Provision of life saving trauma care and referral services with protection measures in in conflict affected areas in Kunduz Province Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (JUH/Johanniter) will be implementing the project in Kunduz Province with its sub-implementing partner Organization for Health Promotion amp Management (OHPM). The project region consists of the hard to reach and conflict prone districts of Dashti Archi, Chardara, Qalaizal and Imam Sahib in Kunduz Province. The project addresses the humanitarian needs of the un-reached communities including IDPs, women, children and persons with special needs in both health and protection sector. This includes psycho social care services for trauma victims/ persons with special needs as well as their referrals and rehabilitation. Johanniter will be cooperating with its strategic partner OHPM to implement the project. OHPM is the BPHS (Basic Package of Health Services) implementing agency in Kunduz and has access to all the 72 health facilities in the province. Johanniter is also the twinning programme partner of OHPM and will provide technical and managerial input for the project implementation, including monitoring and reporting. As the BPHS implementer OHPM has access to remote locations for field implementation of First Aid Trauma Posts (FATPs), linking protection elements to increase access to the affected population in the catchment, psycho-social care support to the victims, specifically women and children, and people with special needs, referrals to clinical and surgical care, referrals to rehabilitative care for people with special needs (PSN) for prosthetics and orthotics care. OHPM as BPHS partner is the added value to the project as the FATPs and the activities are linked with existing health facilities, which will continue to serve trauma patients even after the completion of the project.
The project will cover a population of 97,633 (38,610 women, 39,496 men, 9,613 girls (lt5 yrs) and 9,913 (lt5yrs) boys) from four districts, through below proposed interventions (a) health services through 1) Four FATPs and Rapid Response Teams (RRT) which are integrated into BPHS health facilities. RRTs are placed at each of the FATPs, with one ambulance each to stabilize and evacuate casualties from the area of fighting/ front line to the nearby FATP or a higher grade health facility based on initial assessment (b) The FATPs will be equipped with physio-therapy (PT) staff both male and female to provide PT services to PSNs and follow-up cases for post-surgery cases (c) Establish Women and Child Friendly Spaces (WCFS) in the FATP buildings to ensure safe places for women and children during active fighting and for psycho-social counselling by qualified and trained female counselors (d) The FATPs/ WCFS will have psycho-social counsellors to provide services for counselling trauma cases including gender based violence victims and children in crisis (due to conflict and displacement) for clinical case management and refer them higher level referral sites. The access mobiliser will provide support to WCFS and FATPs in reaching out to remote and insecure locations and negotiate access to the clinics by working with community structures like Shuras.  JUH will coordinate with mandated institutions like UNAMA, UNMAS, ACBAR to provide trainings on IHL and informal M/ERW  trainings and the health facility staff in FATPs will carry out awareness trainings to the community on IHL and M/ERW.
The action aimed to address strategic objectives of the Humanitarian Response Plan 2018-21(HRP), Health and Protection Clusters objectives. The proposed FATPs and WCFS will have adequate staff with proper gender balance. All the recruited staff will undergo initial basic trainings as per the MoPH guidelines and requirement for the project. The project duration is for one year with proposed start date 15 February 2018 and has one month inception phase. JUH country office will be providing support to the field team and the sub-implementing partner. JUH will coordinate with clusters in Kabul and Kunduz for effective implementation of the p