modalities.” It seeks to implement the prioritized activity “1.2.1
Provision of food assistance and cash-based interventions to the most
vulnerable households”. This action was approved by the Food Security
Sector (FSS) under the HRP 2023 (HPSE23-FSC-193796-1). lt/pgt

ltp style="" class="MsoNormal"gtACTED has been engaging with
relevant actors to inform program design for this action, through
close cooperation with the FSS and the Disability Working Group. Similarly, to
ensure that relevant institutions have an understanding as to the project and to
ensure their buy-in and support, Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) has been
consulted during the design of the project and to obtain a list of priority
acutely vulnerable HHs requiring assistance. MoSD will be informed of all HHs
who receive assistance under this project. Other active stakeholders have also
been consulted about their ongoing and planned interventions to ensure the
avoidance of duplication and to foster complementarity with these actions. This
includes Oxfam, which will conduct e-vouchers distribution and will target the
Rafah governorate. Further coordination will be conducted during the
implementation phase to avoid duplication of assistance. lt/pgt

ltp style="" class=""gtACTED will rely on
its Committee Based Protection Committees’ (CBPCs) existing capacity to
implement activities throughout the project, reaching the BNF, and supporting
ACTED’s Complaint and Response Mechanism (CRM), including the sharing of key
PSEA messages. These 2 CBPCs that were already established under former
HF-funded projects, operate in the 2 targeted governorates. This intervention
is scalable in order to reach more vulnerable HHs, based on the FSS’s
priorities and availability of funds.lt/pgt

ltpgtThe project will be supported by the
mainstreaming of an Integrated Protection Approach (IPA), with specific focus
on the most vulnerable groups, including women, girls, boys, PwDs and older
people, and of gender principles to ensure outputs and results equally benefit
both sexes. Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) will be core to the
proposed Action by giving account to, taking account of, and being held to
account by affected populations.ltbrgtlt/pgt



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