Gender sensitive and GBV mitigated Multisector Cash and Humanitarian Assistance in Mon, Southern Shan and Kayah State In partnership with Good Shepherd Myanmar Foundation (GSMF), Maw Du Klar Mae Social Development Association (MSDA), Women’s Development Center (WDC), and Nway Htwe Thaw Yin Khwin (NHTYK) and their network of CSOs, CARE proposes a 9-month project to provide integrated assistance across 6 townships in south-east Myanmar’s southern Shan, Kayah and Mon states. CARE and 4 partners will provide a gender sensitive and GBV mitigated multi-sectoral package of assistance for specific prioritized areas identified in each of the townships. 

CARE’s proposed intervention will provide immediate lifesaving multipurpose cash and basic needs assistance (MPCA), WASH, Shelter/NFI and Protection to 8,600 people (3,348 women, 2,995 men, 1,148 boys and 1,109 girls, including 1,118 people with disabilities (PWD)) in southern Shan, Kayah and Mon states. The project focuses on locally led humanitarian assistance implemented through women-led (GSMF and WDC) and women's rights organizations (NHTYK and MSDA). An integrated multi-sectoral support approach will be used to reach vulnerable women, girls, boys and men disbursed across small, scattered hard-to-reach and under-served informal IDP camps and host communities that cover a large geographic area. Support for PWD, women headed households, pregnant and lactating women will be prioritized. Proposed activities align with CARE’s standardized emergency response approach which is in line with the Food Security, WASH, Shelter/NFI and Protection cluster (GBV sub-cluster) priorities and the 2022 HRP.

CARE and 4 partners will provide multipurpose cash for food and basic needs as well as livelihoods support activities in Kyaikhto, Bilin and Thaton of Mon State, Demoso and Hpruso of Kayah State and Pekon township of southern Shan State. The multipurpose cash assistance will cover food security, basic needs, shelter/NFI and WASH sector needs in line with national Cash Working Group (CWG) recommendations and Survival Minimum Expenditure Basket (SMEB) estimated costs. In the MPCA package, a 65% food ration was included as a proportion of the package. 

To meet the needs of Shelter/NFI, CARE and partners will provide temporary shelter items (tarpaulin), maintenance or replacing existing shelter (roofing) and NFI provision, such as family solar lanterns for lighting, which enhances protection, security and dignity. In the MPCA package, 10% shelter and 21% NFI and WASH was included as a proportion of the package. 

To meet WASH needs, CARE and partners will provide hygiene kits, including hygiene promotion and menstrual hygiene, install/rehabilitate gender appropriate latrines and bathing facilities in displacement sites/locations. All distributions of MPCA and other items will include mine risk awareness sessions to raise awareness of the increasing risks associated with mines and unexploded ordinances (UXO).

CARE and partners will support the GBV sub-sector under the Protection cluster by providing GBV awareness raising, including GBV mitigation and action planning for the project activities and community dialogue tools to engage community-based power holders, as well as running women and girl friendly spaces that will provide psychosocial and referral support and cash assistance for protection. CARE and partners will also provide conditional cash transfer support for livelihood activities for extremely vulnerable women-headed households. 

CARE will manage the overall implementation and reporting of the project and provide the training for the capacity strengthening of local implementation partners.